1 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
8 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
11 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
14 * WPL playlist support
15 * ZPL playlist support
18 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
21 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
24 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
25 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
28 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
30 Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
31 ---------------------------------
35 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
36 See 'Access:' for more info.
37 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
40 * Instantaneous pausing
41 * Frame-by-Frame playback
43 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
44 * Timeshift for most medias
45 * RTSP trickplay support
46 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
49 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
50 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
51 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
52 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
53 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
54 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
55 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
56 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
57 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
58 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
61 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
62 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
63 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
64 * Metadata for mod files are supported
65 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
66 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
67 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
70 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
71 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
74 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
75 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
76 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
77 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
78 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
79 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
80 * DVB scanning on linux
81 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
82 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
83 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
84 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
85 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
86 * MTP device access on Unix
87 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
88 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
91 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
92 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
96 * Export the playlist in HTML
97 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
98 * Better metadata handling and reading
100 Linux/Windows interface:
101 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
102 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
103 * Recently played items list
104 * Interface toolbar customizations
105 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
108 - Improvements on many dialogs
109 - New dialog for plugins listing
110 - Fixed-size mode for videos
111 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
112 * Better integration in GTK environments
115 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
116 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
117 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
118 * Additional usability improvements
121 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
122 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
123 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
124 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
125 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
128 * New Maemo port with:
129 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
130 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
133 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
136 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
137 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
138 * Support for latest iSight models
141 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
142 * Surround support for PulseAudio
145 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
146 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
147 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
148 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
149 The old image video output has been removed.
150 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
151 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
154 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
157 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
158 ---------------------------------
161 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
162 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
165 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
166 ---------------------------------
169 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
172 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
175 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
176 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
177 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
178 main controller window.
179 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
182 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
187 * Updates of other localizations
190 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
191 * Lots of small bugfixes.
192 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
193 * Telnet fixes on Windows
194 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
196 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
197 ---------------------------------
200 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
202 Bunch of small bugfixes.
205 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
206 --------------------------------
211 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
212 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
215 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
216 --------------------------------
218 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
219 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
222 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
225 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
226 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
229 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
230 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
233 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
234 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
235 * Various fixed in playlist
238 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
241 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
244 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
245 ------------------------------------
247 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
248 * Fixes several memory leaks.
251 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
252 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
253 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
256 * Stability fix for the video output.
259 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
260 --------------------------------
263 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
264 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
265 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
266 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
267 * Fixed update system bugs
268 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
271 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
272 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
273 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
274 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
275 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
276 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
277 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
278 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
279 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
280 modern Mac OS X versions
283 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
284 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
286 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
287 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
290 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
291 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
292 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
293 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
294 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
295 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
298 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
299 --------------------------------
301 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
302 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
306 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
307 --------------------------------
309 * Multiple bug fixes.
312 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
313 ---------------------------------
317 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
318 recent to work correctly
319 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
320 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
321 edit the ".hosts" file.
322 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
323 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
324 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
325 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
326 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
327 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
328 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
329 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
330 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
331 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
332 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
333 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
334 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
335 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
336 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
337 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
338 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
339 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
340 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
341 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
342 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
343 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
344 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
345 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
346 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
347 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
348 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
349 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
350 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
351 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
352 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
353 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
354 and postproc modules.
355 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
356 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
357 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
358 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
360 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
362 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
363 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
365 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
366 * Glide video output module has been removed.
372 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
374 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
375 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
378 * Vastly improved playlist support:
379 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
381 * Shoutcast TV listings
382 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
384 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
385 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
387 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
390 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
391 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
392 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
393 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
394 * JACK audio input support
395 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
396 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
397 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
398 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
399 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
400 * Experimental EyeTV access module
401 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
402 (available as a separate download).
403 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
405 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
406 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
407 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
409 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
410 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
413 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
414 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
415 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
416 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
418 * APEv1/2 tags support
419 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
420 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
422 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
423 * TiVo Series 2 support
424 * CD+G karaoke Files support
429 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
430 * Flash Screen Video support
431 * CamStudio Screen Video support
432 * DosBox Capture support
433 * Karl Morton's Video support
434 * limited atrac3 support
436 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
437 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
438 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
440 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
441 * NellyMoser ASAO support
442 * APE (Monkey audio) support
443 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
444 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
447 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
448 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
449 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
450 * AQTitle subtitles support
451 * MKV USF subtitles support
452 * HTML-based subtitles support
453 * MPSub subtitles support
454 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
455 * MPL2 subtitles support
456 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
457 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
458 * Realtext subtitle support
459 * DKS subtitle support
460 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
461 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
464 * Flash Screen Video support
465 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
467 Video outputs and filters:
468 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
469 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
470 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
471 * New puzzle video output filter
472 * Re-written motion detection video filter
473 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
475 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
476 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
477 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
478 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
479 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
480 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
481 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
482 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
483 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
484 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
485 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
486 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
487 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
488 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
490 Audio outputs and filters:
491 * Replay gain support
492 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
493 new scaletempo audio filter)
494 * New spatializer audio filter
495 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
498 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
499 * New RTP payload formats:
500 * Speex voice audio codec
501 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
502 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
503 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
504 * DCCP transport for RTP
505 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
510 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
511 end-user suitable way.
512 * Improved user interaction
513 * Improved mouse gestures
514 * Vastly improved Update checker
515 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
517 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
518 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
520 * Improved video output features
521 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
522 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
523 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
524 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
525 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
527 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
528 if libncursesw is available.
529 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
530 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
531 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
533 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
534 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
535 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
536 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
537 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
538 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
539 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
540 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
543 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
544 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
545 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
548 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
549 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
550 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
551 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
552 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
553 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
556 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
557 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
567 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
568 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
569 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
572 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
573 ----------------------------------
576 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
579 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
580 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
581 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
582 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
583 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
584 * Updated Polish translation
587 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
588 ----------------------------------
591 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
592 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
593 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
596 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
597 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
598 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
599 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
600 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
601 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
602 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
603 to an unexpected application termination
604 * New Serbian translation
605 * Updated Romanian translation
608 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
609 ----------------------------------
612 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
613 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
614 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
615 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
616 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
617 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
618 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
619 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
622 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
623 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
624 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
625 * Fixed AAC resampling
626 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
627 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
630 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
631 ----------------------------------
634 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
635 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
636 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
637 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
638 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
641 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
642 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
643 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
644 * Close MMS access on network timeout
645 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
648 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
649 ----------------------------------
652 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
653 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
656 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
657 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
658 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
659 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
661 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
665 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
668 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
671 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
674 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
677 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
678 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
679 encoding on multi-cpu systems
680 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
681 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
683 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
684 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
685 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
686 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
689 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
692 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
693 ----------------------------------
696 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
697 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
698 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
700 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
701 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
703 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
704 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
707 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
709 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
710 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
711 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
712 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
713 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
714 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
716 * Support for current Ogg file formats
717 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
718 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
721 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
724 * The automatic updating facility was removed
725 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
726 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
727 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
730 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
731 ----------------------------------
733 Various bugfixes, notably:
734 * Windows Vista compatibility
735 * Cropping in Direct3D
736 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
737 * RSS filter string overflow
739 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
741 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
742 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
745 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
746 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
749 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
752 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
755 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
758 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
759 ----------------------------------
761 Various bugfixes, notably:
762 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
763 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
764 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
765 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
766 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
767 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
770 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
771 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
774 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
776 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
777 * Diverse usability improvements
778 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
779 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
780 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
783 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
784 ---------------------------------
787 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
790 * Fullscreen controller improvements
793 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
794 --------------------------------
797 * Shoutcast TV listings support
800 * Support for RTSP authentication
801 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
802 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
803 * ATSC support for DVB input
804 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
805 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
806 * Improved support for Flash Video files
809 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
810 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
811 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
812 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
813 * Matroska WavPack support
814 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
815 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
816 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
819 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
820 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
821 * Improved libcaca support
825 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
826 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
828 * Systray support in skins
830 * Support for Apple Remote control
831 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
832 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
833 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
834 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
836 * Notifications using notification-daemon
839 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
841 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
842 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
843 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
844 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
845 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
847 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
848 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
857 * Updates to the libvlc API
858 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
861 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
862 --------------------------------
865 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
866 * Support for downloading updates
870 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
871 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
872 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
873 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
875 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
876 * Improved subtitles encoding support
877 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
880 * Cook (Real audio) support
882 Playlist / Services discovery:
883 * XSPF playlist support
885 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
888 * New JACK audio output
892 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
893 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
894 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
895 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
896 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
897 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
900 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
903 * System to inform the user and request information
904 - HTTP authentication
908 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
909 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
910 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
913 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
914 - Improved playlist handling
915 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
917 - Embedded Video output
918 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
919 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
920 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
921 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
922 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
924 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
925 - A bunch of new RPN functions
928 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
931 * Mac-Intel compatibility
932 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
933 * Growl "Now playing" support
936 * Ability to log to syslog
937 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
940 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
942 * A bit more automatic testing
945 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
946 ---------------------------------
949 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
950 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
953 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
954 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
957 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
960 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
961 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
967 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
970 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
971 --------------------------------
974 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
978 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
979 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
980 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
983 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
984 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
985 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
986 * GnomeVFS input module
987 * Support for RTP packet reordering
988 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
991 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
992 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
993 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
996 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
997 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1003 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1004 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1007 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1008 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1009 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1012 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1014 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1015 - New extended controls panel
1016 - New bookmarks window
1017 - Fixed playlist sorting
1018 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1020 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1021 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1022 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1023 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1027 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1028 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1030 - Include macro to include other files
1034 * Should now work outside IE as well
1037 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1040 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1041 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1044 The following languages were added:
1048 * Simplified Chinese
1049 The following languages were re-added:
1053 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1054 --------------------------------
1057 * Rewrite of the playlist
1059 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1060 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1061 * Preferences improvements:
1062 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1063 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1065 * Core image manipulation support
1066 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1067 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1068 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1069 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1070 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1071 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1072 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1073 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1074 * Access filter architecture
1075 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1076 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1080 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1081 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1082 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1083 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1084 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1085 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1086 * Massive Matroska improvements
1087 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1089 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1090 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1091 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1092 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1093 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1095 Decoders / Encoders:
1096 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1097 * PNG decoder/encoder
1098 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1099 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1102 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1105 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1106 * Brand new SAP module
1107 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1108 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1109 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1110 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1111 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1112 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1116 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1119 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1120 * Image file video output (png)
1121 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1122 * Improvements to wall video filter
1123 * Support for font color and opacity
1129 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1130 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1131 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1135 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1136 - Improved preferences
1137 - Improvements to the wizard
1138 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1140 - Redesigned playlist
1141 - Improved preferences
1143 - Support for multiple actions
1146 - Support for the new playlist system
1148 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1151 * Screensaver disabling fix
1152 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1153 * Support for no-decoration windows
1156 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1157 * The OpenGL video output is back
1158 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1159 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1160 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1161 is not yet available in the new module
1162 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1165 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1174 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1177 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1180 The following languages were added:
1186 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1187 --------------------------------
1190 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1191 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1194 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1195 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1196 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1199 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1202 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1205 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1208 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1209 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1210 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1214 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1216 * Support of playlist group announcement
1219 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1220 --------------------------------
1223 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1224 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1225 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1226 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1227 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1228 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1231 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1232 (Stream your desktop)
1233 * Improved DVD support:
1234 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1235 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1236 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1237 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1238 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1239 (selection of titles/chapters).
1242 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1243 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1244 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1245 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1246 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1247 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1248 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1249 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1250 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1251 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1254 * G.726 audio support
1255 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1256 * MPEG-4 text support
1257 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1258 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1259 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1263 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1264 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1265 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1266 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1267 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1268 * DVB subtitles encoder
1269 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1270 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1272 * Text track muxing for mp4
1273 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1274 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1275 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1276 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1277 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1278 * Improved ASF muxer
1280 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1281 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1282 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1285 * New audio equalizer filter
1286 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1287 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1288 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1289 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1292 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1293 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1294 with support for effects.
1295 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1296 - New filters can be streamed.
1297 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1298 - Centralized scaling and blending
1300 - "time", to display current time
1301 - "marq", to display a marquee
1304 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1305 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1306 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1307 * A few skins2 improvements
1308 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1309 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1310 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1311 * Improved CORBA control module
1314 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1315 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1316 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1319 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1320 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1321 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1324 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1325 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1326 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1327 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1328 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1331 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1334 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1335 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1338 * Server/client network synchronization module
1339 * VBrick streams fully supported
1340 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1344 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1345 --------------------------------
1348 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1349 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1350 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1351 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1354 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1355 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1356 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1357 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1358 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1359 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1360 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1363 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1364 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1365 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1366 * Improved directory access module.
1367 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1368 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1369 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1370 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1371 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1374 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1375 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1376 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1379 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1380 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1381 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1384 * Improved session announcement system.
1385 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1386 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1387 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1388 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1389 * Improved transrater.
1390 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1391 * New configuration system.
1392 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1395 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1396 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1397 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1398 * Supports scheduling.
1399 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1400 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1403 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1404 - Ability to embed video output.
1405 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1406 - Lots of improvements.
1407 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1408 - New design and set of icons.
1409 - Ability to embed video output.
1410 - Support for hotkeys.
1411 - Support for bookmarks.
1413 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1414 - Better hotkeys handling.
1417 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1418 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1419 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1420 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1423 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1424 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1425 * Improved Windows installer.
1431 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1432 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1435 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1436 ---------------------------------
1439 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1440 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1443 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1444 --------------------------------
1447 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1448 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1451 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1452 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1453 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1454 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1457 * Internal improvments
1458 * Improved import/export
1461 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1463 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1464 small and strange formats.
1466 * New MOD audio demux.
1467 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1468 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1469 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1470 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1473 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1474 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1475 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1481 * New opengl video output plugin.
1484 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1485 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1488 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1489 --------------------------------
1492 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1493 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1494 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1495 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1496 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1497 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1498 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1499 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1502 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1507 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1508 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1509 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1510 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1511 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1512 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1513 * Better Icecast support.
1514 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1515 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1518 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1519 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1520 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1521 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1522 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1523 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1524 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1527 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1528 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1529 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1530 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1531 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1532 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1533 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1534 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1535 * Preliminary RTP support.
1536 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1541 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1542 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1544 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1545 - Improvements and help in preferences
1546 - New streaming wizard
1547 - Revised Disc Open menu
1549 - Improvements of the standard pages
1550 - Support for new commands
1551 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1554 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1555 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1558 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1559 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1560 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1561 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1562 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1563 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1564 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1565 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1566 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1569 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1571 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1572 * Support for Panther.
1573 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1574 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1577 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1578 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1579 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1580 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1581 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1582 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1583 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1584 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1587 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1588 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1589 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1592 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1595 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1596 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1597 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1598 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1601 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1602 --------------------------------
1605 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1608 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1609 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1612 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1613 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1616 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1619 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1620 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1623 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1626 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1629 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1630 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1634 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1635 --------------------------------
1638 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1639 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1643 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1644 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1645 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1647 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1648 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1651 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1654 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1657 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1658 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1662 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1663 --------------------------------
1666 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1667 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1671 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1672 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1673 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1674 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1675 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1678 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1679 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1680 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1683 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1684 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1685 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1688 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1689 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1690 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1691 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1692 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1695 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1696 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1697 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1700 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1703 * Improved build system.
1704 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1705 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1706 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1707 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1710 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1711 --------------------------------
1714 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1717 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1718 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1719 * Video 4 Linux support
1720 * CD Digital Audio support
1721 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1724 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1725 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1726 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1727 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1730 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1731 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1732 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1733 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1734 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1735 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1736 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1739 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1740 * New HTTP remote control interface
1743 * 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.
1744 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1745 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1746 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1749 * New reset option for the preferences
1750 * You can set your language in the prefences
1751 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1752 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1753 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1754 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1757 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1758 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1759 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1762 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1763 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1764 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1765 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1766 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1767 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1768 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1769 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1770 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1771 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1774 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1775 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1776 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1777 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1778 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1779 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1780 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1783 * Interface localization
1784 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1785 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1786 * New full-featured Preferences window
1789 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1790 --------------------------------
1793 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1794 * support for skins at the interface level
1795 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1796 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1797 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1798 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1799 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1802 * fixed HTTP redirects
1803 * support for opening an entire directory
1804 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1805 * new video4linux access plug-in
1806 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1809 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1810 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1811 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1814 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1815 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1816 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1817 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1818 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1819 * new codec for raw I420 video
1820 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1823 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1824 (although it still misses some important features)
1825 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1828 * new HTTP output support
1829 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1830 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1833 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1836 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1839 * reorderable playlist
1840 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1841 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1842 * support for mono audio output devices
1843 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1844 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1845 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1846 * the messages window remembers more lines
1847 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1848 * http and ogg stream output options
1849 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1852 * new skinnable interface
1853 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1855 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1856 * support for FLAC audio format
1857 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1859 * network tab in the interface
1860 * "apply" handling in preferences
1863 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1864 ---------------------------------
1867 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1868 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1869 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1870 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1872 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1873 * DTS S/PDIF support
1876 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1877 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1878 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1879 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1882 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1883 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1886 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1889 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1892 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1894 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1895 * rc interface is now fully useable
1896 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1899 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1900 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1901 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1902 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1903 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1905 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1906 * support for mouse gestures
1907 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1910 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1911 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1914 * improved ID3 tag detection
1915 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1916 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1917 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1919 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1922 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1923 ---------------------------------
1926 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1927 English was set as the preferred language
1930 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1931 --------------------------------
1934 * new mouse gesture interface
1935 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1939 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1940 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1941 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1944 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1945 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1949 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1952 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1953 without the user consent
1956 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1958 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1959 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1960 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1963 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1964 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1965 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1966 * playlist enhancements
1967 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1968 * new step forward/step backward commands
1969 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1970 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1971 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1974 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1975 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1976 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1979 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1980 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1983 * native video output is working again
1984 * only commandline interface support
1985 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1988 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1989 --------------------------------
1992 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1993 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1994 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1995 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1996 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1997 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1998 and A/52 streams are supported)
1999 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2004 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2005 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2006 * VCD entry points support
2007 * VCD image file support
2010 * support for *.asf format
2011 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2012 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2013 * support for ogg encapsulation
2014 * support for raw DV format
2015 * support for *.wav format
2016 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2019 Stream discovery & playlists:
2020 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2021 * support for .m3u file format
2022 * support for .asx file format
2023 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2026 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2027 (only available with the .avi demux)
2028 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2029 * support for raw PCM data
2030 * support for Cinepak video codec
2031 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2032 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2033 * support for Xvid codec
2034 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2035 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2036 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2038 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2040 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2043 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2046 * new WxWindows interface
2047 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2048 device and the channels configuration
2049 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2050 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2051 format that VLC can play
2052 * new swedish translation
2053 * enhancements of the playlist window
2054 * new messages window to see debug info
2055 * fixed a few crashes
2058 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2059 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2060 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2061 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working