1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
6 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
7 VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
8 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
9 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
11 3rd party libraries (contrib):
12 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
16 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
17 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
18 * Partial support for Windows Store App
20 * Added audio fingerprinter support
21 * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
24 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
25 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
26 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
27 * Support for Ulead DV audio
28 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
29 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
30 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
31 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
32 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
33 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
34 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
35 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
38 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
41 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
42 remove support for previous OS X releases
43 * Major improvements in DASH support
44 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
45 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
46 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
47 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
48 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
49 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
50 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
51 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
52 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
55 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
56 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
57 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
58 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
59 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
60 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
61 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
62 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
63 * Support for more MJPEG streams
64 * Add support for liveleak streams
67 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
68 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
69 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
70 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
71 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1 and 7.1 playback and layouts
72 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
73 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
74 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
75 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
76 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
77 * New, simplified AudioUnit output module for iOS
80 * New remapping channel filter
81 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
82 * New VSXu visualization plugin
83 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
86 * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
87 * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
88 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
89 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
90 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
91 Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
92 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
93 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
96 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
97 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
98 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
99 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
100 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
101 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
102 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
105 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
106 * Options support for AVIO output module
107 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
108 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
109 * Livehttp stream encryption support
110 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
111 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
114 * Added AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
117 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
118 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
119 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
120 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
121 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
122 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
126 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
129 * add support for multiple video outputs
130 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
132 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
133 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
134 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
135 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
136 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
137 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
138 VLC's internal volume level
139 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
140 selection and to manage the list of presets
141 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
142 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
143 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
144 * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
145 * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
146 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
147 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
148 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
149 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
151 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
152 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
153 * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
154 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
155 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
156 * add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
157 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
158 3rd party applications
159 * add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
160 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
161 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
165 * Partial support for Qt5.0
166 * Menus modifications and improvements
167 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
168 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
169 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
170 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
171 * EPG display fixes and improvements
172 * Add SD pixmap sources
173 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
174 * Display playlist total duration
175 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
177 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
178 * Removed language preference
181 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
182 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
183 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
184 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
185 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
186 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
187 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
188 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support.
191 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
192 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
193 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
194 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
195 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
196 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
198 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
199 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
200 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
201 * Broken crop video filter
203 * OSD parser and menu
204 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
205 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
206 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
207 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
210 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
211 --------------------------------
214 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
217 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
218 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
219 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
222 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
223 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
224 * Fix koreus lua parser
225 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
226 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
227 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
228 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
231 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
232 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
235 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
238 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
239 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
240 * Fix Time counter UI look
241 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
244 * Fix https streaming
247 * Fix audio and video track selection:
248 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
249 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
252 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
253 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
254 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
255 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
256 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
259 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
260 --------------------------------
263 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
264 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
265 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
266 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
267 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
268 during playback on Mac OS X
271 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
272 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
273 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
276 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
277 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
278 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
279 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
280 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
283 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
284 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
285 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
286 * Support Youtube live streams
289 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
292 * Fix media info dialog update
293 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
294 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
295 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
296 * Fix album art display at start
299 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
300 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
301 * Fix menus display and behavior
302 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
303 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
304 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
305 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
306 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
307 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
308 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
311 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
312 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
313 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
314 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
315 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
316 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
317 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
318 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
319 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
322 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
323 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
324 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
325 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
326 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
329 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
330 --------------------------------
333 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
336 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
337 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
340 * Add GateKeeper support
341 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
342 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
343 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
346 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
349 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
350 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
351 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
352 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
353 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
356 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
357 --------------------------------
360 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
361 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
362 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
363 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
364 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
365 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
366 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
367 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
368 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
369 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
370 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
374 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
375 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
376 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
377 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
378 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
379 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
380 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
381 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
382 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
383 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
384 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
385 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
388 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
389 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
391 * Fix MP3 free format support
394 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
395 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
396 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
397 * Fix for DVB channels file support
398 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
401 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
402 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
404 Audio filters and output:
405 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
406 * Fix DirectSound device selection
407 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
408 * Do not apply volume in file output
409 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
410 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
413 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
414 the persistant media library
415 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
416 to the media library or the temporary playlist
417 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
418 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
419 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
420 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
421 press on the Play/Pause button
422 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
423 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
424 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
425 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
426 * Many Fullscreen fixes
427 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
428 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
429 Synchronization panel
430 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
431 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
432 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
433 * Fix crashes on exit
434 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
436 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
437 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
438 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
439 automatically reset on the first launch.
440 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
441 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
442 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
445 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
446 * Fixes for icecast SD
449 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
450 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
451 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
452 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
453 * Fix tags and file names display
454 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
457 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
458 * Fix for key events and focus loss
461 * Fix display of some buttons
462 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
463 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
466 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
467 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
468 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
471 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
472 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
473 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
474 Thai translations update
475 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
478 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
479 --------------------------------
482 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
483 * fix the samba module compilation
484 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
485 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
486 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
487 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
490 * Support for MXPEG files
491 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
492 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
495 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
496 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
497 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
500 * Fix ogm header creation
503 * limit spatializer filter distortions
504 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
507 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
508 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
509 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
510 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
513 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
516 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
517 * allow to hide the sidebar
518 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
519 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
520 * noticebly faster launch time
521 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
522 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
523 * improve track synchronization panel
524 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
525 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
528 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
529 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
530 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
531 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
534 * fix for menus display
535 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
536 * documentation update
539 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
540 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
543 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
544 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
545 * Update Jamendo selections
549 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
550 * fix a crash on VLM close
553 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
554 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
555 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
556 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
559 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
562 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
563 ---------------------------------
566 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
567 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
568 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
569 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
570 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
571 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
572 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
573 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
574 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
575 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
576 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
577 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
578 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
579 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
580 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
581 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
582 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
583 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
584 --http-crl (optional CRL).
585 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
586 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
587 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
588 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
589 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
590 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
591 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
593 Important changes for packagers:
594 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
595 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
596 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
597 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
598 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
599 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
600 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
601 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
602 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
603 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
606 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
607 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
608 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
609 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
610 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
611 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
612 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
615 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
616 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
617 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
618 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
619 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
620 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
621 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
622 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
623 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
624 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
625 * PulseAudio audio input support
626 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
627 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
628 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
629 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
630 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
631 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
632 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
633 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
636 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
637 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
638 are notably concerned.
639 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
640 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
641 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
642 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
643 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
644 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
645 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
646 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
647 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
648 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
649 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
650 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
651 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
652 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
653 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
656 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
657 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
658 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
659 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
660 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
661 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
662 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
663 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
664 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
665 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
666 * Improved support of tracker files
667 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
670 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
671 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
672 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
673 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
674 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
675 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
676 and important cleanups and optimisations
677 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
678 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
679 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
680 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
681 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
682 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
683 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
684 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
685 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
686 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
687 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
688 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
689 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
690 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
691 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
692 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
693 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
694 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
695 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
696 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
697 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
700 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
701 * New video output for iOS platform
702 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
703 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
704 * Various vmem improvements
705 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
706 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
707 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
708 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
709 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
710 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
712 Audio Output and Filters:
713 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
714 * New audio output in memory (amem)
715 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
716 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
717 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
718 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
719 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
720 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
721 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
722 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
725 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
726 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
727 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
728 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
729 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
730 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
731 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
732 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
733 * New anti-flickering filter
734 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
735 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
736 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
737 blackbox and customizable shadow.
738 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
739 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
740 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
743 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
744 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
745 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
746 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
747 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
748 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
749 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
750 * Major rework of VoD support
751 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
752 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
753 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
754 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
755 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
756 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
757 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
758 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
759 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
760 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
763 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
764 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
767 * New capabilities for libVLC:
768 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
769 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
770 list of available audio and video filters
771 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
772 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
773 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
776 * asademux, subsass: use libass
777 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
778 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
780 * upnp: use upnp_intel
781 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
782 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
783 * removal of the noise filter
784 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
785 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
786 removed in Growl's next release, too.
787 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
790 * Update of translations for most languages.
791 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
794 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
795 ----------------------------------
798 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
799 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
802 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
803 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
806 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
807 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
808 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
811 * Camtasia decoding fix.
814 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
815 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
818 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
821 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
822 ----------------------------------
825 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
826 including support for OS X Lion
827 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
828 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
831 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
834 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
835 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
836 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
839 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
842 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
843 ----------------------------------
846 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
847 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
850 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
851 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
852 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
853 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
854 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
856 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
857 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
858 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
860 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
861 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
864 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
867 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
870 * Fix quitting on Linux
871 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
875 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
878 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
881 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
882 ---------------------------------
884 Windows and Mac OS X:
885 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
888 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
889 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
892 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
895 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
898 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
900 Miscellaneous fixes in:
901 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
903 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
904 * RTP output and XML export
905 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
909 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
910 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
911 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
912 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
915 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
916 --------------------------------
918 Windows and Mac OS X:
919 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
922 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
925 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
926 * Improve Apple Remote handling
927 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
928 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
929 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
930 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
933 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
934 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
938 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
939 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
940 * New Luganda Translation
943 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
944 --------------------------------
947 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
950 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
951 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
952 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
953 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
956 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
958 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
959 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
960 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
961 * mp4 demuxer improvements
962 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
963 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
964 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
965 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
967 Miscellaneous fixes in:
968 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
969 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
970 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
971 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
972 * Configure and build system improvements
973 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
976 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
977 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
978 * New icelandic translation
981 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
982 --------------------------------
985 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
989 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
990 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
991 and stability reasons
994 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
998 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1001 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1002 ----------------------------------
1005 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1008 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1009 ---------------------------------
1012 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1013 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1014 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1015 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1018 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1021 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1022 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1023 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1024 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1027 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1028 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1029 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1031 Subtitles and renderer:
1032 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1033 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1034 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1035 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1036 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1039 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1040 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1041 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1042 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1045 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1046 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1048 Miscellaneous fixes:
1049 * KDE device solid actions
1051 * Transcode integer overflow
1052 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1053 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1056 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1057 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1058 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1061 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1062 ----------------------------------
1065 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1069 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1072 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1075 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1076 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1077 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1078 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1081 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1085 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1088 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1091 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1092 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1094 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1098 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1099 * Miscellaneous fixes
1102 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1103 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1104 French and Ukrainian
1105 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1106 * New Asturian translation
1109 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1110 ----------------------------------
1113 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1115 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1118 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1121 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1122 * Various fixes for Windows
1125 * New Armenian translation
1126 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1127 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1130 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1131 --------------------------------
1134 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1135 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1136 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1139 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1140 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1143 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1144 --------------------------------
1146 Access and demuxers:
1147 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1148 * fix for podcasts parsing
1149 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1152 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1153 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1156 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1157 * fix m3u playlists exports
1160 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1163 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1166 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1169 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1172 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1175 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1176 --------------------------------
1179 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1180 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1183 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1184 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1187 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1188 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1189 * fix console output encoding
1191 Interface and extensions:
1192 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1193 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1196 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1197 --------------------------------
1200 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1201 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1202 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1203 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1204 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1205 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1206 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1207 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1208 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1209 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1210 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1211 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1212 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1213 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1214 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1215 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1219 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1220 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1221 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1222 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1223 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1226 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1229 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1230 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1231 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1235 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1238 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1239 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1240 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1243 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1244 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1245 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1246 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1249 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1250 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1253 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1254 --------------------------------
1256 Important changes for users:
1257 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1258 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1260 Important changes for packagers:
1261 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1262 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1263 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1264 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1265 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1267 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1269 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1270 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1271 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1272 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1273 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1276 * Support for the sftp protocol
1277 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1278 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1279 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1280 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1281 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1284 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1285 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1286 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1288 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1289 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1290 * Invmem module improvements
1291 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1292 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1293 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1294 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1295 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1296 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1297 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1298 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1299 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1300 * Support for VP8 codec
1301 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1304 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1305 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1306 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1307 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1308 * Various EGP improvements
1309 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1310 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1313 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1314 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1315 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1316 * Podcast images are now displayed
1319 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1320 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1321 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1322 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1323 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1324 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1325 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1326 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1327 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1328 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1329 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1332 * New content extensions lua framework
1335 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1336 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1337 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1338 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1339 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1340 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1341 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1344 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1345 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1346 * Service discovery based on libudev
1347 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1350 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1351 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1352 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1353 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1354 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1355 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1356 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1359 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1360 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1361 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1364 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1366 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1367 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1370 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1373 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1374 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1375 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1376 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1377 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1378 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1379 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1382 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1383 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1386 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1387 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1388 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1392 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1393 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1394 * Improved Solaris port
1397 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1398 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1401 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1402 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1403 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1404 * transrate: broken since too long
1405 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1406 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1407 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1408 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1409 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1410 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1411 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1412 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1413 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1414 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1415 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1416 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1417 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1418 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1421 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1422 --------------------------------
1425 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1427 Decoders/Packetizers:
1428 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1431 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1432 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1433 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1434 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1435 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1438 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1439 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1442 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1443 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1446 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1447 and Walloon translations updated
1448 * Sinhala translation started
1451 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1452 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1455 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1456 --------------------------------
1459 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1460 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1463 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1466 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1467 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1470 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1471 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1472 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1473 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1476 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1477 --------------------------------
1480 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1481 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1484 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1485 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1488 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1489 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1492 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1495 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1496 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1499 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1500 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1503 * New Walloon translation
1504 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1507 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1508 --------------------------------
1511 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1512 regressions in most popular drivers
1513 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1516 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1517 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1518 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1521 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1522 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1525 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1526 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1527 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1528 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1529 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1532 * New udev module for linux
1535 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1538 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1541 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1542 --------------------------------
1545 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1546 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1547 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1550 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1551 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1554 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1555 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1558 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1561 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1562 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1563 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1564 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1567 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1568 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1569 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1570 - no support for Goom and SDL
1571 - limited text rendering support
1572 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1575 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1576 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1577 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1578 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1579 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1580 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1581 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1582 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1583 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1587 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1590 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1593 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1594 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1595 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1596 Arabic and French translation updates
1599 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1600 --------------------------------
1603 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1604 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1605 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1606 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1607 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1608 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1611 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1612 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1613 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1616 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1617 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1618 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1621 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1624 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1625 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1628 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1629 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1630 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1631 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1632 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1633 * Fix various crashes
1636 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1638 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1642 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1643 ---------------------------------
1647 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1648 See 'Access:' for more info.
1649 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1652 * Instantaneous pausing
1653 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1654 * Finer speed control
1655 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1656 * Timeshift for most medias
1657 * RTSP trickplay support
1658 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1661 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1662 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1663 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1664 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1665 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1666 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1667 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1668 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1669 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1670 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1673 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1674 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1675 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1676 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1677 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1678 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1679 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1682 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1683 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1686 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1687 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1688 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1689 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1690 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1691 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1692 * DVB scanning on linux
1693 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1694 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1695 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1696 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1697 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1698 * MTP device access on Unix
1699 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1700 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1703 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1704 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1705 Windows and Mac OS X.
1708 * Export the playlist in HTML
1709 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1710 * Better metadata handling and reading
1712 Linux/Windows interface:
1713 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1714 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1715 * Recently played items list
1716 * Interface toolbar customizations
1717 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1718 - More menus actions
1719 - Finer speed slider
1720 - Improvements on many dialogs
1721 - New dialog for plugins listing
1722 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1723 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1724 * Better integration in GTK environments
1727 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1728 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1729 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1730 * Additional usability improvements
1733 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1734 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1735 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1736 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1737 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1740 * New Maemo port with:
1741 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1742 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1745 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1748 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1749 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1750 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1751 * Support for latest iSight models
1754 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1755 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1758 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1759 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1760 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1761 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1762 The old image video output has been removed.
1763 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1764 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1767 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1775 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1776 --------------------------------------
1782 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1783 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1784 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1785 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1786 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1787 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1788 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1790 Various fixes to the following modules:
1793 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1794 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1795 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1797 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1802 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1803 ---------------------------------
1806 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1807 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1810 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1811 ---------------------------------
1814 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1817 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1820 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1821 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1822 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1823 main controller window.
1824 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1827 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1832 * Updates of other localizations
1835 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1836 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1837 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1838 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1839 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1842 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1843 ---------------------------------
1846 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1848 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1851 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1852 --------------------------------
1857 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1858 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1861 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1862 --------------------------------
1864 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1865 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1868 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1871 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1872 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1875 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1876 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1879 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1880 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1881 * Various fixed in playlist
1884 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1887 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1890 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1891 ------------------------------------
1893 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1894 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1897 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1898 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1899 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1902 * Stability fix for the video output.
1905 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1906 --------------------------------
1909 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1910 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1911 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1912 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1913 * Fixed update system bugs
1914 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1917 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1918 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1919 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1920 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1921 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1922 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1923 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1924 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1925 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1926 modern Mac OS X versions
1929 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1930 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1932 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1933 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1936 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1937 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1938 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1939 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1940 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1941 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1944 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1945 --------------------------------
1947 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1948 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1949 * Multiple bugfixes.
1952 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1953 --------------------------------
1955 * Multiple bug fixes.
1958 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1959 ---------------------------------
1963 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1964 recent to work correctly
1965 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1966 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1967 edit the ".hosts" file.
1968 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1969 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1970 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1971 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1972 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1973 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1974 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1975 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1976 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1977 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1978 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1979 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1980 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1981 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1982 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1983 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1984 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1985 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1986 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1987 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1988 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1989 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1990 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1991 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1992 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1993 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1994 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1995 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1996 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1997 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1998 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1999 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2000 and postproc modules.
2001 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2002 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2003 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2004 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2006 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2007 filter. For example:
2008 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2009 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2011 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2012 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2018 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2020 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2021 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2024 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2025 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2027 * Shoutcast TV listings
2028 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2030 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2031 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2033 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2036 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2037 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2038 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2039 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2040 * JACK audio input support
2041 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2042 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2043 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2044 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2045 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2046 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2047 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2048 (available as a separate download).
2049 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2050 * RTMP input support
2051 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2052 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2053 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2055 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2056 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2059 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2060 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2061 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2062 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2064 * APEv1/2 tags support
2065 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2066 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2068 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2069 * TiVo Series 2 support
2070 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2075 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2076 * Flash Screen Video support
2077 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2078 * DosBox Capture support
2079 * Karl Morton's Video support
2080 * limited atrac3 support
2082 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2083 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2084 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2085 * H.264 PAFF support
2086 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2087 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2088 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2089 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2090 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2093 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2094 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2095 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2096 * AQTitle subtitles support
2097 * MKV USF subtitles support
2098 * HTML-based subtitles support
2099 * MPSub subtitles support
2100 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2101 * MPL2 subtitles support
2102 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2103 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2104 * Realtext subtitle support
2105 * DKS subtitle support
2106 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2107 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2110 * Flash Screen Video support
2111 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2113 Video outputs and filters:
2114 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2115 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2116 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2117 * New puzzle video output filter
2118 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2119 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2121 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2122 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2123 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2124 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2125 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2126 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2127 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2128 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2129 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2130 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2131 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2132 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2133 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2134 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2136 Audio outputs and filters:
2137 * Replay gain support
2138 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2139 new scaletempo audio filter)
2140 * New spatializer audio filter
2141 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2144 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2145 * New RTP payload formats:
2146 * Speex voice audio codec
2147 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2148 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2149 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2150 * DCCP transport for RTP
2151 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2156 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2157 end-user suitable way.
2158 * Improved user interaction
2159 * Improved mouse gestures
2160 * Vastly improved Update checker
2161 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2163 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2164 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2166 * Improved video output features
2167 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2168 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2169 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2170 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2171 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2173 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2174 if libncursesw is available.
2175 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2176 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2177 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2179 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2180 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2181 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2182 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2183 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2184 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2185 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2186 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2189 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2190 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2191 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2194 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2195 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2196 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2197 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2198 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2199 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2202 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2203 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2213 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2214 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2215 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2218 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2219 ----------------------------------
2222 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2225 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2226 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2227 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2228 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2229 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2230 * Updated Polish translation
2233 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2234 ----------------------------------
2237 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2238 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2239 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2242 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2243 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2244 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2245 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2246 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2247 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2248 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2249 to an unexpected application termination
2250 * New Serbian translation
2251 * Updated Romanian translation
2254 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2255 ----------------------------------
2258 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2259 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2260 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2261 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2262 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2263 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2264 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2265 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2268 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2269 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2270 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2271 * Fixed AAC resampling
2272 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2273 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2276 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2277 ----------------------------------
2280 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2281 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2282 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2283 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2284 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2287 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2288 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2289 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2290 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2291 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2294 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2295 ----------------------------------
2298 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2299 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2302 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2303 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2304 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2305 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2307 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2311 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2314 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2317 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2320 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2323 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2324 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2325 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2326 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2327 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2329 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2330 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2331 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2332 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2335 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2338 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2339 ----------------------------------
2342 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2343 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2344 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2346 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2347 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2349 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2350 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2353 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2355 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2356 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2357 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2358 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2359 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2360 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2361 two different movies
2362 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2363 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2364 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2367 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2370 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2371 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2372 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2373 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2376 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2377 ----------------------------------
2379 Various bugfixes, notably:
2380 * Windows Vista compatibility
2381 * Cropping in Direct3D
2382 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2383 * RSS filter string overflow
2385 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2387 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2388 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2391 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2392 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2395 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2398 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2401 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2404 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2405 ----------------------------------
2407 Various bugfixes, notably:
2408 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2409 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2410 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2411 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2412 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2413 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2416 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2417 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2420 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2422 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2423 * Diverse usability improvements
2424 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2425 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2426 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2429 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2430 ---------------------------------
2432 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2433 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2436 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2439 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2440 --------------------------------
2443 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2446 * Support for RTSP authentication
2447 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2448 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2449 * ATSC support for DVB input
2450 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2451 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2452 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2455 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2456 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2457 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2458 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2459 * Matroska WavPack support
2460 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2461 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2462 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2465 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2466 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2467 * Improved libcaca support
2471 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2472 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2474 * Systray support in skins
2476 * Support for Apple Remote control
2477 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2478 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2479 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2480 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2482 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2485 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2486 Windows 9x/ME users:
2487 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2488 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2489 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2490 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2491 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2493 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2494 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2503 * Updates to the libvlc API
2504 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2507 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2508 --------------------------------
2511 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2512 * Support for downloading updates
2516 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2517 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2518 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2519 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2521 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2522 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2523 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2526 * Cook (Real audio) support
2528 Playlist / Services discovery:
2529 * XSPF playlist support
2531 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2534 * New JACK audio output
2537 * New video filters:
2538 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2539 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2540 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2541 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2542 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2543 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2546 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2549 * System to inform the user and request information
2550 - HTTP authentication
2554 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2555 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2556 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2559 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2560 - Improved playlist handling
2561 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2563 - Embedded Video output
2564 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2565 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2566 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2567 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2568 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2570 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2571 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2574 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2577 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2578 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2579 * Growl "Now playing" support
2582 * Ability to log to syslog
2583 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2586 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2588 * A bit more automatic testing
2591 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2592 ---------------------------------
2595 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2596 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2599 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2600 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2603 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2606 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2607 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2613 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2616 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2617 --------------------------------
2620 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2624 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2625 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2626 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2629 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2630 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2631 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2632 * GnomeVFS input module
2633 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2634 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2637 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2638 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2639 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2642 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2643 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2649 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2650 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2653 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2654 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2655 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2658 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2660 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2661 - New extended controls panel
2662 - New bookmarks window
2663 - Fixed playlist sorting
2664 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2666 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2667 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2668 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2669 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2673 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2674 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2676 - Include macro to include other files
2680 * Should now work outside IE as well
2683 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2686 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2687 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2690 The following languages were added:
2694 * Simplified Chinese
2695 The following languages were re-added:
2699 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2700 --------------------------------
2703 * Rewrite of the playlist
2705 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2706 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2707 * Preferences improvements:
2708 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2709 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2711 * Core image manipulation support
2712 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2713 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2714 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2715 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2716 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2717 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2718 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2719 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2720 * Access filter architecture
2721 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2722 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2726 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2727 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2728 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2729 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2730 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2731 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2732 * Massive Matroska improvements
2733 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2735 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2736 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2737 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2738 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2739 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2741 Decoders / Encoders:
2742 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2743 * PNG decoder/encoder
2744 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2745 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2748 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2751 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2752 * Brand new SAP module
2753 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2754 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2755 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2756 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2757 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2758 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2762 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2765 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2766 * Image file video output (png)
2767 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2768 * Improvements to wall video filter
2769 * Support for font color and opacity
2775 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2776 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2777 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2781 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2782 - Improved preferences
2783 - Improvements to the wizard
2784 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2786 - Redesigned playlist
2787 - Improved preferences
2789 - Support for multiple actions
2792 - Support for the new playlist system
2794 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2797 * Screensaver disabling fix
2798 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2799 * Support for no-decoration windows
2802 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2803 * The OpenGL video output is back
2804 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2805 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2806 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2807 is not yet available in the new module
2808 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2811 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2820 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2823 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2826 The following languages were added:
2832 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2833 --------------------------------
2836 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2837 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2840 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2841 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2842 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2845 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2848 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2851 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2854 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2855 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2856 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2860 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2862 * Support of playlist group announcement
2865 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2866 --------------------------------
2869 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2870 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2871 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2872 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2873 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2874 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2877 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2878 (Stream your desktop)
2879 * Improved DVD support:
2880 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2881 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2882 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2883 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2884 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2885 (selection of titles/chapters).
2888 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2889 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2890 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2891 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2892 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2893 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2894 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2895 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2896 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2897 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2900 * G.726 audio support
2901 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2902 * MPEG-4 text support
2903 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2904 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2905 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2909 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2910 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2911 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2912 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2913 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2914 * DVB subtitles encoder
2915 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2916 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2918 * Text track muxing for mp4
2919 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2920 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2921 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2922 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2923 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2924 * Improved ASF muxer
2926 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2927 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2928 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2931 * New audio equalizer filter
2932 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2933 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2934 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2935 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2938 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2939 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2940 with support for effects.
2941 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2942 - New filters can be streamed.
2943 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2944 - Centralized scaling and blending
2946 - "time", to display current time
2947 - "marq", to display a marquee
2950 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2951 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2952 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2953 * A few skins2 improvements
2954 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2955 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2956 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2957 * Improved CORBA control module
2960 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2961 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2962 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2965 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2966 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2967 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2970 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2971 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2972 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2973 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2974 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2977 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2980 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2981 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2984 * Server/client network synchronization module
2985 * VBrick streams fully supported
2986 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2990 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2991 --------------------------------
2994 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2995 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2996 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2997 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3000 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3001 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3002 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3003 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3004 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3005 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3006 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3009 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3010 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3011 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3012 * Improved directory access module.
3013 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3014 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3015 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3016 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3017 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3020 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3021 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3022 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3025 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3026 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3027 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3030 * Improved session announcement system.
3031 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3032 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3033 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3034 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3035 * Improved transrater.
3036 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3037 * New configuration system.
3038 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3041 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3042 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3043 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3044 * Supports scheduling.
3045 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3046 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3049 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3050 - Ability to embed video output.
3051 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3052 - Lots of improvements.
3053 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3054 - New design and set of icons.
3055 - Ability to embed video output.
3056 - Support for hotkeys.
3057 - Support for bookmarks.
3059 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3060 - Better hotkeys handling.
3063 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3064 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3065 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3066 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3069 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3070 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3071 * Improved Windows installer.
3077 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3078 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3081 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3082 ---------------------------------
3085 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3086 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3089 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3090 --------------------------------
3093 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3094 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3097 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3098 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3099 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3100 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3103 * Internal improvments
3104 * Improved import/export
3107 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3109 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3110 small and strange formats.
3112 * New MOD audio demux.
3113 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3114 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3115 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3116 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3119 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3120 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3121 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3127 * New opengl video output plugin.
3130 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3131 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3134 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3135 --------------------------------
3138 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3139 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3140 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3141 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3142 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3143 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3144 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3145 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3148 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3153 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3154 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3155 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3156 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3157 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3158 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3159 * Better Icecast support.
3160 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3161 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3164 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3165 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3166 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3167 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3168 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3169 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3170 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3173 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3174 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3175 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3176 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3177 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3178 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3179 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3180 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3181 * Preliminary RTP support.
3182 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3187 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3188 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3190 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3191 - Improvements and help in preferences
3192 - New streaming wizard
3193 - Revised Disc Open menu
3195 - Improvements of the standard pages
3196 - Support for new commands
3197 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3200 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3201 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3204 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3205 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3206 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3207 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3208 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3209 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3210 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3211 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3212 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3215 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3217 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3218 * Support for Panther.
3219 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3220 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3223 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3224 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3225 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3226 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3227 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3228 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3229 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3230 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3233 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3234 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3235 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3238 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3241 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3242 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3243 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3244 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3247 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3248 --------------------------------
3251 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3254 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3255 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3258 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3259 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3262 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3265 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3266 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3269 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3272 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3275 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3276 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3280 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3281 --------------------------------
3284 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3285 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3289 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3290 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3291 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3293 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3294 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3297 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3300 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3303 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3304 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3308 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3309 --------------------------------
3312 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3313 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3317 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3318 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3319 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3320 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3321 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3324 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3325 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3326 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3329 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3330 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3331 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3334 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3335 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3336 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3337 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3338 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3341 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3342 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3343 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3346 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3349 * Improved build system.
3350 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3351 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3352 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3353 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3356 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3357 --------------------------------
3360 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3363 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3364 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3365 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3366 * Video 4 Linux support
3367 * CD Digital Audio support
3368 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3371 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3372 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3373 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3374 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3377 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3378 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3379 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3380 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3381 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3382 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3383 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3386 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3387 * New HTTP remote control interface
3390 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3391 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3392 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3393 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3394 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3397 * New reset option for the preferences
3398 * You can set your language in the prefences
3399 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3400 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3401 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3402 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3405 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3406 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3407 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3410 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3411 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3412 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3413 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3414 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3415 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3416 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3417 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3418 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3419 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3422 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3423 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3424 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3425 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3426 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3427 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3428 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3431 * Interface localization
3432 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3433 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3434 * New full-featured Preferences window
3437 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3438 --------------------------------
3441 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3442 * support for skins at the interface level
3443 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3444 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3445 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3446 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3447 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3450 * fixed HTTP redirects
3451 * support for opening an entire directory
3452 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3453 * new video4linux access plug-in
3454 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3457 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3458 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3459 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3462 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3463 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3464 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3465 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3466 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3467 * new codec for raw I420 video
3468 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3471 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3472 (although it still misses some important features)
3473 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3476 * new HTTP output support
3477 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3478 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3481 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3484 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3487 * reorderable playlist
3488 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3489 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3490 * support for mono audio output devices
3491 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3492 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3493 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3494 * the messages window remembers more lines
3495 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3496 * http and ogg stream output options
3497 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3500 * new skinnable interface
3501 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3503 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3504 * support for FLAC audio format
3505 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3507 * network tab in the interface
3508 * "apply" handling in preferences
3511 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3512 ---------------------------------
3515 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3516 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3517 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3518 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3520 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3521 * DTS S/PDIF support
3524 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3525 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3526 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3527 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3530 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3531 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3534 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3537 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3540 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3542 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3543 * rc interface is now fully useable
3544 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3547 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3548 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3549 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3550 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3551 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3553 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3554 * support for mouse gestures
3555 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3558 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3559 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3562 * improved ID3 tag detection
3563 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3564 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3565 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3567 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3570 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3571 ---------------------------------
3574 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3575 English was set as the preferred language
3578 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3579 --------------------------------
3582 * new mouse gesture interface
3583 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3587 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3588 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3589 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3592 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3593 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3597 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3600 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3601 without the user consent
3604 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3606 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3607 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3608 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3611 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3612 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3613 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3614 * playlist enhancements
3615 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3616 * new step forward/step backward commands
3617 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3618 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3619 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3622 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3623 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3624 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3627 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3628 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3631 * native video output is working again
3632 * only commandline interface support
3633 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3636 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3637 --------------------------------
3640 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3641 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3642 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3643 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3644 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3645 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3646 and A/52 streams are supported)
3647 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3652 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3653 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3654 * VCD entry points support
3655 * VCD image file support
3658 * support for *.asf format
3659 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3660 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3661 * support for ogg encapsulation
3662 * support for raw DV format
3663 * support for *.wav format
3664 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3667 Stream discovery & playlists:
3668 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3669 * support for .m3u file format
3670 * support for .asx file format
3671 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3674 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3675 (only available with the .avi demux)
3676 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3677 * support for raw PCM data
3678 * support for Cinepak video codec
3679 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3680 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3681 * support for Xvid codec
3682 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3683 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3684 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3686 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3688 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3691 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3694 * new WxWindows interface
3695 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3696 device and the channels configuration
3697 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3698 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3699 format that VLC can play
3700 * new swedish translation
3701 * enhancements of the playlist window
3702 * new messages window to see debug info
3703 * fixed a few crashes
3706 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3707 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3708 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3709 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working