1 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0-test3:
2 ---------------------------------------
6 * This release will not work with Windows 98/ME and Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther)
7 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
8 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
9 edit the ".hosts" file.
10 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
11 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
12 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
13 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
14 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
15 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
16 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
17 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
18 This interface has a fullscreen controller. This interface lacks the
19 "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
20 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
21 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
22 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
23 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
24 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
25 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
26 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
27 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
28 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
29 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
30 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
31 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
32 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
33 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
34 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
35 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
36 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
37 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
38 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
40 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
41 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
42 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
43 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
45 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
47 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
48 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
50 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
51 * Glide video output module has been removed.
52 * Due to lack of maintainer, the Skins interface might not work properly.
58 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-??)
61 * Vastly improved playlist support:
62 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
64 * Shoutcast TV listings
65 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
67 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
68 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
69 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
70 share/lua/meta/README.txt
73 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
74 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
75 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
76 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
77 * JACK audio input support
78 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
79 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
80 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
81 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
82 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
83 * Experimental EyeTV access module
84 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
85 (available as a separate download).
86 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
88 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
89 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
90 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
92 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
93 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
96 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
97 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
98 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
99 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
101 * APEv1/2 tags support
102 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
103 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
105 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
106 * TiVo Series 2 support
107 * CD+G karaoke Files support
112 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
113 * Flash Screen Video support
114 * CamStudio Screen Video support
115 * DosBox Capture support
116 * Karl Morton's Video support
117 * limited atrac3 support
119 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
120 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
121 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
123 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
124 * NellyMoser ASAO support
125 * APE (Monkey audio) support
126 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
127 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
130 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
131 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
132 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
133 * AQTitle subtitles support
134 * MKV USF subtitles support
135 * HTML-based subtitles support
136 * MPSub subtitles support
137 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
138 * MPL2 subtitles support
139 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
140 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
141 * Realtext subtitle support
142 * DKS subtitle support
143 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
144 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
147 * Flash Screen Video support
148 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
150 Video outputs and filters:
151 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
152 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
153 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
154 * New puzzle video output filter
155 * Re-written motion detection video filter
156 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
158 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
159 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
160 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
161 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
162 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
163 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
164 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
165 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
166 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
167 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
168 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
169 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
170 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
172 Audio outputs and filters:
173 * Replay gain support
174 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
175 * New spatializer audio filter
176 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
179 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
180 * New RTP payload formats:
181 * Speex voice audio codec
182 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
183 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
184 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
185 * DCCP transport for RTP
186 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
191 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
192 end-user suitable way.
193 * Improved user interaction
194 * Improved mouse gestures
195 * Vastly improved Update checker
196 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
198 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
199 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
201 * Improved video output features
202 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
203 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
204 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
205 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
206 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
208 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
209 if libncursesw is available.
210 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
211 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
213 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
214 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
215 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
216 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
217 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
218 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
219 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
220 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
223 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
224 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
225 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
228 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
229 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
230 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
231 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
232 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
233 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
236 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
237 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
246 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
247 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
248 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
251 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
252 ----------------------------------
255 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
258 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
259 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
260 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
261 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
262 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
263 * Updated Polish translation
266 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
267 ----------------------------------
270 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
271 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
272 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
275 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
276 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
277 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
278 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
279 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
280 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
281 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
282 to an unexpected application termination
283 * New Serbian translation
284 * Updated Romanian translation
287 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
288 ----------------------------------
291 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
292 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
293 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
294 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
295 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
296 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
297 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
298 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
301 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
302 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
303 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
304 * Fixed AAC resampling
305 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
306 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
309 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
310 ----------------------------------
313 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
314 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
315 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
316 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
317 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
320 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
321 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
322 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
323 * Close MMS access on network timeout
324 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
327 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
328 ----------------------------------
331 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
332 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
335 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
336 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
337 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
338 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
340 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
344 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
347 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
350 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
353 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
356 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
357 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
358 encoding on multi-cpu systems
359 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
360 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
362 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
363 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
364 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
365 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
368 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
371 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
372 ----------------------------------
375 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
376 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
377 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
379 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
380 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
382 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
383 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
386 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
388 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
389 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
390 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
391 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
392 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
393 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
395 * Support for current Ogg file formats
396 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
397 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
400 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
403 * The automatic updating facility was removed
404 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
405 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
406 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
409 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
410 ----------------------------------
412 Various bugfixes, notably:
413 * Windows Vista compatibility
414 * Cropping in Direct3D
415 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
416 * RSS filter string overflow
418 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
420 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
421 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
424 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
425 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
428 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
431 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
434 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
437 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
438 ----------------------------------
440 Various bugfixes, notably:
441 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
442 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
443 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
444 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
445 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
446 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
449 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
450 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
453 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
455 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
456 * Diverse usability improvements
457 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
458 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
459 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
462 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
463 ---------------------------------
466 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
469 * Fullscreen controller improvements
472 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
473 --------------------------------
476 * Shoutcast TV listings support
479 * Support for RTSP authentication
480 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
481 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
482 * ATSC support for DVB input
483 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
484 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
485 * Improved support for Flash Video files
488 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
489 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
490 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
491 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
492 * Matroska WavPack support
493 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
494 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
495 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
498 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
499 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
500 * Improved libcaca support
504 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
505 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
507 * Systray support in skins
509 * Support for Apple Remote control
510 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
511 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
512 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
513 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
515 * Notifications using notification-daemon
518 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
520 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
521 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
522 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
523 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
524 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
526 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
527 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
536 * Updates to the libvlc API
537 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
540 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
541 --------------------------------
544 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
545 * Support for downloading updates
549 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
550 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
551 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
552 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
554 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
555 * Improved subtitles encoding support
556 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
559 * Cook (Real audio) support
561 Playlist / Services discovery:
562 * XSPF playlist support
564 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
567 * New JACK audio output
571 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
572 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
573 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
574 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
575 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
576 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
579 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
582 * System to inform the user and request information
583 - HTTP authentication
587 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
588 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
589 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
592 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
593 - Improved playlist handling
594 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
596 - Embedded Video output
597 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
598 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
599 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
600 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
601 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
603 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
604 - A bunch of new RPN functions
607 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
610 * Mac-Intel compatibility
611 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
612 * Growl "Now playing" support
615 * Ability to log to syslog
616 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
619 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
621 * A bit more automatic testing
624 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
625 ---------------------------------
628 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
629 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
632 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
633 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
636 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
639 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
640 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
646 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
649 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
650 --------------------------------
653 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
657 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
658 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
659 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
662 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
663 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
664 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
665 * GnomeVFS input module
666 * Support for RTP packet reordering
667 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
670 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
671 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
672 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
675 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
676 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
682 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
683 Mixer and Dolby Surround
686 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
687 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
688 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
691 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
693 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
694 - New extended controls panel
695 - New bookmarks window
696 - Fixed playlist sorting
697 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
699 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
700 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
701 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
702 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
706 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
707 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
709 - Include macro to include other files
713 * Should now work outside IE as well
716 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
719 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
720 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
723 The following languages were added:
728 The following languages were re-added:
732 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
733 --------------------------------
736 * Rewrite of the playlist
738 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
739 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
740 * Preferences improvements:
741 - New organization, designed to improve usability
742 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
744 * Core image manipulation support
745 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
746 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
747 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
748 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
749 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
750 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
751 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
752 now separated by ':' instead of ','
753 * Access filter architecture
754 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
755 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
759 * Support for SOCKS proxy
760 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
761 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
762 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
763 * Better support for Kasenna streams
764 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
765 * Massive Matroska improvements
766 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
768 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
769 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
770 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
771 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
772 * Support for FTP over IPv6
775 * Dirac decoder and encoder
776 * PNG decoder/encoder
777 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
778 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
781 * New Record and Timeshift filters
784 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
785 * Brand new SAP module
786 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
787 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
788 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
789 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
790 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
791 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
795 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
798 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
799 * Image file video output (png)
800 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
801 * Improvements to wall video filter
802 * Support for font color and opacity
808 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
809 - Seeking support in VoD streams
810 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
814 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
815 - Improved preferences
816 - Improvements to the wizard
817 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
819 - Redesigned playlist
820 - Improved preferences
822 - Support for multiple actions
825 - Support for the new playlist system
827 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
830 * Screensaver disabling fix
831 * DirectShow tuner configuration
832 * Support for no-decoration windows
835 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
836 * The OpenGL video output is back
837 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
838 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
839 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
840 is not yet available in the new module
841 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
844 * Support for single-buffered overlay
853 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
856 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
859 The following languages were added:
865 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
866 --------------------------------
869 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
870 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
873 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
874 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
875 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
878 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
881 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
884 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
887 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
888 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
889 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
893 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
895 * Support of playlist group announcement
898 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
899 --------------------------------
902 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
903 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
904 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
905 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
906 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
907 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
910 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
911 (Stream your desktop)
912 * Improved DVD support:
913 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
914 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
915 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
916 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
917 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
918 (selection of titles/chapters).
921 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
922 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
923 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
924 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
925 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
926 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
927 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
928 * Improved Ogg demuxer
929 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
930 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
933 * G.726 audio support
934 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
935 * MPEG-4 text support
936 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
937 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
938 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
942 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
943 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
944 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
945 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
946 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
947 * DVB subtitles encoder
948 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
949 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
951 * Text track muxing for mp4
952 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
953 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
954 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
955 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
956 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
959 * H.263 RTP streaming support
960 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
961 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
964 * New audio equalizer filter
965 * Very trivial volume normalizer
966 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
967 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
968 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
971 * Roku HD1000 Video output
972 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
973 with support for effects.
974 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
975 - New filters can be streamed.
976 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
977 - Centralized scaling and blending
979 - "time", to display current time
980 - "marq", to display a marquee
983 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
984 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
985 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
986 * A few skins2 improvements
987 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
988 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
989 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
990 * Improved CORBA control module
993 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
994 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
995 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
998 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
999 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1000 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1003 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1004 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1005 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1006 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1007 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1010 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1013 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1014 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1017 * Server/client network synchronization module
1018 * VBrick streams fully supported
1019 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1023 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1024 --------------------------------
1027 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1028 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1029 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1030 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1033 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1034 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1035 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1036 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1037 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1038 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1039 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1042 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1043 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1044 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1045 * Improved directory access module.
1046 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1047 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1048 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1049 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1050 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1053 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1054 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1055 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1058 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1059 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1060 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1063 * Improved session announcement system.
1064 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1065 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1066 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1067 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1068 * Improved transrater.
1069 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1070 * New configuration system.
1071 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1074 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1075 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1076 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1077 * Supports scheduling.
1078 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1079 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1082 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1083 - Ability to embed video output.
1084 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1085 - Lots of improvements.
1086 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1087 - New design and set of icons.
1088 - Ability to embed video output.
1089 - Support for hotkeys.
1090 - Support for bookmarks.
1092 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1093 - Better hotkeys handling.
1096 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1097 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1098 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1099 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1102 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1103 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1104 * Improved Windows installer.
1110 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1111 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1114 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1115 ---------------------------------
1118 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1119 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1122 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1123 --------------------------------
1126 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1127 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1130 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1131 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1132 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1133 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1136 * Internal improvments
1137 * Improved import/export
1140 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1142 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1143 small and strange formats.
1145 * New MOD audio demux.
1146 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1147 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1148 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1149 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1152 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1153 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1154 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1160 * New opengl video output plugin.
1163 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1164 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1167 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1168 --------------------------------
1171 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1172 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1173 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1174 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1175 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1176 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1177 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1178 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1181 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1186 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1187 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1188 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1189 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1190 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1191 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1192 * Better Icecast support.
1193 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1194 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1197 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1198 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1199 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1200 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1201 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1202 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1203 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1206 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1207 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1208 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1209 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1210 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1211 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1212 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1213 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1214 * Preliminary RTP support.
1215 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1220 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1221 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1223 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1224 - Improvements and help in preferences
1225 - New streaming wizard
1226 - Revised Disc Open menu
1228 - Improvements of the standard pages
1229 - Support for new commands
1230 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1233 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1234 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1237 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1238 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1239 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1240 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1241 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1242 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1243 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1244 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1245 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1248 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1250 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1251 * Support for Panther.
1252 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1253 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1256 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1257 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1258 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1259 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1260 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1261 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1262 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1263 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1266 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1267 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1268 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1271 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1274 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1275 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1276 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1277 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1280 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1281 --------------------------------
1284 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1287 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1288 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1291 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1292 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1295 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1298 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1299 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1302 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1305 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1308 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1309 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1313 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1314 --------------------------------
1317 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1318 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1322 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1323 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1324 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1326 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1327 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1330 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1333 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1336 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1337 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1341 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1342 --------------------------------
1345 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1346 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1350 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1351 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1352 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1353 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1354 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1357 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1358 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1359 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1362 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1363 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1364 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1367 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1368 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1369 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1370 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1371 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1374 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1375 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1376 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1379 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1382 * Improved build system.
1383 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1384 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1385 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1386 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1389 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1390 --------------------------------
1393 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1396 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1397 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1398 * Video 4 Linux support
1399 * CD Digital Audio support
1400 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1403 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1404 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1405 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1406 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1409 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1410 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1411 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1412 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1413 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1414 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1415 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1418 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1419 * New HTTP remote control interface
1422 * 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.
1423 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1424 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1425 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1428 * New reset option for the preferences
1429 * You can set your language in the prefences
1430 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1431 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1432 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1433 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1436 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1437 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1438 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1441 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1442 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1443 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1444 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1445 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1446 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1447 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1448 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1449 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1450 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1453 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1454 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1455 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1456 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1457 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1458 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1459 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1462 * Interface localization
1463 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1464 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1465 * New full-featured Preferences window
1468 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1469 --------------------------------
1472 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1473 * support for skins at the interface level
1474 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1475 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1476 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1477 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1478 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1481 * fixed HTTP redirects
1482 * support for opening an entire directory
1483 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1484 * new video4linux access plug-in
1485 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1488 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1489 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1490 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1493 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1494 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1495 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1496 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1497 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1498 * new codec for raw I420 video
1499 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1502 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1503 (although it still misses some important features)
1504 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1507 * new HTTP output support
1508 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1509 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1512 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1515 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1518 * reorderable playlist
1519 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1520 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1521 * support for mono audio output devices
1522 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1523 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1524 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1525 * the messages window remembers more lines
1526 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1527 * http and ogg stream output options
1528 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1531 * new skinnable interface
1532 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1534 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1535 * support for FLAC audio format
1536 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1538 * network tab in the interface
1539 * "apply" handling in preferences
1542 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1543 ---------------------------------
1546 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1547 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1548 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1549 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1551 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1552 * DTS S/PDIF support
1555 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1556 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1557 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1558 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1561 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1562 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1565 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1568 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1571 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1573 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1574 * rc interface is now fully useable
1575 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1578 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1579 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1580 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1581 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1582 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1584 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1585 * support for mouse gestures
1586 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1589 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1590 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1593 * improved ID3 tag detection
1594 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1595 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1596 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1598 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1601 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1602 ---------------------------------
1605 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1606 English was set as the preferred language
1609 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1610 --------------------------------
1613 * new mouse gesture interface
1614 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1618 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1619 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1620 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1623 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1624 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1628 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1631 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1632 without the user consent
1635 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1637 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1638 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1639 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1642 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1643 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1644 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1645 * playlist enhancements
1646 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1647 * new step forward/step backward commands
1648 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1649 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1650 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1653 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1654 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1655 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1658 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1659 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1662 * native video output is working again
1663 * only commandline interface support
1664 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1667 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1668 --------------------------------
1671 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1672 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1673 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1674 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1675 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1676 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1677 and A/52 streams are supported)
1678 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1683 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1684 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1685 * VCD entry points support
1686 * VCD image file support
1689 * support for *.asf format
1690 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1691 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1692 * support for ogg encapsulation
1693 * support for raw DV format
1694 * support for *.wav format
1695 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1698 Stream discovery & playlists:
1699 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1700 * support for .m3u file format
1701 * support for .asx file format
1702 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1705 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1706 (only available with the .avi demux)
1707 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1708 * support for raw PCM data
1709 * support for Cinepak video codec
1710 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1711 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1712 * support for Xvid codec
1713 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1714 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1715 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1717 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1719 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1722 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1725 * new WxWindows interface
1726 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1727 device and the channels configuration
1728 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1729 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1730 format that VLC can play
1731 * new swedish translation
1732 * enhancements of the playlist window
1733 * new messages window to see debug info
1734 * fixed a few crashes
1737 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1738 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1739 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1740 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working