1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
9 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
10 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
11 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
12 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
13 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
14 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
15 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
17 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
18 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
22 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
23 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
24 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
25 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
26 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
27 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
30 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
31 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
32 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
33 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
34 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
35 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
36 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
37 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
38 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
39 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
40 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
41 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
42 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
43 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
44 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
47 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
48 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
49 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
50 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
51 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
52 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
55 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
56 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
57 * Ogg seeking improvements
58 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
59 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
60 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
63 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
64 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
65 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
66 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
67 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
68 and important cleanups and optimisations
69 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
70 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
71 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
72 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
73 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
74 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
75 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
78 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
79 * New video output for iOS platform
80 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
81 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
82 * Various vmem improvements
83 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
85 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
86 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
89 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
90 * New audio output in memory (amem)
91 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
92 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
95 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
96 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
97 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
98 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
99 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
100 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
101 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
102 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
103 * New anti-flickering filter
104 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
105 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
106 blackbox and customizable shadow
109 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
112 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
113 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
114 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
115 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
116 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
117 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
118 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
119 * Major rework of VoD support
120 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
121 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
122 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
123 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
124 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
125 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
126 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
127 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
128 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
131 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
132 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
135 * New capabilities for libVLC:
136 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
137 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
138 list of available audio and video filters
139 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
140 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
143 * asademux: use libass only
144 * subsass: use libass
145 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
146 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
148 * upnp: use upnp_intel
149 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
150 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
151 * remove of the noise filter
154 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
155 ---------------------------------
157 Windows and Mac OS X:
158 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
161 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
162 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
165 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
168 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
171 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
173 Miscellaneous fixes in:
174 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
176 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
177 * RTP output and XML export
178 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
182 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
183 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
184 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
185 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
188 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
189 --------------------------------
191 Windows and Mac OS X:
192 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
195 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
198 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
199 * Improve Apple Remote handling
200 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
201 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
202 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
203 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
206 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
207 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
211 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
212 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
213 * New Luganda Translation
216 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
217 --------------------------------
220 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
223 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
224 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
225 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
226 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
229 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
231 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
232 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
233 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
234 * mp4 demuxer improvements
235 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
236 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
237 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
238 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
240 Miscellaneous fixes in:
241 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
242 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
243 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
244 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
245 * Configure and build system improvements
246 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
249 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
250 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
251 * New icelandic translation
254 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
255 --------------------------------
258 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
262 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
263 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
264 and stability reasons
267 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
271 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
274 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
275 ----------------------------------
278 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
281 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
282 ---------------------------------
285 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
286 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
287 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
288 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
291 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
294 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
295 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
296 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
297 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
300 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
301 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
302 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
304 Subtitles and renderer:
305 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
306 * Mark more freetype options as safe
307 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
308 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
309 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
312 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
313 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
314 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
315 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
318 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
319 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
322 * KDE device solid actions
324 * Transcode integer overflow
325 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
326 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
329 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
330 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
331 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
334 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
335 ----------------------------------
338 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
342 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
345 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
348 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
349 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
350 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
351 * Taglib thread-safety fix
354 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
358 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
361 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
364 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
365 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
367 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
371 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
372 * Miscellaneous fixes
375 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
376 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
378 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
379 * New Asturian translation
382 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
383 ----------------------------------
386 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
388 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
391 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
394 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
395 * Various fixes for Windows
398 * New Armenian translation
399 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
400 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
403 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
404 --------------------------------
407 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
409 * Fix folders opening from the interface
412 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
413 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
416 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
417 --------------------------------
420 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
421 * fix for podcasts parsing
422 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
425 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
426 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
429 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
430 * fix m3u playlists exports
433 * fix video autoresize behaviour
436 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
439 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
442 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
445 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
448 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
449 --------------------------------
452 * Avformat fps displaying fix
453 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
456 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
457 of mono streams, especially on Windows
460 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
461 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
462 * fix console output encoding
464 Interface and extensions:
465 * Youtube and other scripts updates
466 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
469 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
470 --------------------------------
473 * New capabilities for libVLC:
474 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
475 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
476 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
477 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
478 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
479 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
480 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
481 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
482 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
483 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
484 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
485 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
486 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
487 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
488 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
492 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
493 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
494 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
495 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
496 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
499 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
502 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
503 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
504 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
508 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
511 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
512 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
513 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
516 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
517 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
518 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
519 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
522 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
523 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
526 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
527 --------------------------------
529 Important changes for users:
530 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
531 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
533 Important changes for packagers:
534 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
535 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
536 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
537 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
538 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
540 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
542 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
543 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
544 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
545 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
546 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
549 * Support for the sftp protocol
550 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
551 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
552 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
553 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
554 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
557 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
558 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
559 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
561 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
562 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
563 * Invmem module improvements
564 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
565 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
566 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
567 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
568 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
569 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
570 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
571 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
572 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
573 * Support for VP8 codec
574 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
577 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
578 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
579 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
580 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
581 * Various EGP improvements
582 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
583 * Metadata and cover art improvements
586 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
587 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
588 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
589 * Podcast images are now displayed
592 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
593 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
594 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
595 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
596 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
597 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
598 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
599 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
600 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
601 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
602 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
605 * New content extensions lua framework
608 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
609 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
610 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
611 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
612 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
613 * NEON assembly audio converter module
614 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
617 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
618 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
619 * Service discovery based on libudev
620 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
623 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
624 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
625 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
626 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
627 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
628 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
629 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
632 * New smem module, streaming to memory
633 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
634 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
637 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
639 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
640 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
643 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
646 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
647 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
648 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
649 by Andy Matuschak et al.
650 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
651 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
652 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
655 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
656 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
659 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
660 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
661 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
665 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
666 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
667 * Improved Solaris port
670 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
671 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
674 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
675 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
676 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
677 * transrate: broken since too long
678 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
679 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
680 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
681 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
682 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
683 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
684 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
685 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
686 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
687 * cddax: use cdda instead.
688 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
689 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
690 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
691 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
694 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
695 --------------------------------
698 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
700 Decoders/Packetizers:
701 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
704 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
705 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
706 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
707 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
708 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
711 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
712 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
715 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
716 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
719 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
720 and Walloon translations updated
721 * Sinhala translation started
724 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
725 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
728 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
729 --------------------------------
732 * SubRip extra styles improvements
733 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
736 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
739 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
740 increase performance and fix x264 issues
743 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
744 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
745 Russian, Slovak translation updates
746 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
749 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
750 --------------------------------
753 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
754 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
757 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
758 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
761 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
762 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
765 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
768 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
769 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
772 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
773 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
776 * New Walloon translation
777 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
780 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
781 --------------------------------
784 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
785 regressions in most popular drivers
786 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
789 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
790 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
791 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
794 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
795 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
798 * Update for appletrailers lua script
799 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
800 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
801 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
802 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
805 * New udev module for linux
808 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
811 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
814 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
815 --------------------------------
818 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
819 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
820 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
823 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
824 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
827 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
828 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
831 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
834 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
835 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
836 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
837 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
840 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
841 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
842 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
843 - no support for Goom and SDL
844 - limited text rendering support
845 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
848 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
849 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
850 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
851 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
852 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
853 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
854 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
855 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
856 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
860 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
863 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
866 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
867 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
868 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
869 Arabic and French translation updates
872 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
873 --------------------------------
876 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
877 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
878 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
879 * Fix Dailymotion access script
880 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
881 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
884 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
885 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
888 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
889 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
890 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
893 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
896 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
897 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
900 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
901 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
902 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
903 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
904 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
905 * Fix various crashes
908 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
910 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
913 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
914 ---------------------------------
918 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
919 See 'Access:' for more info.
920 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
923 * Instantaneous pausing
924 * Frame-by-Frame playback
925 * Finer speed control
926 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
927 * Timeshift for most medias
928 * RTSP trickplay support
929 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
932 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
933 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
934 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
935 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
936 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
937 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
938 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
939 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
940 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
941 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
944 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
945 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
946 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
947 * Metadata for mod files are supported
948 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
949 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
950 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
953 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
954 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
957 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
958 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
959 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
960 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
961 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
962 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
963 * DVB scanning on linux
964 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
965 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
966 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
967 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
968 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
969 * MTP device access on Unix
970 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
971 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
974 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
975 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
976 Windows and Mac OS X.
979 * Export the playlist in HTML
980 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
981 * Better metadata handling and reading
983 Linux/Windows interface:
984 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
985 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
986 * Recently played items list
987 * Interface toolbar customizations
988 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
991 - Improvements on many dialogs
992 - New dialog for plugins listing
993 - Fixed-size mode for videos
994 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
995 * Better integration in GTK environments
998 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
999 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1000 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1001 * Additional usability improvements
1004 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1005 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1006 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1007 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1008 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1011 * New Maemo port with:
1012 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1013 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1016 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1019 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1020 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1021 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1022 * Support for latest iSight models
1025 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1026 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1029 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1030 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1031 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1032 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1033 The old image video output has been removed.
1034 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1035 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1038 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1046 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1047 --------------------------------------
1053 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1054 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1055 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1056 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1057 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1058 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1059 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1061 Various fixes to the following modules:
1064 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1065 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1066 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1068 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1073 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1074 ---------------------------------
1077 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1078 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1081 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1082 ---------------------------------
1085 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1088 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1091 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1092 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1093 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1094 main controller window.
1095 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1098 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1103 * Updates of other localizations
1106 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1107 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1108 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1109 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1110 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1113 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1114 ---------------------------------
1117 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1119 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1122 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1123 --------------------------------
1128 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1129 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1132 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1133 --------------------------------
1135 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1136 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1139 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1142 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1143 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1146 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1147 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1150 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1151 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1152 * Various fixed in playlist
1155 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1158 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1161 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1162 ------------------------------------
1164 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1165 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1168 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1169 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1170 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1173 * Stability fix for the video output.
1176 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1177 --------------------------------
1180 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1181 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1182 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1183 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1184 * Fixed update system bugs
1185 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1188 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1189 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1190 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1191 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1192 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1193 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1194 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1195 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1196 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1197 modern Mac OS X versions
1200 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1201 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1203 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1204 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1207 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1208 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1209 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1210 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1211 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1212 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1215 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1216 --------------------------------
1218 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1219 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1220 * Multiple bugfixes.
1223 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1224 --------------------------------
1226 * Multiple bug fixes.
1229 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1230 ---------------------------------
1234 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1235 recent to work correctly
1236 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1237 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1238 edit the ".hosts" file.
1239 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1240 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1241 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1242 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1243 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1244 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1245 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1246 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1247 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1248 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1249 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1250 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1251 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1252 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1253 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1254 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1255 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1256 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1257 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1258 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1259 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1260 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1261 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1262 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1263 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1264 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1265 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1266 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1267 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1268 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1269 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1270 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1271 and postproc modules.
1272 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1273 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1274 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1275 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1277 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1278 filter. For example:
1279 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1280 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1282 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1283 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1289 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1291 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1292 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1295 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1296 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1298 * Shoutcast TV listings
1299 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1301 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1302 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1304 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1307 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1308 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1309 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1310 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1311 * JACK audio input support
1312 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1313 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1314 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1315 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1316 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1317 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1318 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1319 (available as a separate download).
1320 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1321 * RTMP input support
1322 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1323 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1324 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1326 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1327 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1330 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1331 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1332 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1333 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1335 * APEv1/2 tags support
1336 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1337 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1339 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1340 * TiVo Series 2 support
1341 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1346 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1347 * Flash Screen Video support
1348 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1349 * DosBox Capture support
1350 * Karl Morton's Video support
1351 * limited atrac3 support
1353 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1354 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1355 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1356 * H.264 PAFF support
1357 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1358 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1359 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1360 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1361 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1364 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1365 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1366 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1367 * AQTitle subtitles support
1368 * MKV USF subtitles support
1369 * HTML-based subtitles support
1370 * MPSub subtitles support
1371 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1372 * MPL2 subtitles support
1373 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1374 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1375 * Realtext subtitle support
1376 * DKS subtitle support
1377 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1378 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1381 * Flash Screen Video support
1382 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1384 Video outputs and filters:
1385 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1386 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1387 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1388 * New puzzle video output filter
1389 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1390 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1392 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1393 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1394 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1395 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1396 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1397 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1398 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1399 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1400 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1401 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1402 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1403 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1404 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1405 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1407 Audio outputs and filters:
1408 * Replay gain support
1409 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1410 new scaletempo audio filter)
1411 * New spatializer audio filter
1412 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1415 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1416 * New RTP payload formats:
1417 * Speex voice audio codec
1418 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1419 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1420 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1421 * DCCP transport for RTP
1422 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1427 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1428 end-user suitable way.
1429 * Improved user interaction
1430 * Improved mouse gestures
1431 * Vastly improved Update checker
1432 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1434 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1435 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1437 * Improved video output features
1438 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1439 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1440 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1441 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1442 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1444 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1445 if libncursesw is available.
1446 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1447 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1448 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1450 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1451 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1452 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1453 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1454 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1455 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1456 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1457 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1460 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1461 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1462 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1465 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1466 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1467 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1468 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1469 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1470 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1473 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1474 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1484 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1485 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1486 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1489 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1490 ----------------------------------
1493 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1496 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1497 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1498 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1499 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1500 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1501 * Updated Polish translation
1504 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1505 ----------------------------------
1508 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1509 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1510 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1513 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1514 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1515 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1516 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1517 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1518 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1519 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1520 to an unexpected application termination
1521 * New Serbian translation
1522 * Updated Romanian translation
1525 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1526 ----------------------------------
1529 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1530 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1531 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1532 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1533 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1534 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1535 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1536 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1539 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1540 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1541 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1542 * Fixed AAC resampling
1543 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1544 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1547 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1548 ----------------------------------
1551 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1552 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1553 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1554 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1555 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1558 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1559 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1560 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1561 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1562 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1565 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1566 ----------------------------------
1569 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1570 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1573 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1574 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1575 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1576 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1578 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1582 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1585 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1588 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1591 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1594 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1595 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1596 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1597 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1598 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1600 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1601 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1602 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1603 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1606 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1609 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1610 ----------------------------------
1613 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1614 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1615 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1617 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1618 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1620 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1621 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1624 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1626 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1627 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1628 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1629 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1630 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1631 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1632 two different movies
1633 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1634 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1635 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1638 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1641 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1642 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1643 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1644 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1647 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1648 ----------------------------------
1650 Various bugfixes, notably:
1651 * Windows Vista compatibility
1652 * Cropping in Direct3D
1653 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1654 * RSS filter string overflow
1656 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1658 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1659 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1662 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1663 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1666 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1669 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1672 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1675 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1676 ----------------------------------
1678 Various bugfixes, notably:
1679 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1680 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1681 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1682 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1683 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1684 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1687 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1688 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1691 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1693 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1694 * Diverse usability improvements
1695 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1696 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1697 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1700 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1701 ---------------------------------
1703 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1704 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1707 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1710 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1711 --------------------------------
1714 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1717 * Support for RTSP authentication
1718 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1719 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1720 * ATSC support for DVB input
1721 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1722 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1723 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1726 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1727 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1728 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1729 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1730 * Matroska WavPack support
1731 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1732 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1733 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1736 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1737 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1738 * Improved libcaca support
1742 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1743 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1745 * Systray support in skins
1747 * Support for Apple Remote control
1748 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1749 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1750 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1751 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1753 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1756 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1757 Windows 9x/ME users:
1758 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1759 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1760 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1761 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1762 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1764 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1765 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1774 * Updates to the libvlc API
1775 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1778 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1779 --------------------------------
1782 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1783 * Support for downloading updates
1787 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1788 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1789 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1790 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1792 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1793 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1794 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1797 * Cook (Real audio) support
1799 Playlist / Services discovery:
1800 * XSPF playlist support
1802 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1805 * New JACK audio output
1808 * New video filters:
1809 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1810 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1811 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1812 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1813 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1814 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1817 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1820 * System to inform the user and request information
1821 - HTTP authentication
1825 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1826 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1827 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1830 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1831 - Improved playlist handling
1832 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1834 - Embedded Video output
1835 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1836 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1837 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1838 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1839 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1841 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1842 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1845 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1848 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1849 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1850 * Growl "Now playing" support
1853 * Ability to log to syslog
1854 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1857 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1859 * A bit more automatic testing
1862 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1863 ---------------------------------
1866 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1867 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1870 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1871 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1874 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1877 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1878 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1884 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1887 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1888 --------------------------------
1891 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1895 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1896 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1897 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1900 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1901 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1902 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1903 * GnomeVFS input module
1904 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1905 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1908 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1909 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1910 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1913 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1914 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1920 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1921 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1924 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1925 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1926 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1929 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1931 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1932 - New extended controls panel
1933 - New bookmarks window
1934 - Fixed playlist sorting
1935 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1937 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1938 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1939 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1940 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1944 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1945 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1947 - Include macro to include other files
1951 * Should now work outside IE as well
1954 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1957 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1958 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1961 The following languages were added:
1965 * Simplified Chinese
1966 The following languages were re-added:
1970 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1971 --------------------------------
1974 * Rewrite of the playlist
1976 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1977 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1978 * Preferences improvements:
1979 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1980 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1982 * Core image manipulation support
1983 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1984 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1985 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1986 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1987 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1988 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1989 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1990 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1991 * Access filter architecture
1992 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1993 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1997 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1998 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1999 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2000 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2001 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2002 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2003 * Massive Matroska improvements
2004 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2006 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2007 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2008 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2009 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2010 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2012 Decoders / Encoders:
2013 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2014 * PNG decoder/encoder
2015 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2016 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2019 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2022 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2023 * Brand new SAP module
2024 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2025 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2026 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2027 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2028 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2029 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2033 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2036 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2037 * Image file video output (png)
2038 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2039 * Improvements to wall video filter
2040 * Support for font color and opacity
2046 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2047 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2048 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2052 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2053 - Improved preferences
2054 - Improvements to the wizard
2055 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2057 - Redesigned playlist
2058 - Improved preferences
2060 - Support for multiple actions
2063 - Support for the new playlist system
2065 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2068 * Screensaver disabling fix
2069 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2070 * Support for no-decoration windows
2073 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2074 * The OpenGL video output is back
2075 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2076 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2077 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2078 is not yet available in the new module
2079 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2082 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2091 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2094 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2097 The following languages were added:
2103 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2104 --------------------------------
2107 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2108 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2111 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2112 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2113 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2116 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2119 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2122 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2125 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2126 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2127 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2131 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2133 * Support of playlist group announcement
2136 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2137 --------------------------------
2140 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2141 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2142 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2143 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2144 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2145 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2148 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2149 (Stream your desktop)
2150 * Improved DVD support:
2151 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2152 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2153 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2154 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2155 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2156 (selection of titles/chapters).
2159 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2160 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2161 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2162 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2163 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2164 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2165 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2166 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2167 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2168 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2171 * G.726 audio support
2172 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2173 * MPEG-4 text support
2174 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2175 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2176 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2180 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2181 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2182 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2183 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2184 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2185 * DVB subtitles encoder
2186 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2187 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2189 * Text track muxing for mp4
2190 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2191 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2192 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2193 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2194 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2195 * Improved ASF muxer
2197 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2198 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2199 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2202 * New audio equalizer filter
2203 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2204 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2205 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2206 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2209 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2210 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2211 with support for effects.
2212 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2213 - New filters can be streamed.
2214 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2215 - Centralized scaling and blending
2217 - "time", to display current time
2218 - "marq", to display a marquee
2221 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2222 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2223 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2224 * A few skins2 improvements
2225 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2226 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2227 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2228 * Improved CORBA control module
2231 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2232 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2233 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2236 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2237 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2238 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2241 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2242 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2243 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2244 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2245 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2248 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2251 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2252 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2255 * Server/client network synchronization module
2256 * VBrick streams fully supported
2257 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2261 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2262 --------------------------------
2265 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2266 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2267 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2268 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2271 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2272 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2273 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2274 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2275 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2276 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2277 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2280 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2281 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2282 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2283 * Improved directory access module.
2284 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2285 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2286 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2287 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2288 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2291 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2292 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2293 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2296 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2297 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2298 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2301 * Improved session announcement system.
2302 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2303 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2304 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2305 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2306 * Improved transrater.
2307 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2308 * New configuration system.
2309 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2312 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2313 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2314 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2315 * Supports scheduling.
2316 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2317 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2320 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2321 - Ability to embed video output.
2322 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2323 - Lots of improvements.
2324 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2325 - New design and set of icons.
2326 - Ability to embed video output.
2327 - Support for hotkeys.
2328 - Support for bookmarks.
2330 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2331 - Better hotkeys handling.
2334 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2335 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2336 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2337 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2340 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2341 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2342 * Improved Windows installer.
2348 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2349 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2352 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2353 ---------------------------------
2356 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2357 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2360 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2361 --------------------------------
2364 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2365 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2368 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2369 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2370 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2371 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2374 * Internal improvments
2375 * Improved import/export
2378 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2380 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2381 small and strange formats.
2383 * New MOD audio demux.
2384 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2385 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2386 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2387 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2390 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2391 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2392 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2398 * New opengl video output plugin.
2401 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2402 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2405 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2406 --------------------------------
2409 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2410 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2411 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2412 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2413 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2414 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2415 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2416 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2419 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2424 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2425 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2426 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2427 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2428 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2429 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2430 * Better Icecast support.
2431 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2432 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2435 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2436 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2437 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2438 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2439 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2440 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2441 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2444 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2445 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2446 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2447 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2448 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2449 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2450 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2451 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2452 * Preliminary RTP support.
2453 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2458 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2459 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2461 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2462 - Improvements and help in preferences
2463 - New streaming wizard
2464 - Revised Disc Open menu
2466 - Improvements of the standard pages
2467 - Support for new commands
2468 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2471 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2472 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2475 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2476 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2477 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2478 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2479 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2480 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2481 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2482 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2483 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2486 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2488 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2489 * Support for Panther.
2490 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2491 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2494 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2495 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2496 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2497 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2498 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2499 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2500 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2501 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2504 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2505 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2506 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2509 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2512 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2513 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2514 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2515 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2518 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2519 --------------------------------
2522 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2525 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2526 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2529 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2530 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2533 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2536 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2537 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2540 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2543 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2546 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2547 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2551 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2552 --------------------------------
2555 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2556 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2560 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2561 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2562 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2564 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2565 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2568 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2571 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2574 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2575 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2579 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2580 --------------------------------
2583 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2584 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2588 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2589 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2590 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2591 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2592 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2595 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2596 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2597 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2600 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2601 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2602 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2605 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2606 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2607 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2608 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2609 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2612 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2613 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2614 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2617 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2620 * Improved build system.
2621 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2622 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2623 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2624 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2627 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2628 --------------------------------
2631 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2634 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2635 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2636 * Video 4 Linux support
2637 * CD Digital Audio support
2638 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2641 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2642 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2643 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2644 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2647 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2648 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2649 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2650 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2651 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2652 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2653 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2656 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2657 * New HTTP remote control interface
2660 * 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.
2661 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2662 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2663 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2666 * New reset option for the preferences
2667 * You can set your language in the prefences
2668 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2669 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2670 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2671 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2674 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2675 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2676 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2679 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2680 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2681 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2682 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2683 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2684 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2685 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2686 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2687 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2688 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2691 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2692 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2693 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2694 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2695 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2696 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2697 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2700 * Interface localization
2701 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2702 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2703 * New full-featured Preferences window
2706 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2707 --------------------------------
2710 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2711 * support for skins at the interface level
2712 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2713 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2714 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2715 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2716 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2719 * fixed HTTP redirects
2720 * support for opening an entire directory
2721 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2722 * new video4linux access plug-in
2723 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2726 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2727 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2728 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2731 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2732 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2733 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2734 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2735 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2736 * new codec for raw I420 video
2737 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2740 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2741 (although it still misses some important features)
2742 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2745 * new HTTP output support
2746 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2747 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2750 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2753 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2756 * reorderable playlist
2757 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2758 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2759 * support for mono audio output devices
2760 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2761 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2762 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2763 * the messages window remembers more lines
2764 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2765 * http and ogg stream output options
2766 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2769 * new skinnable interface
2770 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2772 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2773 * support for FLAC audio format
2774 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2776 * network tab in the interface
2777 * "apply" handling in preferences
2780 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2781 ---------------------------------
2784 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2785 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2786 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2787 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2789 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2790 * DTS S/PDIF support
2793 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2794 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2795 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2796 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2799 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2800 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2803 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2806 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2809 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2811 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2812 * rc interface is now fully useable
2813 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2816 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2817 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2818 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2819 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2820 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2822 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2823 * support for mouse gestures
2824 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2827 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2828 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2831 * improved ID3 tag detection
2832 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2833 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2834 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2836 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2839 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2840 ---------------------------------
2843 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2844 English was set as the preferred language
2847 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2848 --------------------------------
2851 * new mouse gesture interface
2852 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2856 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2857 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2858 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2861 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2862 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2866 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2869 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2870 without the user consent
2873 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2875 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2876 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2877 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2880 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2881 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2882 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2883 * playlist enhancements
2884 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2885 * new step forward/step backward commands
2886 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2887 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2888 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2891 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2892 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2893 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2896 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2897 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2900 * native video output is working again
2901 * only commandline interface support
2902 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2905 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2906 --------------------------------
2909 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2910 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2911 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2912 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2913 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2914 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2915 and A/52 streams are supported)
2916 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2921 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2922 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2923 * VCD entry points support
2924 * VCD image file support
2927 * support for *.asf format
2928 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2929 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2930 * support for ogg encapsulation
2931 * support for raw DV format
2932 * support for *.wav format
2933 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2936 Stream discovery & playlists:
2937 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2938 * support for .m3u file format
2939 * support for .asx file format
2940 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2943 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2944 (only available with the .avi demux)
2945 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2946 * support for raw PCM data
2947 * support for Cinepak video codec
2948 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2949 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2950 * support for Xvid codec
2951 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2952 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2953 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2955 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2957 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2960 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2963 * new WxWindows interface
2964 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2965 device and the channels configuration
2966 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2967 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2968 format that VLC can play
2969 * new swedish translation
2970 * enhancements of the playlist window
2971 * new messages window to see debug info
2972 * fixed a few crashes
2975 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2976 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2977 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2978 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working