1 Changes between 0.9.8a and 1.0.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
6 * Frame-By-Frame Support
8 * RTSP trickplay support
11 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
12 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
15 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
16 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on
20 * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
21 * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) support
23 * Blu-Ray Linear PCM support
24 * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) support
27 * Dirac encoding support using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
30 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
31 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
32 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
34 Linux/Windows interface:
35 * Recently played items list
38 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
41 * New Maemo port with:
42 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
43 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
46 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
49 * support to Export the playlist in HTML
50 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
53 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
54 * Surround support for PulseAudio
57 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
58 ---------------------------------
61 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
63 Bunch of small bugfixes.
66 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
67 --------------------------------
72 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
73 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
76 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
77 --------------------------------
79 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
80 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
83 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
86 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
87 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
90 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
91 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
94 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
95 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
96 * Various fixed in playlist
99 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
102 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
105 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
106 ------------------------------------
108 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
109 * Fixes several memory leaks.
112 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
113 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
114 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
117 * Stability fix for the video output.
120 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
121 --------------------------------
124 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
125 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
126 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
127 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
128 * Fixed update system bugs
129 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
132 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
133 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
134 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
135 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
136 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
137 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
138 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
139 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
140 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
141 modern Mac OS X versions
144 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
145 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
147 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
148 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
151 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
152 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
153 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
154 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
155 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
156 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
159 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
160 --------------------------------
162 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
163 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
167 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
168 --------------------------------
170 * Multiple bug fixes.
173 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
174 ---------------------------------
178 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
179 recent to work correctly
180 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
181 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
182 edit the ".hosts" file.
183 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
184 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
185 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
186 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
187 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
188 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
189 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
190 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
191 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
192 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
193 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
194 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
195 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
196 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
197 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
198 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
199 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
200 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
201 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
202 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
203 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
204 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
205 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
206 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
207 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
208 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
209 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
210 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
211 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
212 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
213 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
214 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
215 and postproc modules.
216 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
217 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
218 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
219 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
221 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
223 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
224 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
226 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
227 * Glide video output module has been removed.
233 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
235 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
236 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
239 * Vastly improved playlist support:
240 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
242 * Shoutcast TV listings
243 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
245 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
246 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
248 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
251 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
252 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
253 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
254 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
255 * JACK audio input support
256 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
257 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
258 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
259 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
260 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
261 * Experimental EyeTV access module
262 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
263 (available as a separate download).
264 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
266 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
267 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
268 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
270 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
271 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
274 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
275 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
276 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
277 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
279 * APEv1/2 tags support
280 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
281 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
283 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
284 * TiVo Series 2 support
285 * CD+G karaoke Files support
290 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
291 * Flash Screen Video support
292 * CamStudio Screen Video support
293 * DosBox Capture support
294 * Karl Morton's Video support
295 * limited atrac3 support
297 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
298 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
299 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
301 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
302 * NellyMoser ASAO support
303 * APE (Monkey audio) support
304 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
305 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
308 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
309 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
310 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
311 * AQTitle subtitles support
312 * MKV USF subtitles support
313 * HTML-based subtitles support
314 * MPSub subtitles support
315 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
316 * MPL2 subtitles support
317 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
318 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
319 * Realtext subtitle support
320 * DKS subtitle support
321 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
322 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
325 * Flash Screen Video support
326 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
328 Video outputs and filters:
329 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
330 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
331 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
332 * New puzzle video output filter
333 * Re-written motion detection video filter
334 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
336 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
337 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
338 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
339 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
340 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
341 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
342 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
343 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
344 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
345 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
346 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
347 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
348 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
349 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
351 Audio outputs and filters:
352 * Replay gain support
353 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
354 new scaletempo audio filter)
355 * New spatializer audio filter
356 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
359 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
360 * New RTP payload formats:
361 * Speex voice audio codec
362 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
363 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
364 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
365 * DCCP transport for RTP
366 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
371 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
372 end-user suitable way.
373 * Improved user interaction
374 * Improved mouse gestures
375 * Vastly improved Update checker
376 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
378 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
379 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
381 * Improved video output features
382 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
383 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
384 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
385 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
386 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
388 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
389 if libncursesw is available.
390 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
391 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
392 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
394 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
395 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
396 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
397 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
398 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
399 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
400 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
401 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
404 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
405 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
406 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
409 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
410 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
411 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
412 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
413 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
414 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
417 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
418 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
428 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
429 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
430 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
433 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
434 ----------------------------------
437 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
440 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
441 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
442 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
443 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
444 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
445 * Updated Polish translation
448 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
449 ----------------------------------
452 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
453 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
454 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
457 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
458 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
459 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
460 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
461 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
462 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
463 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
464 to an unexpected application termination
465 * New Serbian translation
466 * Updated Romanian translation
469 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
470 ----------------------------------
473 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
474 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
475 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
476 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
477 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
478 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
479 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
480 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
483 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
484 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
485 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
486 * Fixed AAC resampling
487 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
488 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
491 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
492 ----------------------------------
495 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
496 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
497 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
498 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
499 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
502 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
503 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
504 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
505 * Close MMS access on network timeout
506 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
509 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
510 ----------------------------------
513 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
514 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
517 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
518 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
519 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
520 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
522 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
526 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
529 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
532 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
535 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
538 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
539 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
540 encoding on multi-cpu systems
541 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
542 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
544 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
545 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
546 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
547 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
550 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
553 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
554 ----------------------------------
557 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
558 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
559 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
561 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
562 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
564 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
565 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
568 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
570 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
571 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
572 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
573 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
574 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
575 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
577 * Support for current Ogg file formats
578 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
579 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
582 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
585 * The automatic updating facility was removed
586 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
587 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
588 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
591 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
592 ----------------------------------
594 Various bugfixes, notably:
595 * Windows Vista compatibility
596 * Cropping in Direct3D
597 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
598 * RSS filter string overflow
600 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
602 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
603 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
606 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
607 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
610 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
613 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
616 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
619 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
620 ----------------------------------
622 Various bugfixes, notably:
623 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
624 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
625 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
626 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
627 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
628 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
631 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
632 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
635 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
637 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
638 * Diverse usability improvements
639 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
640 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
641 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
644 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
645 ---------------------------------
648 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
651 * Fullscreen controller improvements
654 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
655 --------------------------------
658 * Shoutcast TV listings support
661 * Support for RTSP authentication
662 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
663 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
664 * ATSC support for DVB input
665 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
666 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
667 * Improved support for Flash Video files
670 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
671 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
672 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
673 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
674 * Matroska WavPack support
675 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
676 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
677 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
680 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
681 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
682 * Improved libcaca support
686 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
687 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
689 * Systray support in skins
691 * Support for Apple Remote control
692 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
693 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
694 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
695 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
697 * Notifications using notification-daemon
700 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
702 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
703 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
704 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
705 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
706 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
708 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
709 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
718 * Updates to the libvlc API
719 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
722 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
723 --------------------------------
726 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
727 * Support for downloading updates
731 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
732 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
733 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
734 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
736 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
737 * Improved subtitles encoding support
738 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
741 * Cook (Real audio) support
743 Playlist / Services discovery:
744 * XSPF playlist support
746 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
749 * New JACK audio output
753 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
754 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
755 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
756 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
757 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
758 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
761 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
764 * System to inform the user and request information
765 - HTTP authentication
769 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
770 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
771 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
774 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
775 - Improved playlist handling
776 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
778 - Embedded Video output
779 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
780 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
781 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
782 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
783 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
785 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
786 - A bunch of new RPN functions
789 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
792 * Mac-Intel compatibility
793 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
794 * Growl "Now playing" support
797 * Ability to log to syslog
798 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
801 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
803 * A bit more automatic testing
806 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
807 ---------------------------------
810 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
811 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
814 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
815 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
818 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
821 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
822 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
828 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
831 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
832 --------------------------------
835 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
839 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
840 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
841 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
844 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
845 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
846 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
847 * GnomeVFS input module
848 * Support for RTP packet reordering
849 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
852 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
853 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
854 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
857 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
858 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
864 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
865 Mixer and Dolby Surround
868 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
869 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
870 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
873 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
875 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
876 - New extended controls panel
877 - New bookmarks window
878 - Fixed playlist sorting
879 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
881 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
882 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
883 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
884 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
888 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
889 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
891 - Include macro to include other files
895 * Should now work outside IE as well
898 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
901 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
902 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
905 The following languages were added:
910 The following languages were re-added:
914 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
915 --------------------------------
918 * Rewrite of the playlist
920 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
921 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
922 * Preferences improvements:
923 - New organization, designed to improve usability
924 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
926 * Core image manipulation support
927 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
928 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
929 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
930 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
931 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
932 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
933 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
934 now separated by ':' instead of ','
935 * Access filter architecture
936 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
937 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
941 * Support for SOCKS proxy
942 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
943 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
944 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
945 * Better support for Kasenna streams
946 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
947 * Massive Matroska improvements
948 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
950 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
951 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
952 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
953 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
954 * Support for FTP over IPv6
957 * Dirac decoder and encoder
958 * PNG decoder/encoder
959 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
960 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
963 * New Record and Timeshift filters
966 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
967 * Brand new SAP module
968 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
969 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
970 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
971 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
972 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
973 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
977 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
980 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
981 * Image file video output (png)
982 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
983 * Improvements to wall video filter
984 * Support for font color and opacity
990 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
991 - Seeking support in VoD streams
992 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
996 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
997 - Improved preferences
998 - Improvements to the wizard
999 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1001 - Redesigned playlist
1002 - Improved preferences
1004 - Support for multiple actions
1007 - Support for the new playlist system
1009 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1012 * Screensaver disabling fix
1013 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1014 * Support for no-decoration windows
1017 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1018 * The OpenGL video output is back
1019 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1020 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1021 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1022 is not yet available in the new module
1023 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1026 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1035 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1038 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1041 The following languages were added:
1047 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1048 --------------------------------
1051 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1052 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1055 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1056 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1057 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1060 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1063 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1066 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1069 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1070 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1071 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1075 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1077 * Support of playlist group announcement
1080 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1081 --------------------------------
1084 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1085 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1086 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1087 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1088 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1089 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1092 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1093 (Stream your desktop)
1094 * Improved DVD support:
1095 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1096 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1097 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1098 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1099 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1100 (selection of titles/chapters).
1103 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1104 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1105 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1106 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1107 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1108 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1109 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1110 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1111 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1112 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1115 * G.726 audio support
1116 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1117 * MPEG-4 text support
1118 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1119 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1120 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1124 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1125 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1126 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1127 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1128 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1129 * DVB subtitles encoder
1130 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1131 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1133 * Text track muxing for mp4
1134 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1135 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1136 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1137 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1138 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1139 * Improved ASF muxer
1141 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1142 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1143 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1146 * New audio equalizer filter
1147 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1148 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1149 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1150 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1153 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1154 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1155 with support for effects.
1156 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1157 - New filters can be streamed.
1158 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1159 - Centralized scaling and blending
1161 - "time", to display current time
1162 - "marq", to display a marquee
1165 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1166 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1167 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1168 * A few skins2 improvements
1169 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1170 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1171 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1172 * Improved CORBA control module
1175 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1176 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1177 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1180 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1181 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1182 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1185 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1186 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1187 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1188 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1189 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1192 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1195 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1196 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1199 * Server/client network synchronization module
1200 * VBrick streams fully supported
1201 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1205 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1206 --------------------------------
1209 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1210 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1211 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1212 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1215 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1216 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1217 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1218 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1219 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1220 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1221 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1224 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1225 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1226 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1227 * Improved directory access module.
1228 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1229 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1230 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1231 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1232 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1235 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1236 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1237 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1240 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1241 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1242 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1245 * Improved session announcement system.
1246 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1247 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1248 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1249 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1250 * Improved transrater.
1251 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1252 * New configuration system.
1253 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1256 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1257 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1258 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1259 * Supports scheduling.
1260 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1261 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1264 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1265 - Ability to embed video output.
1266 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1267 - Lots of improvements.
1268 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1269 - New design and set of icons.
1270 - Ability to embed video output.
1271 - Support for hotkeys.
1272 - Support for bookmarks.
1274 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1275 - Better hotkeys handling.
1278 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1279 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1280 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1281 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1284 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1285 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1286 * Improved Windows installer.
1292 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1293 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1296 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1297 ---------------------------------
1300 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1301 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1304 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1305 --------------------------------
1308 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1309 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1312 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1313 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1314 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1315 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1318 * Internal improvments
1319 * Improved import/export
1322 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1324 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1325 small and strange formats.
1327 * New MOD audio demux.
1328 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1329 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1330 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1331 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1334 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1335 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1336 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1342 * New opengl video output plugin.
1345 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1346 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1349 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1350 --------------------------------
1353 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1354 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1355 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1356 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1357 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1358 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1359 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1360 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1363 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1368 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1369 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1370 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1371 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1372 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1373 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1374 * Better Icecast support.
1375 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1376 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1379 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1380 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1381 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1382 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1383 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1384 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1385 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1388 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1389 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1390 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1391 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1392 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1393 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1394 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1395 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1396 * Preliminary RTP support.
1397 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1402 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1403 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1405 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1406 - Improvements and help in preferences
1407 - New streaming wizard
1408 - Revised Disc Open menu
1410 - Improvements of the standard pages
1411 - Support for new commands
1412 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1415 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1416 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1419 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1420 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1421 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1422 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1423 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1424 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1425 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1426 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1427 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1430 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1432 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1433 * Support for Panther.
1434 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1435 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1438 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1439 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1440 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1441 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1442 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1443 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1444 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1445 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1448 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1449 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1450 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1453 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1456 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1457 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1458 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1459 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1462 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1463 --------------------------------
1466 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1469 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1470 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1473 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1474 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1477 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1480 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1481 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1484 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1487 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1490 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1491 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1495 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1496 --------------------------------
1499 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1500 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1504 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1505 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1506 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1508 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1509 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1512 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1515 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1518 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1519 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1523 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1524 --------------------------------
1527 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1528 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1532 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1533 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1534 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1535 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1536 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1539 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1540 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1541 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1544 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1545 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1546 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1549 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1550 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1551 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1552 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1553 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1556 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1557 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1558 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1561 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1564 * Improved build system.
1565 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1566 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1567 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1568 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1571 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1572 --------------------------------
1575 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1578 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1579 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1580 * Video 4 Linux support
1581 * CD Digital Audio support
1582 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1585 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1586 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1587 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1588 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1591 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1592 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1593 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1594 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1595 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1596 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1597 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1600 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1601 * New HTTP remote control interface
1604 * 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.
1605 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1606 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1607 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1610 * New reset option for the preferences
1611 * You can set your language in the prefences
1612 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1613 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1614 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1615 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1618 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1619 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1620 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1623 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1624 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1625 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1626 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1627 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1628 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1629 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1630 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1631 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1632 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1635 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1636 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1637 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1638 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1639 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1640 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1641 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1644 * Interface localization
1645 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1646 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1647 * New full-featured Preferences window
1650 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1651 --------------------------------
1654 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1655 * support for skins at the interface level
1656 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1657 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1658 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1659 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1660 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1663 * fixed HTTP redirects
1664 * support for opening an entire directory
1665 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1666 * new video4linux access plug-in
1667 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1670 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1671 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1672 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1675 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1676 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1677 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1678 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1679 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1680 * new codec for raw I420 video
1681 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1684 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1685 (although it still misses some important features)
1686 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1689 * new HTTP output support
1690 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1691 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1694 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1697 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1700 * reorderable playlist
1701 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1702 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1703 * support for mono audio output devices
1704 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1705 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1706 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1707 * the messages window remembers more lines
1708 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1709 * http and ogg stream output options
1710 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1713 * new skinnable interface
1714 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1716 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1717 * support for FLAC audio format
1718 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1720 * network tab in the interface
1721 * "apply" handling in preferences
1724 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1725 ---------------------------------
1728 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1729 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1730 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1731 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1733 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1734 * DTS S/PDIF support
1737 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1738 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1739 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1740 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1743 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1744 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1747 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1750 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1753 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1755 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1756 * rc interface is now fully useable
1757 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1760 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1761 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1762 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1763 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1764 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1766 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1767 * support for mouse gestures
1768 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1771 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1772 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1775 * improved ID3 tag detection
1776 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1777 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1778 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1780 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1783 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1784 ---------------------------------
1787 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1788 English was set as the preferred language
1791 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1792 --------------------------------
1795 * new mouse gesture interface
1796 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1800 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1801 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1802 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1805 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1806 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1810 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1813 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1814 without the user consent
1817 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1819 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1820 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1821 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1824 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1825 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1826 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1827 * playlist enhancements
1828 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1829 * new step forward/step backward commands
1830 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1831 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1832 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1835 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1836 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1837 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1840 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1841 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1844 * native video output is working again
1845 * only commandline interface support
1846 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1849 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1850 --------------------------------
1853 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1854 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1855 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1856 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1857 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1858 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1859 and A/52 streams are supported)
1860 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1865 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1866 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1867 * VCD entry points support
1868 * VCD image file support
1871 * support for *.asf format
1872 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1873 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1874 * support for ogg encapsulation
1875 * support for raw DV format
1876 * support for *.wav format
1877 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1880 Stream discovery & playlists:
1881 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1882 * support for .m3u file format
1883 * support for .asx file format
1884 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1887 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1888 (only available with the .avi demux)
1889 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1890 * support for raw PCM data
1891 * support for Cinepak video codec
1892 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1893 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1894 * support for Xvid codec
1895 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1896 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1897 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1899 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1901 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1904 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1907 * new WxWindows interface
1908 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1909 device and the channels configuration
1910 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1911 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1912 format that VLC can play
1913 * new swedish translation
1914 * enhancements of the playlist window
1915 * new messages window to see debug info
1916 * fixed a few crashes
1919 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1920 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1921 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1922 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working