1 Changes between 0.9.6 and 1.0.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
6 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on
10 * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
11 * E-AC3 (A/52b) support
14 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
15 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
16 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
19 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items
22 * export the playlist in HTML
25 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
27 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
28 --------------------------------
33 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-xxxx)
34 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-xxxx)
36 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
37 --------------------------------
39 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
40 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
43 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
46 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
47 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
50 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
51 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
54 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
55 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
56 * Various fixed in playlist
59 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
62 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
64 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
65 ------------------------------------
67 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
68 * Fixes several memory leaks.
71 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
72 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
73 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
76 * Stability fix for the video output.
79 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
80 --------------------------------
83 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
84 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
85 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
86 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
87 * Fixed update system bugs
88 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
91 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
92 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
93 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
94 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
95 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
96 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
97 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
98 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
99 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
100 modern Mac OS X versions
103 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
104 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
106 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
107 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
110 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
111 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
112 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
113 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
114 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
115 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
118 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
119 --------------------------------
121 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
122 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
126 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
127 --------------------------------
129 * Multiple bug fixes.
132 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
133 ---------------------------------
137 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
138 recent to work correctly
139 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
140 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
141 edit the ".hosts" file.
142 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
143 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
144 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
145 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
146 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
147 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
148 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
149 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
150 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
151 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
152 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
153 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
154 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
155 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
156 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
157 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
158 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
159 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
160 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
161 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
162 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
163 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
164 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
165 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
166 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
167 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
168 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
169 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
170 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
171 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
172 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
173 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
174 and postproc modules.
175 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
176 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
177 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
178 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
180 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
182 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
183 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
185 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
186 * Glide video output module has been removed.
192 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
194 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
195 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
198 * Vastly improved playlist support:
199 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
201 * Shoutcast TV listings
202 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
204 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
205 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
207 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
210 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
211 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
212 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
213 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
214 * JACK audio input support
215 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
216 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
217 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
218 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
219 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
220 * Experimental EyeTV access module
221 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
222 (available as a separate download).
223 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
225 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
226 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
227 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
229 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
230 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
233 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
234 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
235 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
236 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
238 * APEv1/2 tags support
239 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
240 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
242 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
243 * TiVo Series 2 support
244 * CD+G karaoke Files support
249 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
250 * Flash Screen Video support
251 * CamStudio Screen Video support
252 * DosBox Capture support
253 * Karl Morton's Video support
254 * limited atrac3 support
256 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
257 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
258 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
260 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
261 * NellyMoser ASAO support
262 * APE (Monkey audio) support
263 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
264 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
267 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
268 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
269 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
270 * AQTitle subtitles support
271 * MKV USF subtitles support
272 * HTML-based subtitles support
273 * MPSub subtitles support
274 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
275 * MPL2 subtitles support
276 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
277 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
278 * Realtext subtitle support
279 * DKS subtitle support
280 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
281 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
284 * Flash Screen Video support
285 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
287 Video outputs and filters:
288 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
289 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
290 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
291 * New puzzle video output filter
292 * Re-written motion detection video filter
293 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
295 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
296 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
297 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
298 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
299 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
300 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
301 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
302 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
303 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
304 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
305 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
306 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
307 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
308 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
310 Audio outputs and filters:
311 * Replay gain support
312 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
313 new scaletempo audio filter)
314 * New spatializer audio filter
315 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
318 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
319 * New RTP payload formats:
320 * Speex voice audio codec
321 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
322 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
323 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
324 * DCCP transport for RTP
325 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
330 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
331 end-user suitable way.
332 * Improved user interaction
333 * Improved mouse gestures
334 * Vastly improved Update checker
335 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
337 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
338 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
340 * Improved video output features
341 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
342 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
343 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
344 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
345 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
347 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
348 if libncursesw is available.
349 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
350 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
351 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
353 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
354 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
355 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
356 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
357 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
358 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
359 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
360 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
363 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
364 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
365 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
368 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
369 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
370 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
371 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
372 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
373 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
376 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
377 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
387 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
388 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
389 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
392 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
393 ----------------------------------
396 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
399 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
400 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
401 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
402 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
403 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
404 * Updated Polish translation
407 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
408 ----------------------------------
411 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
412 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
413 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
416 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
417 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
418 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
419 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
420 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
421 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
422 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
423 to an unexpected application termination
424 * New Serbian translation
425 * Updated Romanian translation
428 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
429 ----------------------------------
432 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
433 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
434 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
435 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
436 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
437 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
438 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
439 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
442 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
443 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
444 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
445 * Fixed AAC resampling
446 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
447 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
450 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
451 ----------------------------------
454 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
455 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
456 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
457 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
458 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
461 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
462 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
463 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
464 * Close MMS access on network timeout
465 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
468 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
469 ----------------------------------
472 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
473 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
476 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
477 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
478 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
479 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
481 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
485 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
488 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
491 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
494 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
497 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
498 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
499 encoding on multi-cpu systems
500 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
501 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
503 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
504 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
505 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
506 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
509 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
512 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
513 ----------------------------------
516 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
517 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
518 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
520 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
521 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
523 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
524 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
527 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
529 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
530 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
531 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
532 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
533 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
534 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
536 * Support for current Ogg file formats
537 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
538 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
541 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
544 * The automatic updating facility was removed
545 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
546 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
547 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
550 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
551 ----------------------------------
553 Various bugfixes, notably:
554 * Windows Vista compatibility
555 * Cropping in Direct3D
556 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
557 * RSS filter string overflow
559 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
561 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
562 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
565 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
566 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
569 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
572 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
575 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
578 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
579 ----------------------------------
581 Various bugfixes, notably:
582 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
583 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
584 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
585 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
586 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
587 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
590 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
591 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
594 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
596 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
597 * Diverse usability improvements
598 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
599 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
600 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
603 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
604 ---------------------------------
607 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
610 * Fullscreen controller improvements
613 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
614 --------------------------------
617 * Shoutcast TV listings support
620 * Support for RTSP authentication
621 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
622 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
623 * ATSC support for DVB input
624 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
625 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
626 * Improved support for Flash Video files
629 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
630 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
631 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
632 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
633 * Matroska WavPack support
634 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
635 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
636 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
639 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
640 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
641 * Improved libcaca support
645 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
646 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
648 * Systray support in skins
650 * Support for Apple Remote control
651 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
652 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
653 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
654 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
656 * Notifications using notification-daemon
659 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
661 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
662 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
663 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
664 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
665 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
667 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
668 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
677 * Updates to the libvlc API
678 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
681 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
682 --------------------------------
685 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
686 * Support for downloading updates
690 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
691 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
692 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
693 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
695 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
696 * Improved subtitles encoding support
697 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
700 * Cook (Real audio) support
702 Playlist / Services discovery:
703 * XSPF playlist support
705 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
708 * New JACK audio output
712 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
713 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
714 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
715 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
716 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
717 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
720 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
723 * System to inform the user and request information
724 - HTTP authentication
728 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
729 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
730 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
733 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
734 - Improved playlist handling
735 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
737 - Embedded Video output
738 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
739 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
740 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
741 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
742 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
744 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
745 - A bunch of new RPN functions
748 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
751 * Mac-Intel compatibility
752 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
753 * Growl "Now playing" support
756 * Ability to log to syslog
757 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
760 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
762 * A bit more automatic testing
765 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
766 ---------------------------------
769 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
770 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
773 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
774 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
777 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
780 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
781 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
787 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
790 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
791 --------------------------------
794 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
798 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
799 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
800 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
803 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
804 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
805 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
806 * GnomeVFS input module
807 * Support for RTP packet reordering
808 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
811 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
812 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
813 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
816 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
817 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
823 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
824 Mixer and Dolby Surround
827 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
828 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
829 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
832 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
834 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
835 - New extended controls panel
836 - New bookmarks window
837 - Fixed playlist sorting
838 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
840 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
841 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
842 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
843 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
847 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
848 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
850 - Include macro to include other files
854 * Should now work outside IE as well
857 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
860 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
861 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
864 The following languages were added:
869 The following languages were re-added:
873 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
874 --------------------------------
877 * Rewrite of the playlist
879 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
880 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
881 * Preferences improvements:
882 - New organization, designed to improve usability
883 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
885 * Core image manipulation support
886 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
887 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
888 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
889 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
890 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
891 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
892 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
893 now separated by ':' instead of ','
894 * Access filter architecture
895 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
896 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
900 * Support for SOCKS proxy
901 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
902 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
903 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
904 * Better support for Kasenna streams
905 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
906 * Massive Matroska improvements
907 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
909 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
910 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
911 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
912 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
913 * Support for FTP over IPv6
916 * Dirac decoder and encoder
917 * PNG decoder/encoder
918 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
919 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
922 * New Record and Timeshift filters
925 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
926 * Brand new SAP module
927 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
928 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
929 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
930 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
931 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
932 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
936 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
939 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
940 * Image file video output (png)
941 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
942 * Improvements to wall video filter
943 * Support for font color and opacity
949 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
950 - Seeking support in VoD streams
951 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
955 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
956 - Improved preferences
957 - Improvements to the wizard
958 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
960 - Redesigned playlist
961 - Improved preferences
963 - Support for multiple actions
966 - Support for the new playlist system
968 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
971 * Screensaver disabling fix
972 * DirectShow tuner configuration
973 * Support for no-decoration windows
976 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
977 * The OpenGL video output is back
978 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
979 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
980 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
981 is not yet available in the new module
982 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
985 * Support for single-buffered overlay
994 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
997 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1000 The following languages were added:
1006 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1007 --------------------------------
1010 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1011 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1014 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1015 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1016 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1019 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1022 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1025 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1028 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1029 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1030 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1034 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1036 * Support of playlist group announcement
1039 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1040 --------------------------------
1043 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1044 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1045 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1046 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1047 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1048 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1051 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1052 (Stream your desktop)
1053 * Improved DVD support:
1054 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1055 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1056 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1057 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1058 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1059 (selection of titles/chapters).
1062 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1063 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1064 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1065 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1066 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1067 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1068 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1069 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1070 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1071 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1074 * G.726 audio support
1075 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1076 * MPEG-4 text support
1077 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1078 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1079 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1083 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1084 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1085 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1086 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1087 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1088 * DVB subtitles encoder
1089 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1090 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1092 * Text track muxing for mp4
1093 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1094 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1095 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1096 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1097 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1098 * Improved ASF muxer
1100 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1101 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1102 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1105 * New audio equalizer filter
1106 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1107 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1108 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1109 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1112 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1113 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1114 with support for effects.
1115 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1116 - New filters can be streamed.
1117 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1118 - Centralized scaling and blending
1120 - "time", to display current time
1121 - "marq", to display a marquee
1124 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1125 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1126 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1127 * A few skins2 improvements
1128 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1129 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1130 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1131 * Improved CORBA control module
1134 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1135 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1136 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1139 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1140 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1141 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1144 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1145 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1146 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1147 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1148 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1151 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1154 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1155 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1158 * Server/client network synchronization module
1159 * VBrick streams fully supported
1160 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1164 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1165 --------------------------------
1168 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1169 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1170 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1171 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1174 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1175 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1176 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1177 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1178 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1179 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1180 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1183 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1184 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1185 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1186 * Improved directory access module.
1187 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1188 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1189 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1190 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1191 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1194 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1195 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1196 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1199 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1200 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1201 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1204 * Improved session announcement system.
1205 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1206 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1207 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1208 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1209 * Improved transrater.
1210 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1211 * New configuration system.
1212 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1215 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1216 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1217 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1218 * Supports scheduling.
1219 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1220 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1223 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1224 - Ability to embed video output.
1225 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1226 - Lots of improvements.
1227 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1228 - New design and set of icons.
1229 - Ability to embed video output.
1230 - Support for hotkeys.
1231 - Support for bookmarks.
1233 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1234 - Better hotkeys handling.
1237 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1238 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1239 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1240 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1243 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1244 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1245 * Improved Windows installer.
1251 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1252 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1255 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1256 ---------------------------------
1259 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1260 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1263 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1264 --------------------------------
1267 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1268 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1271 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1272 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1273 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1274 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1277 * Internal improvments
1278 * Improved import/export
1281 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1283 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1284 small and strange formats.
1286 * New MOD audio demux.
1287 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1288 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1289 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1290 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1293 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1294 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1295 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1301 * New opengl video output plugin.
1304 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1305 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1308 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1309 --------------------------------
1312 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1313 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1314 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1315 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1316 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1317 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1318 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1319 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1322 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1327 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1328 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1329 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1330 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1331 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1332 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1333 * Better Icecast support.
1334 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1335 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1338 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1339 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1340 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1341 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1342 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1343 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1344 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1347 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1348 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1349 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1350 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1351 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1352 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1353 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1354 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1355 * Preliminary RTP support.
1356 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1361 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1362 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1364 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1365 - Improvements and help in preferences
1366 - New streaming wizard
1367 - Revised Disc Open menu
1369 - Improvements of the standard pages
1370 - Support for new commands
1371 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1374 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1375 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1378 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1379 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1380 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1381 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1382 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1383 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1384 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1385 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1386 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1389 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1391 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1392 * Support for Panther.
1393 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1394 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1397 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1398 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1399 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1400 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1401 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1402 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1403 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1404 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1407 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1408 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1409 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1412 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1415 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1416 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1417 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1418 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1421 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1422 --------------------------------
1425 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1428 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1429 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1432 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1433 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1436 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1439 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1440 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1443 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1446 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1449 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1450 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1454 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1455 --------------------------------
1458 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1459 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1463 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1464 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1465 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1467 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1468 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1471 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1474 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1477 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1478 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1482 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1483 --------------------------------
1486 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1487 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1491 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1492 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1493 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1494 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1495 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1498 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1499 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1500 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1503 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1504 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1505 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1508 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1509 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1510 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1511 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1512 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1515 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1516 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1517 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1520 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1523 * Improved build system.
1524 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1525 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1526 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1527 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1530 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1531 --------------------------------
1534 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1537 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1538 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1539 * Video 4 Linux support
1540 * CD Digital Audio support
1541 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1544 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1545 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1546 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1547 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1550 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1551 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1552 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1553 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1554 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1555 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1556 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1559 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1560 * New HTTP remote control interface
1563 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1564 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1565 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1566 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1569 * New reset option for the preferences
1570 * You can set your language in the prefences
1571 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1572 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1573 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1574 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1577 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1578 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1579 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1582 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1583 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1584 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1585 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1586 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1587 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1588 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1589 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1590 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1591 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1594 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1595 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1596 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1597 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1598 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1599 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1600 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1603 * Interface localization
1604 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1605 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1606 * New full-featured Preferences window
1609 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1610 --------------------------------
1613 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1614 * support for skins at the interface level
1615 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1616 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1617 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1618 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1619 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1622 * fixed HTTP redirects
1623 * support for opening an entire directory
1624 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1625 * new video4linux access plug-in
1626 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1629 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1630 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1631 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1634 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1635 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1636 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1637 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1638 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1639 * new codec for raw I420 video
1640 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1643 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1644 (although it still misses some important features)
1645 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1648 * new HTTP output support
1649 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1650 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1653 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1656 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1659 * reorderable playlist
1660 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1661 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1662 * support for mono audio output devices
1663 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1664 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1665 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1666 * the messages window remembers more lines
1667 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1668 * http and ogg stream output options
1669 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1672 * new skinnable interface
1673 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1675 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1676 * support for FLAC audio format
1677 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1679 * network tab in the interface
1680 * "apply" handling in preferences
1683 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1684 ---------------------------------
1687 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1688 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1689 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1690 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1692 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1693 * DTS S/PDIF support
1696 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1697 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1698 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1699 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1702 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1703 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1706 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1709 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1712 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1714 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1715 * rc interface is now fully useable
1716 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1719 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1720 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1721 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1722 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1723 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1725 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1726 * support for mouse gestures
1727 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1730 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1731 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1734 * improved ID3 tag detection
1735 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1736 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1737 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1739 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1742 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1743 ---------------------------------
1746 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1747 English was set as the preferred language
1750 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1751 --------------------------------
1754 * new mouse gesture interface
1755 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1759 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1760 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1761 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1764 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1765 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1769 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1772 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1773 without the user consent
1776 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1778 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1779 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1780 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1783 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1784 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1785 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1786 * playlist enhancements
1787 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1788 * new step forward/step backward commands
1789 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1790 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1791 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1794 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1795 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1796 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1799 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1800 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1803 * native video output is working again
1804 * only commandline interface support
1805 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1808 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1809 --------------------------------
1812 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1813 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1814 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1815 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1816 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1817 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1818 and A/52 streams are supported)
1819 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1824 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1825 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1826 * VCD entry points support
1827 * VCD image file support
1830 * support for *.asf format
1831 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1832 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1833 * support for ogg encapsulation
1834 * support for raw DV format
1835 * support for *.wav format
1836 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1839 Stream discovery & playlists:
1840 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1841 * support for .m3u file format
1842 * support for .asx file format
1843 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1846 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1847 (only available with the .avi demux)
1848 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1849 * support for raw PCM data
1850 * support for Cinepak video codec
1851 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1852 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1853 * support for Xvid codec
1854 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1855 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1856 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1858 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1860 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1863 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1866 * new WxWindows interface
1867 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1868 device and the channels configuration
1869 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1870 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1871 format that VLC can play
1872 * new swedish translation
1873 * enhancements of the playlist window
1874 * new messages window to see debug info
1875 * fixed a few crashes
1878 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1879 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1880 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1881 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working