1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
8 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
9 * Add extensions download from external repositories
10 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
11 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
14 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
15 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
16 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
17 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
19 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
20 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
23 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
24 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
25 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
26 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
27 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
28 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
29 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
30 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
31 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
32 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
33 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
34 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
35 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
36 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
37 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
38 * New jpeg image decoder
39 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
40 * New SVG image decoder
41 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
42 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
43 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
46 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
47 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
48 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
49 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
50 * New png image encoder using libpng
53 * New CAF format module
54 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
55 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
56 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
57 synchronization and tracks exclusion
58 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
59 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
62 * Basic support for WebVTT
63 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
64 * Support HDPR TS files
65 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
66 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
67 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
68 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
69 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
70 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
71 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
72 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
73 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
74 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
75 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
76 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
77 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
80 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
81 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
83 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
86 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
87 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
88 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
89 * New Android native window provider module
90 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
91 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
92 * Add mmal based video output
95 * New Oldmovie effect filter
96 * New VHS effect filter
97 * New Freeze effect filter
98 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
99 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
100 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
103 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
104 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
105 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
106 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
107 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
108 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
111 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
112 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
113 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
114 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
115 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
116 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
117 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
118 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
119 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
121 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
122 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
123 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
126 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
127 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
130 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
131 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
134 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
135 * Add record button in Qt menus
136 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
137 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
138 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and MacOS
141 * Fixes for advanced preferences
142 * Option to increase playlist font size
145 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
146 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
147 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
150 * ios video output: use ios2
151 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
152 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
155 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
156 --------------------------------
159 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
162 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
165 * Fix DVD playback regression
166 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
167 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
170 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
171 --------------------------------
174 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
175 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
178 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
179 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
180 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
183 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
184 by updating codec libraries
185 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
186 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
187 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
190 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
191 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
192 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
193 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
196 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
197 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
200 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
201 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
202 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
203 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
204 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
207 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
208 * Fix record file names
211 * Fix minimal size possible on start
212 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
213 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
214 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
215 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
218 * Fix album art display on Windows
221 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
222 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
223 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
224 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
225 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
226 and Simplified Chinese translations
227 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
230 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
231 --------------------------------
234 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
235 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
236 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
237 audio devices on OS X
238 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
239 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
242 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
243 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
246 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
247 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
250 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
253 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
254 * Improve A-B loop control
255 * Fix album art update when changing media
258 * Add a language option in the interface
259 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
260 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
261 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
262 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
263 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
264 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
265 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
268 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
271 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
272 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
273 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
274 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
277 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
278 --------------------------------
281 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
283 * Fix some subtitles track selection
286 * VP9 support in WebM
287 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
288 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
291 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
292 * Support Speex in ogg files
293 * Fix some .mov playlists support
294 * Support Alac in mkv
295 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
296 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
299 * Fix DVB options parsing
300 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
301 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
304 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
305 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
308 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
309 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
312 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
313 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
314 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
315 * Fix play after drag'n drop
316 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
319 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
320 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
323 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
324 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
327 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
328 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
329 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
330 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
331 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
332 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
333 * Improves interface resizings
336 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
337 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
338 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
339 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
340 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
344 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
345 --------------------------------
348 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
349 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
350 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
351 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
352 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
354 3rd party libraries (contrib):
355 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
358 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
359 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
360 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
361 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
362 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
365 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
366 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
370 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
371 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
372 * Support for Ulead DV audio
373 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
374 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
375 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
376 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
377 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
378 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
379 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
380 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
381 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
382 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
385 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
386 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
387 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
390 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
391 remove support for previous OS X releases
392 * Major improvements in DASH support
393 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
394 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
395 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
396 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
397 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
398 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
399 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
400 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
401 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
402 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
403 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
406 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
407 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
408 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
409 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
410 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
411 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
412 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
413 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
414 * Support for more MJPEG streams
415 * Add support for liveleak streams
416 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
417 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
418 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
421 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
422 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
423 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
424 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
425 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
426 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
427 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
428 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
429 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
430 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
431 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
434 * New remapping channel filter
435 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
436 * New VSXu visualization plugin
437 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
438 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
439 * New gain audio filter
442 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
443 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
444 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
445 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
446 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
447 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
448 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
449 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
450 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
453 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
454 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
455 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
456 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
457 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
458 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
459 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
462 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
463 * Options support for AVIO output module
464 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
465 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
466 * Livehttp stream encryption support
467 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
468 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
471 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
474 * configurable password for the HTTP server
475 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
476 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
477 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
478 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
479 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
480 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
481 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
485 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
488 * Add support for multiple video outputs
489 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
491 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
492 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
493 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
494 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
495 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
496 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
497 VLC's internal volume level
498 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
500 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
501 selection and to manage the list of presets
502 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
503 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
504 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
505 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
506 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
507 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
508 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
509 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
510 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
511 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
513 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
514 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
515 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
516 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
517 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
518 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
519 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
520 3rd party applications
521 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
522 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
523 (system-wide settings)
524 * Add support for the Video Title option
525 * Add support for the Boss Key
526 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
527 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
530 * Partial support for Qt5.0
531 * Menus modifications and improvements
532 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
533 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
534 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
535 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
536 * EPG display fixes and improvements
537 * Add SD pixmap sources
538 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
539 * Display playlist total duration
540 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
541 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
542 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
547 * Extend sliders, offsets options
548 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
549 * Numerous fixes and improvements
550 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
553 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
554 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
555 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
556 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
557 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
558 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
559 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
560 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
561 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
562 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
565 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
566 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
567 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
568 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
569 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
570 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
572 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
573 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
574 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
575 * Broken crop video filter
577 * OSD parser and menu
578 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
579 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
580 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
581 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
585 * Update of all translations
588 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
589 --------------------------------
592 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
593 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
596 * Fix modplug security issues
599 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
600 --------------------------------
604 * Fix crash in QTsound
605 * Fix screen mouse file location
606 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
609 * Fix use after free in sgimb
610 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
613 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
616 * Fix interface crashes
617 * Fix autostart playback option
618 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
621 * update Welsh translation
622 * New Kannada translation
625 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
626 --------------------------------
629 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
630 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
634 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
637 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
640 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
643 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
647 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
650 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
653 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
654 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
655 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
658 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
659 --------------------------------
662 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
665 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
668 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
669 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
670 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
671 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
672 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
673 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
676 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
677 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
678 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
679 * 3rd party codecs updates
682 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
683 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
684 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
685 in the advanced preferences panel
686 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
687 * Fix crash within the video output code
688 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
689 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
690 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
691 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
693 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
696 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
699 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
700 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
703 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
706 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
707 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
708 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
709 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
710 Dutch, Danish, translations
711 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
714 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
715 --------------------------------
718 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
721 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
722 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
723 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
726 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
727 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
728 * Fix koreus lua parser
729 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
730 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
731 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
732 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
735 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
736 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
739 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
742 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
743 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
744 * Fix Time counter UI look
745 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
748 * Fix https streaming
751 * Fix audio and video track selection:
752 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
753 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
756 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
757 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
758 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
759 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
760 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
763 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
764 --------------------------------
767 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
768 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
769 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
770 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
771 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
772 during playback on Mac OS X
775 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
776 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
777 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
780 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
781 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
782 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
783 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
784 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
787 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
788 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
789 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
790 * Support Youtube live streams
793 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
796 * Fix media info dialog update
797 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
798 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
799 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
800 * Fix album art display at start
803 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
804 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
805 * Fix menus display and behavior
806 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
807 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
808 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
809 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
810 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
811 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
812 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
815 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
816 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
817 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
818 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
819 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
820 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
821 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
822 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
823 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
826 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
827 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
828 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
829 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
830 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
833 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
834 --------------------------------
837 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
840 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
841 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
844 * Add GateKeeper support
845 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
846 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
847 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
850 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
853 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
854 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
855 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
856 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
857 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
860 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
861 --------------------------------
864 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
865 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
866 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
867 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
868 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
869 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
870 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
871 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
872 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
873 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
874 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
878 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
879 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
880 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
881 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
882 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
883 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
884 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
885 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
886 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
887 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
888 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
889 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
892 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
893 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
895 * Fix MP3 free format support
898 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
899 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
900 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
901 * Fix for DVB channels file support
902 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
905 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
906 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
908 Audio filters and output:
909 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
910 * Fix DirectSound device selection
911 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
912 * Do not apply volume in file output
913 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
914 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
917 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
918 the persistant media library
919 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
920 to the media library or the temporary playlist
921 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
922 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
923 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
924 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
925 press on the Play/Pause button
926 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
927 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
928 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
929 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
930 * Many Fullscreen fixes
931 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
932 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
933 Synchronization panel
934 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
935 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
936 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
937 * Fix crashes on exit
938 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
940 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
941 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
942 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
943 automatically reset on the first launch.
944 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
945 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
946 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
949 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
950 * Fixes for icecast SD
953 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
954 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
955 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
956 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
957 * Fix tags and file names display
958 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
961 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
962 * Fix for key events and focus loss
965 * Fix display of some buttons
966 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
967 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
970 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
971 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
972 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
975 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
976 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
977 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
978 Thai translations update
979 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
982 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
983 --------------------------------
986 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
987 * fix the samba module compilation
988 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
989 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
990 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
991 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
994 * Support for MXPEG files
995 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
996 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
999 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1000 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1001 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1004 * Fix ogm header creation
1007 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1008 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1011 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1012 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1013 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1014 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1017 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1020 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1021 * allow to hide the sidebar
1022 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1023 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1024 * noticebly faster launch time
1025 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1026 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1027 * improve track synchronization panel
1028 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1029 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1032 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1033 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1034 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1035 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1038 * fix for menus display
1039 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1040 * documentation update
1043 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1044 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1047 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1048 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1049 * Update Jamendo selections
1053 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1054 * fix a crash on VLM close
1057 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1058 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1059 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1060 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1063 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1066 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1067 ---------------------------------
1070 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1071 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1072 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1073 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1074 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1075 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1076 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1077 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1078 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1079 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1080 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1081 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1082 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1083 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1084 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1085 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1086 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1087 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1088 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1089 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1090 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1091 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1092 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1093 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1094 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1095 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1097 Important changes for packagers:
1098 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1099 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1100 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1101 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1102 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1103 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1104 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1105 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1106 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1107 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1110 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1111 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1112 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1113 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1114 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1115 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1116 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1119 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1120 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1121 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1122 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1123 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1124 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1125 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1126 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1127 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1128 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1129 * PulseAudio audio input support
1130 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1131 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1132 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1133 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1134 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1135 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1136 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1137 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1140 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1141 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1142 are notably concerned.
1143 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1144 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1145 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1146 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1147 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1148 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1149 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1150 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1151 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1152 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1153 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1154 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1155 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1156 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1157 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1160 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1161 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1162 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1163 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1164 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1165 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1166 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1167 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1168 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1169 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1170 * Improved support of tracker files
1171 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1174 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1175 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1176 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1177 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1178 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1179 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1180 and important cleanups and optimisations
1181 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1182 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1183 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1184 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1185 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1186 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1187 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1188 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1189 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1190 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1191 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1192 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1193 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1194 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1195 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1196 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1197 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1198 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1199 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1200 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1201 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1204 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1205 * New video output for iOS platform
1206 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1207 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1208 * Various vmem improvements
1209 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1210 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1211 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1212 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1213 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1214 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1216 Audio Output and Filters:
1217 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1218 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1219 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1220 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1221 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1222 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1223 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1224 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1225 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1226 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1229 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1230 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1231 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1232 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1233 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1234 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1235 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1236 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1237 * New anti-flickering filter
1238 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1239 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1240 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1241 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1242 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1243 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1244 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1247 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1248 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1249 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1250 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1251 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1252 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1253 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1254 * Major rework of VoD support
1255 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1256 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1257 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1258 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1259 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1260 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1261 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1262 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1263 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1264 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1267 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1268 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1271 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1272 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1273 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1274 list of available audio and video filters
1275 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1276 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1277 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1280 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1281 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1282 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1283 * id3tag: use taglib
1284 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1285 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1286 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1287 * removal of the noise filter
1288 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1289 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1290 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1291 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1294 * Update of translations for most languages.
1295 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1298 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1299 ----------------------------------
1302 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1303 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1306 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1307 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1310 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1311 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1312 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1315 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1318 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1319 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1322 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1325 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1326 ----------------------------------
1329 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1330 including support for OS X Lion
1331 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1332 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1335 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1338 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1339 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1340 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1343 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1346 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1347 ----------------------------------
1350 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1351 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1354 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1355 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1356 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1357 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1358 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1360 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1361 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1362 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1364 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1365 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1368 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1371 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1374 * Fix quitting on Linux
1375 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1379 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1382 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1385 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1386 ---------------------------------
1388 Windows and Mac OS X:
1389 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1392 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1393 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1396 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1399 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1402 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1404 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1405 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1407 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1408 * RTP output and XML export
1409 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1413 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1414 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1415 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1416 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1419 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1420 --------------------------------
1422 Windows and Mac OS X:
1423 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1426 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1429 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1430 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1431 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1432 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1433 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1434 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1437 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1438 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1442 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1443 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1444 * New Luganda Translation
1447 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1448 --------------------------------
1451 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1454 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1455 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1456 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1457 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1460 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1462 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1463 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1464 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1465 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1466 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1467 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1468 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1469 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1471 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1472 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1473 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1474 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1475 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1476 * Configure and build system improvements
1477 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1480 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1481 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1482 * New icelandic translation
1485 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1486 --------------------------------
1489 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1490 #234484 and #260719.
1493 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1494 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1495 and stability reasons
1498 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1502 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1505 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1506 ----------------------------------
1509 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1512 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1513 ---------------------------------
1516 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1517 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1518 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1519 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1522 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1525 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1526 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1527 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1528 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1531 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1532 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1533 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1535 Subtitles and renderer:
1536 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1537 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1538 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1539 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1540 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1543 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1544 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1545 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1546 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1549 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1550 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1552 Miscellaneous fixes:
1553 * KDE device solid actions
1555 * Transcode integer overflow
1556 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1557 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1560 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1561 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1562 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1565 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1566 ----------------------------------
1569 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1573 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1576 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1579 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1580 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1581 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1582 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1585 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1589 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1592 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1595 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1596 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1598 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1602 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1603 * Miscellaneous fixes
1606 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1607 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1608 French and Ukrainian
1609 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1610 * New Asturian translation
1613 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1614 ----------------------------------
1617 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1619 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1622 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1625 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1626 * Various fixes for Windows
1629 * New Armenian translation
1630 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1631 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1634 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1635 --------------------------------
1638 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1639 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1640 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1643 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1644 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1647 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1648 --------------------------------
1650 Access and demuxers:
1651 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1652 * fix for podcasts parsing
1653 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1656 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1657 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1660 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1661 * fix m3u playlists exports
1664 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1667 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1670 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1673 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1676 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1679 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1680 --------------------------------
1683 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1684 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1687 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1688 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1691 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1692 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1693 * fix console output encoding
1695 Interface and extensions:
1696 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1697 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1700 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1701 --------------------------------
1704 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1705 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1706 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1707 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1708 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1709 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1710 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1711 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1712 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1713 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1714 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1715 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1716 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1717 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1718 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1719 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1723 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1724 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1725 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1726 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1727 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1730 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1733 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1734 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1735 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1739 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1742 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1743 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1744 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1747 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1748 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1749 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1750 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1753 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1754 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1757 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1758 --------------------------------
1760 Important changes for users:
1761 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1762 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1764 Important changes for packagers:
1765 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1766 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1767 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1768 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1769 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1771 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1773 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1774 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1775 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1776 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1777 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1780 * Support for the sftp protocol
1781 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1782 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1783 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1784 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1785 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1788 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1789 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1790 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1792 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1793 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1794 * Invmem module improvements
1795 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1796 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1797 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1798 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1799 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1800 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1801 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1802 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1803 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1804 * Support for VP8 codec
1805 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1808 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1809 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1810 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1811 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1812 * Various EGP improvements
1813 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1814 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1817 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1818 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1819 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1820 * Podcast images are now displayed
1823 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1824 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1825 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1826 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1827 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1828 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1829 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1830 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1831 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1832 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1833 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1836 * New content extensions lua framework
1839 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1840 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1841 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1842 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1843 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1844 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1845 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1848 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1849 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1850 * Service discovery based on libudev
1851 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1854 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1855 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1856 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1857 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1858 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1859 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1860 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1863 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1864 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1865 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1868 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1870 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1871 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1874 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1877 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1878 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1879 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1880 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1881 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1882 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1883 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1886 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1887 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1890 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1891 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1892 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1896 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1897 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1898 * Improved Solaris port
1901 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1902 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1905 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1906 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1907 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1908 * transrate: broken since too long
1909 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1910 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1911 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1912 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1913 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1914 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1915 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1916 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1917 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1918 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1919 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1920 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1921 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1922 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1925 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1926 --------------------------------
1929 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1931 Decoders/Packetizers:
1932 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1935 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1936 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1937 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1938 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1939 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1942 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1943 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1946 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1947 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1950 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1951 and Walloon translations updated
1952 * Sinhala translation started
1955 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1956 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1959 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1960 --------------------------------
1963 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1964 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1967 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1970 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1971 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1974 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1975 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1976 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1977 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1980 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1981 --------------------------------
1984 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1985 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1988 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1989 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1992 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1993 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1996 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1999 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2000 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2003 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2004 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2007 * New Walloon translation
2008 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2011 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2012 --------------------------------
2015 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2016 regressions in most popular drivers
2017 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2020 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2021 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2022 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2025 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2026 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2029 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2030 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2031 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2032 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2033 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2036 * New udev module for linux
2039 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2042 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2045 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2046 --------------------------------
2049 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2050 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2051 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2054 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2055 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2058 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2059 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2062 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2065 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2066 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2067 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2068 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2071 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2072 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2073 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2074 - no support for Goom and SDL
2075 - limited text rendering support
2076 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2079 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2080 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2081 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2082 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2083 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2084 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2085 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2086 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2087 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2091 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2094 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2097 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2098 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2099 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2100 Arabic and French translation updates
2103 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2104 --------------------------------
2107 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2108 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2109 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2110 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2111 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2112 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2115 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2116 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2117 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2120 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2121 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2122 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2125 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2128 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2129 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2132 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2133 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2134 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2135 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2136 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2137 * Fix various crashes
2140 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2142 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2146 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2147 ---------------------------------
2151 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2152 See 'Access:' for more info.
2153 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2156 * Instantaneous pausing
2157 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2158 * Finer speed control
2159 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2160 * Timeshift for most medias
2161 * RTSP trickplay support
2162 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2165 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2166 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2167 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2168 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2169 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2170 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2171 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2172 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2173 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2174 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2177 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2178 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2179 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2180 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2181 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2182 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2183 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2186 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2187 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2190 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2191 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2192 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2193 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2194 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2195 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2196 * DVB scanning on linux
2197 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2198 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2199 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2200 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2201 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2202 * MTP device access on Unix
2203 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2204 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2207 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2208 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2209 Windows and Mac OS X.
2212 * Export the playlist in HTML
2213 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2214 * Better metadata handling and reading
2216 Linux/Windows interface:
2217 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2218 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2219 * Recently played items list
2220 * Interface toolbar customizations
2221 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2222 - More menus actions
2223 - Finer speed slider
2224 - Improvements on many dialogs
2225 - New dialog for plugins listing
2226 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2227 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2228 * Better integration in GTK environments
2231 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2232 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2233 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2234 * Additional usability improvements
2237 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2238 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2239 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2240 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2241 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2244 * New Maemo port with:
2245 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2246 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2249 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2252 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2253 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2254 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2255 * Support for latest iSight models
2258 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2259 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2262 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2263 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2264 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2265 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2266 The old image video output has been removed.
2267 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2268 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2271 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2279 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2280 --------------------------------------
2286 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2287 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2288 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2289 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2290 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2291 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2292 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2294 Various fixes to the following modules:
2297 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2298 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2299 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2301 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2306 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2307 ---------------------------------
2310 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2311 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2314 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2315 ---------------------------------
2318 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2321 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2324 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2325 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2326 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2327 main controller window.
2328 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2331 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2336 * Updates of other localizations
2339 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2340 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2341 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2342 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2343 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2346 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2347 ---------------------------------
2350 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2352 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2355 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2356 --------------------------------
2361 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2362 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2365 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2366 --------------------------------
2368 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2369 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2372 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2375 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2376 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2379 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2380 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2383 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2384 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2385 * Various fixed in playlist
2388 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2391 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2394 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2395 ------------------------------------
2397 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2398 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2401 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2402 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2403 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2406 * Stability fix for the video output.
2409 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2410 --------------------------------
2413 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2414 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2415 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2416 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2417 * Fixed update system bugs
2418 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2421 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2422 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2423 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2424 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2425 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2426 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2427 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2428 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2429 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2430 modern Mac OS X versions
2433 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2434 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2436 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2437 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2440 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2441 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2442 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2443 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2444 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2445 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2448 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2449 --------------------------------
2451 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2452 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2453 * Multiple bugfixes.
2456 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2457 --------------------------------
2459 * Multiple bug fixes.
2462 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2463 ---------------------------------
2467 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2468 recent to work correctly
2469 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2470 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2471 edit the ".hosts" file.
2472 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2473 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2474 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2475 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2476 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2477 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2478 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2479 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2480 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2481 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2482 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2483 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2484 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2485 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2486 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2487 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2488 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2489 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2490 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2491 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2492 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2493 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2494 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2495 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2496 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2497 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2498 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2499 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2500 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2501 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2502 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2503 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2504 and postproc modules.
2505 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2506 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2507 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2508 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2510 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2511 filter. For example:
2512 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2513 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2515 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2516 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2522 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2524 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2525 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2528 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2529 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2531 * Shoutcast TV listings
2532 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2534 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2535 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2537 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2540 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2541 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2542 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2543 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2544 * JACK audio input support
2545 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2546 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2547 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2548 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2549 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2550 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2551 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2552 (available as a separate download).
2553 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2554 * RTMP input support
2555 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2556 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2557 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2559 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2560 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2563 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2564 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2565 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2566 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2568 * APEv1/2 tags support
2569 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2570 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2572 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2573 * TiVo Series 2 support
2574 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2579 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2580 * Flash Screen Video support
2581 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2582 * DosBox Capture support
2583 * Karl Morton's Video support
2584 * limited atrac3 support
2586 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2587 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2588 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2589 * H.264 PAFF support
2590 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2591 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2592 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2593 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2594 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2597 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2598 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2599 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2600 * AQTitle subtitles support
2601 * MKV USF subtitles support
2602 * HTML-based subtitles support
2603 * MPSub subtitles support
2604 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2605 * MPL2 subtitles support
2606 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2607 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2608 * Realtext subtitle support
2609 * DKS subtitle support
2610 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2611 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2614 * Flash Screen Video support
2615 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2617 Video outputs and filters:
2618 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2619 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2620 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2621 * New puzzle video output filter
2622 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2623 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2625 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2626 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2627 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2628 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2629 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2630 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2631 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2632 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2633 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2634 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2635 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2636 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2637 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2638 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2640 Audio outputs and filters:
2641 * Replay gain support
2642 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2643 new scaletempo audio filter)
2644 * New spatializer audio filter
2645 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2648 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2649 * New RTP payload formats:
2650 * Speex voice audio codec
2651 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2652 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2653 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2654 * DCCP transport for RTP
2655 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2660 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2661 end-user suitable way.
2662 * Improved user interaction
2663 * Improved mouse gestures
2664 * Vastly improved Update checker
2665 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2667 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2668 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2670 * Improved video output features
2671 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2672 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2673 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2674 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2675 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2677 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2678 if libncursesw is available.
2679 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2680 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2681 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2683 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2684 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2685 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2686 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2687 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2688 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2689 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2690 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2693 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2694 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2695 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2698 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2699 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2700 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2701 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2702 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2703 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2706 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2707 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2717 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2718 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2719 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2722 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2723 ----------------------------------
2726 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2729 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2730 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2731 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2732 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2733 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2734 * Updated Polish translation
2737 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2738 ----------------------------------
2741 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2742 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2743 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2746 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2747 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2748 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2749 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2750 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2751 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2752 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2753 to an unexpected application termination
2754 * New Serbian translation
2755 * Updated Romanian translation
2758 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2759 ----------------------------------
2762 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2763 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2764 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2765 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2766 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2767 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2768 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2769 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2772 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2773 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2774 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2775 * Fixed AAC resampling
2776 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2777 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2780 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2781 ----------------------------------
2784 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2785 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2786 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2787 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2788 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2791 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2792 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2793 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2794 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2795 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2798 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2799 ----------------------------------
2802 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2803 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2806 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2807 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2808 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2809 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2811 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2815 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2818 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2821 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2824 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2827 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2828 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2829 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2830 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2831 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2833 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2834 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2835 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2836 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2839 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2842 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2843 ----------------------------------
2846 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2847 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2848 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2850 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2851 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2853 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2854 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2857 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2859 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2860 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2861 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2862 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2863 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2864 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2865 two different movies
2866 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2867 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2868 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2871 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2874 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2875 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2876 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2877 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2880 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2881 ----------------------------------
2883 Various bugfixes, notably:
2884 * Windows Vista compatibility
2885 * Cropping in Direct3D
2886 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2887 * RSS filter string overflow
2889 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2891 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2892 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2895 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2896 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2899 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2902 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2905 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2908 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2909 ----------------------------------
2911 Various bugfixes, notably:
2912 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2913 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2914 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2915 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2916 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2917 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2920 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2921 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2924 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2926 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2927 * Diverse usability improvements
2928 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2929 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2930 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2933 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2934 ---------------------------------
2936 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2937 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2940 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2943 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2944 --------------------------------
2947 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2950 * Support for RTSP authentication
2951 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2952 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2953 * ATSC support for DVB input
2954 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2955 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2956 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2959 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2960 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2961 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2962 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2963 * Matroska WavPack support
2964 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2965 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2966 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2969 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2970 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2971 * Improved libcaca support
2975 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2976 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2978 * Systray support in skins
2980 * Support for Apple Remote control
2981 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2982 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2983 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2984 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2986 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2989 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2990 Windows 9x/ME users:
2991 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2992 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2993 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2994 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2995 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2997 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2998 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3007 * Updates to the libvlc API
3008 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3011 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3012 --------------------------------
3015 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3016 * Support for downloading updates
3020 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3021 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3022 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3023 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3025 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3026 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3027 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3030 * Cook (Real audio) support
3032 Playlist / Services discovery:
3033 * XSPF playlist support
3035 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3038 * New JACK audio output
3041 * New video filters:
3042 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3043 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3044 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3045 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3046 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3047 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3050 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3053 * System to inform the user and request information
3054 - HTTP authentication
3058 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3059 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3060 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3063 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3064 - Improved playlist handling
3065 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3067 - Embedded Video output
3068 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3069 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3070 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3071 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3072 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3074 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3075 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3078 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3081 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3082 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3083 * Growl "Now playing" support
3086 * Ability to log to syslog
3087 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3090 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3092 * A bit more automatic testing
3095 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3096 ---------------------------------
3099 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3100 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3103 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3104 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3107 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3110 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3111 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3117 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3120 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3121 --------------------------------
3124 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3128 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3129 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3130 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3133 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3134 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3135 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3136 * GnomeVFS input module
3137 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3138 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3141 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3142 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3143 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3146 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3147 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3153 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3154 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3157 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3158 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3159 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3162 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3164 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3165 - New extended controls panel
3166 - New bookmarks window
3167 - Fixed playlist sorting
3168 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3170 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3171 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3172 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3173 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3177 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3178 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3180 - Include macro to include other files
3184 * Should now work outside IE as well
3187 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3190 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3191 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3194 The following languages were added:
3198 * Simplified Chinese
3199 The following languages were re-added:
3203 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3204 --------------------------------
3207 * Rewrite of the playlist
3209 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3210 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3211 * Preferences improvements:
3212 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3213 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3215 * Core image manipulation support
3216 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3217 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3218 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3219 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3220 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3221 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3222 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3223 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3224 * Access filter architecture
3225 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3226 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3230 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3231 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3232 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3233 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3234 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3235 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3236 * Massive Matroska improvements
3237 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3239 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3240 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3241 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3242 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3243 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3245 Decoders / Encoders:
3246 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3247 * PNG decoder/encoder
3248 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3249 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3252 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3255 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3256 * Brand new SAP module
3257 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3258 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3259 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3260 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3261 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3262 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3266 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3269 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3270 * Image file video output (png)
3271 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3272 * Improvements to wall video filter
3273 * Support for font color and opacity
3279 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3280 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3281 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3285 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3286 - Improved preferences
3287 - Improvements to the wizard
3288 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3290 - Redesigned playlist
3291 - Improved preferences
3293 - Support for multiple actions
3296 - Support for the new playlist system
3298 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3301 * Screensaver disabling fix
3302 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3303 * Support for no-decoration windows
3306 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3307 * The OpenGL video output is back
3308 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3309 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3310 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3311 is not yet available in the new module
3312 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3315 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3324 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3327 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3330 The following languages were added:
3336 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3337 --------------------------------
3340 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3341 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3344 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3345 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3346 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3349 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3352 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3355 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3358 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3359 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3360 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3364 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3366 * Support of playlist group announcement
3369 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3370 --------------------------------
3373 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3374 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3375 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3376 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3377 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3378 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3381 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3382 (Stream your desktop)
3383 * Improved DVD support:
3384 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3385 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3386 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3387 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3388 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3389 (selection of titles/chapters).
3392 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3393 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3394 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3395 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3396 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3397 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3398 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3399 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3400 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3401 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3404 * G.726 audio support
3405 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3406 * MPEG-4 text support
3407 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3408 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3409 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3413 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3414 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3415 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3416 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3417 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3418 * DVB subtitles encoder
3419 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3420 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3422 * Text track muxing for mp4
3423 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3424 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3425 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3426 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3427 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3428 * Improved ASF muxer
3430 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3431 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3432 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3435 * New audio equalizer filter
3436 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3437 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3438 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3439 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3442 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3443 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3444 with support for effects.
3445 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3446 - New filters can be streamed.
3447 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3448 - Centralized scaling and blending
3450 - "time", to display current time
3451 - "marq", to display a marquee
3454 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3455 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3456 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3457 * A few skins2 improvements
3458 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3459 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3460 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3461 * Improved CORBA control module
3464 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3465 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3466 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3469 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3470 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3471 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3474 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3475 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3476 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3477 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3478 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3481 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3484 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3485 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3488 * Server/client network synchronization module
3489 * VBrick streams fully supported
3490 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3494 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3495 --------------------------------
3498 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3499 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3500 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3501 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3504 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3505 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3506 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3507 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3508 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3509 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3510 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3513 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3514 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3515 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3516 * Improved directory access module.
3517 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3518 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3519 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3520 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3521 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3524 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3525 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3526 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3529 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3530 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3531 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3534 * Improved session announcement system.
3535 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3536 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3537 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3538 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3539 * Improved transrater.
3540 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3541 * New configuration system.
3542 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3545 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3546 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3547 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3548 * Supports scheduling.
3549 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3550 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3553 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3554 - Ability to embed video output.
3555 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3556 - Lots of improvements.
3557 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3558 - New design and set of icons.
3559 - Ability to embed video output.
3560 - Support for hotkeys.
3561 - Support for bookmarks.
3563 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3564 - Better hotkeys handling.
3567 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3568 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3569 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3570 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3573 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3574 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3575 * Improved Windows installer.
3581 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3582 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3585 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3586 ---------------------------------
3589 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3590 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3593 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3594 --------------------------------
3597 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3598 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3601 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3602 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3603 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3604 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3607 * Internal improvments
3608 * Improved import/export
3611 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3613 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3614 small and strange formats.
3616 * New MOD audio demux.
3617 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3618 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3619 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3620 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3623 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3624 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3625 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3631 * New opengl video output plugin.
3634 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3635 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3638 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3639 --------------------------------
3642 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3643 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3644 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3645 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3646 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3647 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3648 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3649 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3652 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3657 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3658 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3659 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3660 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3661 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3662 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3663 * Better Icecast support.
3664 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3665 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3668 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3669 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3670 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3671 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3672 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3673 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3674 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3677 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3678 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3679 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3680 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3681 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3682 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3683 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3684 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3685 * Preliminary RTP support.
3686 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3691 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3692 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3694 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3695 - Improvements and help in preferences
3696 - New streaming wizard
3697 - Revised Disc Open menu
3699 - Improvements of the standard pages
3700 - Support for new commands
3701 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3704 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3705 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3708 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3709 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3710 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3711 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3712 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3713 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3714 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3715 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3716 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3719 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3721 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3722 * Support for Panther.
3723 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3724 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3727 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3728 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3729 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3730 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3731 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3732 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3733 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3734 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3737 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3738 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3739 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3742 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3745 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3746 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3747 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3748 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3751 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3752 --------------------------------
3755 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3758 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3759 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3762 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3763 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3766 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3769 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3770 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3773 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3776 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3779 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3780 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3784 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3785 --------------------------------
3788 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3789 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3793 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3794 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3795 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3797 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3798 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3801 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3804 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3807 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3808 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3812 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3813 --------------------------------
3816 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3817 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3821 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3822 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3823 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3824 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3825 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3828 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3829 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3830 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3833 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3834 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3835 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3838 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3839 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3840 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3841 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3842 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3845 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3846 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3847 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3850 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3853 * Improved build system.
3854 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3855 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3856 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3857 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3860 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3861 --------------------------------
3864 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3867 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3868 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3869 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3870 * Video 4 Linux support
3871 * CD Digital Audio support
3872 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3875 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3876 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3877 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3878 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3881 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3882 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3883 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3884 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3885 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3886 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3887 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3890 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3891 * New HTTP remote control interface
3894 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3895 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3896 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3897 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3898 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3901 * New reset option for the preferences
3902 * You can set your language in the prefences
3903 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3904 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3905 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3906 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3909 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3910 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3911 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3914 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3915 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3916 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3917 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3918 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3919 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3920 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3921 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3922 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3923 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3926 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3927 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3928 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3929 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3930 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3931 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3932 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3935 * Interface localization
3936 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3937 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3938 * New full-featured Preferences window
3941 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3942 --------------------------------
3945 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3946 * support for skins at the interface level
3947 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3948 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3949 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3950 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3951 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3954 * fixed HTTP redirects
3955 * support for opening an entire directory
3956 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3957 * new video4linux access plug-in
3958 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3961 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3962 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3963 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3966 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3967 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3968 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3969 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3970 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3971 * new codec for raw I420 video
3972 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3975 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3976 (although it still misses some important features)
3977 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3980 * new HTTP output support
3981 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3982 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3985 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3988 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3991 * reorderable playlist
3992 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3993 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3994 * support for mono audio output devices
3995 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3996 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3997 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3998 * the messages window remembers more lines
3999 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4000 * http and ogg stream output options
4001 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4004 * new skinnable interface
4005 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4007 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4008 * support for FLAC audio format
4009 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4011 * network tab in the interface
4012 * "apply" handling in preferences
4015 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4016 ---------------------------------
4019 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4020 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4021 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4022 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4024 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4025 * DTS S/PDIF support
4028 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4029 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4030 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4031 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4034 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4035 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4038 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4041 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4044 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4046 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4047 * rc interface is now fully useable
4048 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4051 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4052 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4053 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4054 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4055 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4057 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4058 * support for mouse gestures
4059 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4062 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4063 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4066 * improved ID3 tag detection
4067 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4068 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4069 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4071 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4074 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4075 ---------------------------------
4078 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4079 English was set as the preferred language
4082 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4083 --------------------------------
4086 * new mouse gesture interface
4087 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4091 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4092 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4093 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4096 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4097 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4101 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4104 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4105 without the user consent
4108 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4110 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4111 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4112 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4115 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4116 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4117 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4118 * playlist enhancements
4119 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4120 * new step forward/step backward commands
4121 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4122 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4123 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4126 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4127 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4128 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4131 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4132 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4135 * native video output is working again
4136 * only commandline interface support
4137 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4140 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4141 --------------------------------
4144 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4145 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4146 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4147 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4148 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4149 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4150 and A/52 streams are supported)
4151 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4156 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4157 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4158 * VCD entry points support
4159 * VCD image file support
4162 * support for *.asf format
4163 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4164 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4165 * support for ogg encapsulation
4166 * support for raw DV format
4167 * support for *.wav format
4168 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4171 Stream discovery & playlists:
4172 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4173 * support for .m3u file format
4174 * support for .asx file format
4175 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4178 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4179 (only available with the .avi demux)
4180 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4181 * support for raw PCM data
4182 * support for Cinepak video codec
4183 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4184 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4185 * support for Xvid codec
4186 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4187 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4188 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4190 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4192 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4195 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4198 * new WxWindows interface
4199 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4200 device and the channels configuration
4201 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4202 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4203 format that VLC can play
4204 * new swedish translation
4205 * enhancements of the playlist window
4206 * new messages window to see debug info
4207 * fixed a few crashes
4210 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4211 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4212 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4213 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working