1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
6 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
7 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
8 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
9 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
10 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
11 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
12 --http-crl (optional CRL).
13 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
14 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
16 Important changes for packagers:
17 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
18 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
19 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
20 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
21 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
22 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
23 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
24 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
25 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
26 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
27 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
29 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
30 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
33 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
34 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
35 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
36 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
37 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
38 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
41 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
42 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
43 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
44 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
45 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
46 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
47 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
48 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
49 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
50 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
51 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
52 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
53 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
54 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
55 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
58 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
59 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
60 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
61 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
62 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
63 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
66 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
67 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
68 * Ogg seeking improvements
69 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
70 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
71 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
72 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
75 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
76 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
77 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
78 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
79 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
80 and important cleanups and optimisations
81 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
82 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
83 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
84 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
85 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
86 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
87 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
88 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
89 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
90 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
93 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
94 * New video output for iOS platform
95 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
96 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
97 * Various vmem improvements
98 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
100 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
101 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
104 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
105 * New audio output in memory (amem)
106 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
107 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
108 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
111 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
112 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
113 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
114 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
115 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
116 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
117 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
118 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
119 * New anti-flickering filter
120 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
121 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
122 blackbox and customizable shadow
125 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
128 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
129 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
130 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
131 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
132 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
133 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
134 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
135 * Major rework of VoD support
136 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
137 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
138 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
139 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
140 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
141 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
142 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
143 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
144 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
147 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
148 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
151 * New capabilities for libVLC:
152 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
153 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
154 list of available audio and video filters
155 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
156 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
159 * asademux: use libass only
160 * subsass: use libass
161 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
162 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
164 * upnp: use upnp_intel
165 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
166 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
167 * removal of the noise filter
168 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
171 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
172 ----------------------------------
175 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
176 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
179 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
180 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
181 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
182 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
183 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
185 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
186 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
187 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
189 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
190 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
193 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
196 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
199 * Fix quitting on Linux
200 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
204 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
207 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
210 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
211 ---------------------------------
213 Windows and Mac OS X:
214 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
217 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
218 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
221 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
224 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
227 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
229 Miscellaneous fixes in:
230 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
232 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
233 * RTP output and XML export
234 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
238 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
239 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
240 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
241 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
244 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
245 --------------------------------
247 Windows and Mac OS X:
248 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
251 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
254 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
255 * Improve Apple Remote handling
256 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
257 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
258 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
259 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
262 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
263 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
267 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
268 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
269 * New Luganda Translation
272 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
273 --------------------------------
276 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
279 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
280 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
281 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
282 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
285 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
287 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
288 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
289 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
290 * mp4 demuxer improvements
291 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
292 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
293 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
294 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
296 Miscellaneous fixes in:
297 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
298 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
299 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
300 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
301 * Configure and build system improvements
302 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
305 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
306 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
307 * New icelandic translation
310 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
311 --------------------------------
314 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
318 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
319 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
320 and stability reasons
323 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
327 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
330 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
331 ----------------------------------
334 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
337 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
338 ---------------------------------
341 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
342 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
343 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
344 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
347 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
350 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
351 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
352 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
353 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
356 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
357 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
358 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
360 Subtitles and renderer:
361 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
362 * Mark more freetype options as safe
363 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
364 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
365 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
368 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
369 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
370 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
371 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
374 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
375 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
378 * KDE device solid actions
380 * Transcode integer overflow
381 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
382 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
385 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
386 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
387 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
390 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
391 ----------------------------------
394 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
398 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
401 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
404 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
405 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
406 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
407 * Taglib thread-safety fix
410 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
414 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
417 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
420 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
421 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
423 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
427 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
428 * Miscellaneous fixes
431 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
432 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
434 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
435 * New Asturian translation
438 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
439 ----------------------------------
442 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
444 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
447 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
450 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
451 * Various fixes for Windows
454 * New Armenian translation
455 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
456 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
459 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
460 --------------------------------
463 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
465 * Fix folders opening from the interface
468 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
469 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
472 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
473 --------------------------------
476 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
477 * fix for podcasts parsing
478 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
481 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
482 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
485 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
486 * fix m3u playlists exports
489 * fix video autoresize behaviour
492 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
495 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
498 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
501 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
504 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
505 --------------------------------
508 * Avformat fps displaying fix
509 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
512 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
513 of mono streams, especially on Windows
516 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
517 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
518 * fix console output encoding
520 Interface and extensions:
521 * Youtube and other scripts updates
522 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
525 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
526 --------------------------------
529 * New capabilities for libVLC:
530 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
531 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
532 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
533 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
534 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
535 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
536 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
537 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
538 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
539 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
540 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
541 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
542 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
543 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
544 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
548 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
549 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
550 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
551 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
552 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
555 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
558 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
559 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
560 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
564 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
567 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
568 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
569 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
572 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
573 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
574 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
575 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
578 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
579 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
582 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
583 --------------------------------
585 Important changes for users:
586 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
587 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
589 Important changes for packagers:
590 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
591 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
592 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
593 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
594 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
596 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
598 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
599 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
600 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
601 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
602 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
605 * Support for the sftp protocol
606 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
607 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
608 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
609 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
610 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
613 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
614 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
615 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
617 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
618 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
619 * Invmem module improvements
620 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
621 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
622 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
623 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
624 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
625 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
626 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
627 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
628 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
629 * Support for VP8 codec
630 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
633 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
634 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
635 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
636 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
637 * Various EGP improvements
638 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
639 * Metadata and cover art improvements
642 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
643 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
644 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
645 * Podcast images are now displayed
648 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
649 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
650 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
651 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
652 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
653 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
654 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
655 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
656 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
657 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
658 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
661 * New content extensions lua framework
664 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
665 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
666 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
667 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
668 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
669 * NEON assembly audio converter module
670 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
673 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
674 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
675 * Service discovery based on libudev
676 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
679 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
680 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
681 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
682 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
683 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
684 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
685 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
688 * New smem module, streaming to memory
689 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
690 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
693 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
695 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
696 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
699 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
702 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
703 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
704 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
705 by Andy Matuschak et al.
706 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
707 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
708 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
711 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
712 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
715 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
716 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
717 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
721 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
722 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
723 * Improved Solaris port
726 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
727 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
730 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
731 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
732 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
733 * transrate: broken since too long
734 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
735 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
736 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
737 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
738 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
739 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
740 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
741 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
742 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
743 * cddax: use cdda instead.
744 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
745 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
746 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
747 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
750 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
751 --------------------------------
754 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
756 Decoders/Packetizers:
757 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
760 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
761 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
762 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
763 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
764 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
767 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
768 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
771 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
772 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
775 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
776 and Walloon translations updated
777 * Sinhala translation started
780 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
781 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
784 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
785 --------------------------------
788 * SubRip extra styles improvements
789 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
792 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
795 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
796 increase performance and fix x264 issues
799 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
800 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
801 Russian, Slovak translation updates
802 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
805 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
806 --------------------------------
809 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
810 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
813 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
814 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
817 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
818 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
821 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
824 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
825 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
828 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
829 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
832 * New Walloon translation
833 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
836 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
837 --------------------------------
840 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
841 regressions in most popular drivers
842 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
845 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
846 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
847 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
850 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
851 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
854 * Update for appletrailers lua script
855 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
856 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
857 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
858 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
861 * New udev module for linux
864 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
867 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
870 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
871 --------------------------------
874 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
875 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
876 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
879 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
880 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
883 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
884 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
887 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
890 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
891 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
892 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
893 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
896 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
897 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
898 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
899 - no support for Goom and SDL
900 - limited text rendering support
901 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
904 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
905 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
906 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
907 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
908 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
909 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
910 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
911 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
912 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
916 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
919 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
922 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
923 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
924 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
925 Arabic and French translation updates
928 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
929 --------------------------------
932 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
933 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
934 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
935 * Fix Dailymotion access script
936 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
937 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
940 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
941 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
944 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
945 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
946 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
949 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
952 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
953 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
956 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
957 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
958 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
959 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
960 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
961 * Fix various crashes
964 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
966 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
969 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
970 ---------------------------------
974 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
975 See 'Access:' for more info.
976 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
979 * Instantaneous pausing
980 * Frame-by-Frame playback
981 * Finer speed control
982 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
983 * Timeshift for most medias
984 * RTSP trickplay support
985 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
988 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
989 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
990 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
991 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
992 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
993 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
994 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
995 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
996 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
997 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1000 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1001 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1002 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1003 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1004 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1005 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1006 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1009 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1010 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1013 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1014 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1015 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1016 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1017 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1018 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1019 * DVB scanning on linux
1020 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1021 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1022 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1023 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1024 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1025 * MTP device access on Unix
1026 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1027 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1030 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1031 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1032 Windows and Mac OS X.
1035 * Export the playlist in HTML
1036 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1037 * Better metadata handling and reading
1039 Linux/Windows interface:
1040 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1041 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1042 * Recently played items list
1043 * Interface toolbar customizations
1044 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1045 - More menus actions
1046 - Finer speed slider
1047 - Improvements on many dialogs
1048 - New dialog for plugins listing
1049 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1050 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1051 * Better integration in GTK environments
1054 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1055 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1056 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1057 * Additional usability improvements
1060 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1061 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1062 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1063 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1064 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1067 * New Maemo port with:
1068 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1069 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1072 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1075 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1076 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1077 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1078 * Support for latest iSight models
1081 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1082 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1085 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1086 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1087 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1088 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1089 The old image video output has been removed.
1090 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1091 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1094 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1102 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1103 --------------------------------------
1109 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1110 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1111 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1112 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1113 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1114 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1115 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1117 Various fixes to the following modules:
1120 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1121 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1122 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1124 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1129 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1130 ---------------------------------
1133 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1134 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1137 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1138 ---------------------------------
1141 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1144 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1147 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1148 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1149 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1150 main controller window.
1151 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1154 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1159 * Updates of other localizations
1162 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1163 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1164 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1165 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1166 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1169 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1170 ---------------------------------
1173 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1175 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1178 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1179 --------------------------------
1184 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1185 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1188 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1189 --------------------------------
1191 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1192 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1195 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1198 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1199 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1202 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1203 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1206 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1207 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1208 * Various fixed in playlist
1211 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1214 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1217 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1218 ------------------------------------
1220 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1221 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1224 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1225 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1226 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1229 * Stability fix for the video output.
1232 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1233 --------------------------------
1236 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1237 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1238 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1239 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1240 * Fixed update system bugs
1241 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1244 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1245 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1246 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1247 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1248 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1249 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1250 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1251 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1252 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1253 modern Mac OS X versions
1256 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1257 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1259 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1260 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1263 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1264 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1265 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1266 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1267 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1268 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1271 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1272 --------------------------------
1274 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1275 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1276 * Multiple bugfixes.
1279 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1280 --------------------------------
1282 * Multiple bug fixes.
1285 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1286 ---------------------------------
1290 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1291 recent to work correctly
1292 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1293 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1294 edit the ".hosts" file.
1295 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1296 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1297 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1298 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1299 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1300 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1301 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1302 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1303 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1304 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1305 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1306 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1307 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1308 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1309 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1310 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1311 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1312 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1313 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1314 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1315 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1316 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1317 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1318 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1319 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1320 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1321 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1322 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1323 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1324 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1325 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1326 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1327 and postproc modules.
1328 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1329 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1330 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1331 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1333 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1334 filter. For example:
1335 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1336 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1338 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1339 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1345 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1347 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1348 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1351 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1352 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1354 * Shoutcast TV listings
1355 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1357 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1358 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1360 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1363 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1364 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1365 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1366 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1367 * JACK audio input support
1368 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1369 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1370 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1371 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1372 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1373 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1374 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1375 (available as a separate download).
1376 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1377 * RTMP input support
1378 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1379 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1380 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1382 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1383 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1386 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1387 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1388 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1389 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1391 * APEv1/2 tags support
1392 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1393 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1395 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1396 * TiVo Series 2 support
1397 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1402 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1403 * Flash Screen Video support
1404 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1405 * DosBox Capture support
1406 * Karl Morton's Video support
1407 * limited atrac3 support
1409 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1410 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1411 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1412 * H.264 PAFF support
1413 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1414 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1415 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1416 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1417 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1420 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1421 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1422 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1423 * AQTitle subtitles support
1424 * MKV USF subtitles support
1425 * HTML-based subtitles support
1426 * MPSub subtitles support
1427 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1428 * MPL2 subtitles support
1429 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1430 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1431 * Realtext subtitle support
1432 * DKS subtitle support
1433 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1434 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1437 * Flash Screen Video support
1438 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1440 Video outputs and filters:
1441 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1442 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1443 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1444 * New puzzle video output filter
1445 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1446 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1448 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1449 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1450 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1451 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1452 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1453 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1454 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1455 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1456 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1457 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1458 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1459 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1460 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1461 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1463 Audio outputs and filters:
1464 * Replay gain support
1465 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1466 new scaletempo audio filter)
1467 * New spatializer audio filter
1468 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1471 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1472 * New RTP payload formats:
1473 * Speex voice audio codec
1474 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1475 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1476 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1477 * DCCP transport for RTP
1478 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1483 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1484 end-user suitable way.
1485 * Improved user interaction
1486 * Improved mouse gestures
1487 * Vastly improved Update checker
1488 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1490 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1491 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1493 * Improved video output features
1494 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1495 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1496 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1497 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1498 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1500 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1501 if libncursesw is available.
1502 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1503 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1504 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1506 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1507 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1508 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1509 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1510 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1511 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1512 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1513 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1516 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1517 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1518 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1521 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1522 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1523 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1524 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1525 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1526 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1529 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1530 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1540 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1541 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1542 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1545 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1546 ----------------------------------
1549 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1552 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1553 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1554 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1555 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1556 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1557 * Updated Polish translation
1560 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1561 ----------------------------------
1564 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1565 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1566 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1569 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1570 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1571 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1572 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1573 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1574 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1575 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1576 to an unexpected application termination
1577 * New Serbian translation
1578 * Updated Romanian translation
1581 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1582 ----------------------------------
1585 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1586 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1587 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1588 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1589 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1590 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1591 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1592 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1595 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1596 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1597 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1598 * Fixed AAC resampling
1599 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1600 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1603 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1604 ----------------------------------
1607 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1608 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1609 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1610 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1611 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1614 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1615 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1616 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1617 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1618 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1621 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1622 ----------------------------------
1625 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1626 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1629 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1630 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1631 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1632 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1634 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1638 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1641 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1644 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1647 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1650 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1651 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1652 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1653 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1654 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1656 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1657 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1658 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1659 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1662 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1665 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1666 ----------------------------------
1669 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1670 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1671 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1673 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1674 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1676 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1677 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1680 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1682 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1683 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1684 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1685 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1686 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1687 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1688 two different movies
1689 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1690 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1691 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1694 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1697 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1698 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1699 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1700 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1703 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1704 ----------------------------------
1706 Various bugfixes, notably:
1707 * Windows Vista compatibility
1708 * Cropping in Direct3D
1709 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1710 * RSS filter string overflow
1712 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1714 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1715 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1718 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1719 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1722 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1725 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1728 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1731 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1732 ----------------------------------
1734 Various bugfixes, notably:
1735 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1736 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1737 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1738 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1739 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1740 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1743 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1744 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1747 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1749 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1750 * Diverse usability improvements
1751 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1752 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1753 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1756 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1757 ---------------------------------
1759 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1760 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1763 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1766 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1767 --------------------------------
1770 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1773 * Support for RTSP authentication
1774 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1775 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1776 * ATSC support for DVB input
1777 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1778 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1779 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1782 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1783 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1784 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1785 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1786 * Matroska WavPack support
1787 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1788 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1789 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1792 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1793 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1794 * Improved libcaca support
1798 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1799 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1801 * Systray support in skins
1803 * Support for Apple Remote control
1804 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1805 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1806 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1807 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1809 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1812 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1813 Windows 9x/ME users:
1814 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1815 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1816 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1817 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1818 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1820 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1821 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1830 * Updates to the libvlc API
1831 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1834 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1835 --------------------------------
1838 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1839 * Support for downloading updates
1843 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1844 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1845 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1846 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1848 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1849 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1850 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1853 * Cook (Real audio) support
1855 Playlist / Services discovery:
1856 * XSPF playlist support
1858 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1861 * New JACK audio output
1864 * New video filters:
1865 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1866 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1867 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1868 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1869 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1870 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1873 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1876 * System to inform the user and request information
1877 - HTTP authentication
1881 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1882 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1883 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1886 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1887 - Improved playlist handling
1888 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1890 - Embedded Video output
1891 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1892 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1893 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1894 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1895 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1897 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1898 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1901 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1904 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1905 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1906 * Growl "Now playing" support
1909 * Ability to log to syslog
1910 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1913 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1915 * A bit more automatic testing
1918 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1919 ---------------------------------
1922 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1923 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1926 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1927 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1930 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1933 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1934 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1940 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1943 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1944 --------------------------------
1947 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1951 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1952 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1953 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1956 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1957 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1958 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1959 * GnomeVFS input module
1960 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1961 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1964 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1965 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1966 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1969 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1970 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1976 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1977 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1980 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1981 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1982 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1985 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1987 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1988 - New extended controls panel
1989 - New bookmarks window
1990 - Fixed playlist sorting
1991 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1993 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1994 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1995 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1996 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2000 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2001 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2003 - Include macro to include other files
2007 * Should now work outside IE as well
2010 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2013 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2014 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2017 The following languages were added:
2021 * Simplified Chinese
2022 The following languages were re-added:
2026 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2027 --------------------------------
2030 * Rewrite of the playlist
2032 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2033 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2034 * Preferences improvements:
2035 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2036 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2038 * Core image manipulation support
2039 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2040 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2041 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2042 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2043 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2044 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2045 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2046 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2047 * Access filter architecture
2048 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2049 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2053 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2054 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2055 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2056 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2057 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2058 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2059 * Massive Matroska improvements
2060 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2062 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2063 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2064 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2065 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2066 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2068 Decoders / Encoders:
2069 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2070 * PNG decoder/encoder
2071 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2072 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2075 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2078 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2079 * Brand new SAP module
2080 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2081 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2082 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2083 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2084 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2085 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2089 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2092 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2093 * Image file video output (png)
2094 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2095 * Improvements to wall video filter
2096 * Support for font color and opacity
2102 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2103 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2104 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2108 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2109 - Improved preferences
2110 - Improvements to the wizard
2111 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2113 - Redesigned playlist
2114 - Improved preferences
2116 - Support for multiple actions
2119 - Support for the new playlist system
2121 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2124 * Screensaver disabling fix
2125 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2126 * Support for no-decoration windows
2129 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2130 * The OpenGL video output is back
2131 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2132 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2133 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2134 is not yet available in the new module
2135 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2138 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2147 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2150 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2153 The following languages were added:
2159 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2160 --------------------------------
2163 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2164 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2167 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2168 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2169 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2172 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2175 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2178 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2181 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2182 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2183 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2187 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2189 * Support of playlist group announcement
2192 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2193 --------------------------------
2196 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2197 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2198 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2199 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2200 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2201 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2204 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2205 (Stream your desktop)
2206 * Improved DVD support:
2207 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2208 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2209 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2210 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2211 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2212 (selection of titles/chapters).
2215 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2216 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2217 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2218 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2219 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2220 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2221 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2222 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2223 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2224 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2227 * G.726 audio support
2228 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2229 * MPEG-4 text support
2230 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2231 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2232 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2236 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2237 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2238 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2239 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2240 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2241 * DVB subtitles encoder
2242 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2243 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2245 * Text track muxing for mp4
2246 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2247 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2248 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2249 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2250 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2251 * Improved ASF muxer
2253 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2254 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2255 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2258 * New audio equalizer filter
2259 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2260 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2261 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2262 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2265 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2266 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2267 with support for effects.
2268 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2269 - New filters can be streamed.
2270 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2271 - Centralized scaling and blending
2273 - "time", to display current time
2274 - "marq", to display a marquee
2277 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2278 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2279 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2280 * A few skins2 improvements
2281 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2282 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2283 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2284 * Improved CORBA control module
2287 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2288 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2289 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2292 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2293 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2294 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2297 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2298 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2299 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2300 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2301 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2304 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2307 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2308 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2311 * Server/client network synchronization module
2312 * VBrick streams fully supported
2313 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2317 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2318 --------------------------------
2321 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2322 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2323 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2324 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2327 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2328 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2329 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2330 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2331 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2332 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2333 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2336 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2337 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2338 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2339 * Improved directory access module.
2340 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2341 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2342 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2343 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2344 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2347 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2348 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2349 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2352 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2353 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2354 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2357 * Improved session announcement system.
2358 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2359 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2360 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2361 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2362 * Improved transrater.
2363 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2364 * New configuration system.
2365 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2368 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2369 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2370 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2371 * Supports scheduling.
2372 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2373 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2376 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2377 - Ability to embed video output.
2378 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2379 - Lots of improvements.
2380 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2381 - New design and set of icons.
2382 - Ability to embed video output.
2383 - Support for hotkeys.
2384 - Support for bookmarks.
2386 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2387 - Better hotkeys handling.
2390 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2391 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2392 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2393 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2396 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2397 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2398 * Improved Windows installer.
2404 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2405 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2408 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2409 ---------------------------------
2412 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2413 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2416 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2417 --------------------------------
2420 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2421 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2424 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2425 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2426 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2427 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2430 * Internal improvments
2431 * Improved import/export
2434 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2436 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2437 small and strange formats.
2439 * New MOD audio demux.
2440 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2441 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2442 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2443 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2446 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2447 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2448 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2454 * New opengl video output plugin.
2457 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2458 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2461 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2462 --------------------------------
2465 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2466 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2467 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2468 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2469 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2470 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2471 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2472 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2475 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2480 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2481 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2482 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2483 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2484 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2485 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2486 * Better Icecast support.
2487 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2488 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2491 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2492 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2493 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2494 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2495 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2496 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2497 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2500 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2501 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2502 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2503 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2504 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2505 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2506 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2507 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2508 * Preliminary RTP support.
2509 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2514 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2515 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2517 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2518 - Improvements and help in preferences
2519 - New streaming wizard
2520 - Revised Disc Open menu
2522 - Improvements of the standard pages
2523 - Support for new commands
2524 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2527 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2528 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2531 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2532 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2533 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2534 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2535 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2536 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2537 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2538 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2539 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2542 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2544 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2545 * Support for Panther.
2546 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2547 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2550 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2551 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2552 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2553 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2554 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2555 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2556 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2557 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2560 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2561 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2562 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2565 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2568 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2569 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2570 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2571 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2574 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2575 --------------------------------
2578 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2581 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2582 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2585 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2586 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2589 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2592 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2593 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2596 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2599 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2602 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2603 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2607 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2608 --------------------------------
2611 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2612 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2616 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2617 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2618 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2620 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2621 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2624 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2627 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2630 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2631 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2635 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2636 --------------------------------
2639 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2640 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2644 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2645 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2646 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2647 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2648 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2651 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2652 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2653 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2656 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2657 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2658 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2661 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2662 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2663 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2664 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2665 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2668 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2669 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2670 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2673 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2676 * Improved build system.
2677 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2678 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2679 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2680 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2683 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2684 --------------------------------
2687 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2690 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2691 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2692 * Video 4 Linux support
2693 * CD Digital Audio support
2694 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2697 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2698 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2699 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2700 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2703 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2704 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2705 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2706 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2707 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2708 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2709 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2712 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2713 * New HTTP remote control interface
2716 * 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.
2717 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2718 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2719 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2722 * New reset option for the preferences
2723 * You can set your language in the prefences
2724 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2725 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2726 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2727 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2730 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2731 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2732 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2735 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2736 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2737 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2738 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2739 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2740 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2741 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2742 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2743 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2744 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2747 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2748 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2749 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2750 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2751 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2752 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2753 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2756 * Interface localization
2757 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2758 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2759 * New full-featured Preferences window
2762 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2763 --------------------------------
2766 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2767 * support for skins at the interface level
2768 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2769 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2770 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2771 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2772 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2775 * fixed HTTP redirects
2776 * support for opening an entire directory
2777 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2778 * new video4linux access plug-in
2779 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2782 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2783 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2784 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2787 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2788 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2789 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2790 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2791 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2792 * new codec for raw I420 video
2793 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2796 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2797 (although it still misses some important features)
2798 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2801 * new HTTP output support
2802 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2803 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2806 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2809 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2812 * reorderable playlist
2813 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2814 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2815 * support for mono audio output devices
2816 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2817 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2818 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2819 * the messages window remembers more lines
2820 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2821 * http and ogg stream output options
2822 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2825 * new skinnable interface
2826 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2828 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2829 * support for FLAC audio format
2830 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2832 * network tab in the interface
2833 * "apply" handling in preferences
2836 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2837 ---------------------------------
2840 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2841 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2842 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2843 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2845 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2846 * DTS S/PDIF support
2849 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2850 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2851 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2852 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2855 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2856 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2859 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2862 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2865 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2867 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2868 * rc interface is now fully useable
2869 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2872 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2873 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2874 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2875 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2876 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2878 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2879 * support for mouse gestures
2880 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2883 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2884 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2887 * improved ID3 tag detection
2888 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2889 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2890 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2892 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2895 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2896 ---------------------------------
2899 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2900 English was set as the preferred language
2903 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2904 --------------------------------
2907 * new mouse gesture interface
2908 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2912 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2913 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2914 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2917 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2918 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2922 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2925 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2926 without the user consent
2929 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2931 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2932 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2933 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2936 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2937 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2938 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2939 * playlist enhancements
2940 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2941 * new step forward/step backward commands
2942 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2943 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2944 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2947 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2948 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2949 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2952 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2953 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2956 * native video output is working again
2957 * only commandline interface support
2958 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2961 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2962 --------------------------------
2965 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2966 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2967 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2968 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2969 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2970 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2971 and A/52 streams are supported)
2972 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2977 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2978 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2979 * VCD entry points support
2980 * VCD image file support
2983 * support for *.asf format
2984 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2985 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2986 * support for ogg encapsulation
2987 * support for raw DV format
2988 * support for *.wav format
2989 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2992 Stream discovery & playlists:
2993 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2994 * support for .m3u file format
2995 * support for .asx file format
2996 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2999 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3000 (only available with the .avi demux)
3001 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3002 * support for raw PCM data
3003 * support for Cinepak video codec
3004 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3005 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3006 * support for Xvid codec
3007 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3008 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3009 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3011 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3013 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3016 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3019 * new WxWindows interface
3020 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3021 device and the channels configuration
3022 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3023 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3024 format that VLC can play
3025 * new swedish translation
3026 * enhancements of the playlist window
3027 * new messages window to see debug info
3028 * fixed a few crashes
3031 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3032 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3033 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3034 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working