1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
8 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
9 * New SMB access module using libdsm
10 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
11 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
12 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
13 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
14 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
15 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
16 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
17 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
18 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
19 * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
20 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
23 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
24 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
25 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
26 * Support for Daala video
27 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
28 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
29 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
30 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
31 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
32 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
33 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
34 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
37 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
38 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
39 * Support Daala in Ogg
40 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
41 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
42 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
43 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
44 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
45 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
46 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
47 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
48 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
51 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
54 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
55 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
58 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
59 * Wayland shell surface window provider
60 * Wayland shared memory video output
61 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
62 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
63 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
64 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
65 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes.
68 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
69 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
72 * Chromecast output module
73 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
76 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
79 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
80 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
84 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
85 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
88 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
89 * Port to Yosemite X.10
92 * Batch convert support
95 * Support key accelerators
98 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
99 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
100 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
101 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
102 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
103 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
104 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
105 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
106 identifier (if there is one available)
109 * Support for the SystemD Journal
110 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
111 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
112 * New Android module for logging
115 * remove langfromtelx
116 * remove ZPL playlist format
119 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
120 --------------------------------
123 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
124 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
127 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
128 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
129 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
130 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
133 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
134 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
135 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
136 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
138 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
139 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
140 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
143 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
144 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
145 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
146 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
147 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
148 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
149 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
150 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
151 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
152 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
153 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
154 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
155 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
156 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
157 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
158 * New jpeg image decoder
159 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
160 * New SVG image decoder
161 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
162 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
163 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
166 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
167 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
168 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
169 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
170 * New png image encoder using libpng
173 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
174 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
175 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
176 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
177 synchronization and tracks exclusion
178 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
179 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
180 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
181 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
182 * Support Opus in MKV
184 * Basic support for WebVTT
185 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
186 * Support HDPR TS files
187 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
188 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
189 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
190 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
191 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
192 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
193 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
194 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
195 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
196 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
197 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
198 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
201 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
202 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
203 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
204 * New Android native window provider module
205 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
206 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
207 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
210 * New Oldmovie effect filter
211 * New VHS effect filter
212 * New Freeze effect filter
213 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
214 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
215 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
218 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
219 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
220 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
221 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
222 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
223 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
226 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
227 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
229 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
232 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
233 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
234 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
235 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
236 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
237 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
238 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
239 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
240 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
242 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
243 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
244 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
247 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
248 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
251 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
252 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
255 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
256 * Add record button in Qt menus
257 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
258 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
259 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
262 * Support for OS X Yosemite
263 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
264 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
265 * Fixes for advanced preferences
266 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
267 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
268 * Option to increase playlist font size
269 * Improved crash log reporting
272 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
273 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
274 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
275 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
278 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
281 * iOS video output: use ios2
282 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
283 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
286 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
287 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
288 * Update of all translations:
289 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
290 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
291 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
292 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
293 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
294 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
295 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
298 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
299 --------------------------------
305 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
306 * Fix buffer overflow in updater
307 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
308 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
309 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer
310 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
311 * Fix potential crash in zip access
312 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
315 * Update translations and greek encoding
318 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
319 --------------------------------
322 * Fix compilation on OS/2
325 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
327 Mac OS X audio output:
328 * Fix channel ordering
329 * Increase the buffersize
332 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
333 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
334 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
337 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
340 * Correctly support video-on-top
341 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
342 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
345 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
348 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
349 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
352 * Update British English
355 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
356 --------------------------------
359 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
362 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
365 * Fix DVD playback regression
366 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
367 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
370 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
371 --------------------------------
374 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
375 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
378 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
379 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
380 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
383 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
384 by updating codec libraries
385 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
386 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
387 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
390 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
391 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
392 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
393 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
396 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
397 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
400 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
401 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
402 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
403 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
404 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
407 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
408 * Fix record file names
411 * Fix minimal size possible on start
412 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
413 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
414 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
415 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
418 * Fix album art display on Windows
421 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
422 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
423 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
424 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
425 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
426 and Simplified Chinese translations
427 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
430 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
431 --------------------------------
434 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
435 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
436 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
437 audio devices on OS X
438 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
439 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
442 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
443 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
446 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
447 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
450 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
453 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
454 * Improve A-B loop control
455 * Fix album art update when changing media
458 * Add a language option in the interface
459 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
460 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
461 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
462 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
463 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
464 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
465 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
468 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
471 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
472 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
473 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
474 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
477 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
478 --------------------------------
481 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
483 * Fix some subtitles track selection
486 * VP9 support in WebM
487 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
488 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
491 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
492 * Support Speex in ogg files
493 * Fix some .mov playlists support
494 * Support Alac in mkv
495 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
496 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
499 * Fix DVB options parsing
500 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
501 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
504 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
505 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
508 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
509 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
512 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
513 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
514 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
515 * Fix play after drag'n drop
516 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
519 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
520 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
523 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
524 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
527 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
528 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
529 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
530 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
531 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
532 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
533 * Improves interface resizings
536 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
537 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
538 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
539 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
540 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
544 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
545 --------------------------------
548 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
549 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
550 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
551 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
552 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
554 3rd party libraries (contrib):
555 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
558 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
559 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
560 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
561 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
562 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
565 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
566 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
570 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
571 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
572 * Support for Ulead DV audio
573 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
574 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
575 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
576 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
577 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
578 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
579 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
580 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
581 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
582 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
585 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
586 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
587 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
590 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
591 remove support for previous OS X releases
592 * Major improvements in DASH support
593 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
594 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
595 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
596 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
597 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
598 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
599 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
600 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
601 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
602 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
603 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
606 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
607 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
608 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
609 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
610 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
611 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
612 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
613 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
614 * Support for more MJPEG streams
615 * Add support for liveleak streams
616 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
617 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
618 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
621 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
622 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
623 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
624 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
625 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
626 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
627 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
628 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
629 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
630 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
631 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
634 * New remapping channel filter
635 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
636 * New VSXu visualization plugin
637 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
638 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
639 * New gain audio filter
642 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
643 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
644 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
645 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
646 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
647 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
648 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
649 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
650 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
653 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
654 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
655 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
656 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
657 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
658 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
659 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
662 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
663 * Options support for AVIO output module
664 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
665 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
666 * Livehttp stream encryption support
667 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
668 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
671 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
674 * configurable password for the HTTP server
675 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
676 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
677 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
678 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
679 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
680 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
681 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
685 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
688 * Add support for multiple video outputs
689 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
691 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
692 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
693 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
694 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
695 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
696 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
697 VLC's internal volume level
698 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
700 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
701 selection and to manage the list of presets
702 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
703 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
704 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
705 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
706 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
707 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
708 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
709 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
710 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
711 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
713 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
714 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
715 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
716 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
717 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
718 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
719 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
720 3rd party applications
721 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
722 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
723 (system-wide settings)
724 * Add support for the Video Title option
725 * Add support for the Boss Key
726 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
727 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
730 * Partial support for Qt5.0
731 * Menus modifications and improvements
732 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
733 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
734 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
735 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
736 * EPG display fixes and improvements
737 * Add SD pixmap sources
738 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
739 * Display playlist total duration
740 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
741 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
742 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
747 * Extend sliders, offsets options
748 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
749 * Numerous fixes and improvements
750 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
753 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
754 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
755 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
756 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
757 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
758 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
759 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
760 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
761 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
762 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
765 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
766 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
767 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
768 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
769 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
770 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
772 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
773 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
774 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
775 * Broken crop video filter
777 * OSD parser and menu
778 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
779 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
780 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
781 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
785 * Update of all translations
788 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
789 --------------------------------
792 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
793 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
796 * Fix modplug security issues
799 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
800 --------------------------------
804 * Fix crash in QTsound
805 * Fix screen mouse file location
806 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
809 * Fix use after free in sgimb
810 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
813 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
816 * Fix interface crashes
817 * Fix autostart playback option
818 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
821 * update Welsh translation
822 * New Kannada translation
825 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
826 --------------------------------
829 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
830 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
834 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
837 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
840 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
843 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
847 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
850 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
853 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
854 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
855 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
858 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
859 --------------------------------
862 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
865 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
868 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
869 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
870 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
871 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
872 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
873 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
876 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
877 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
878 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
879 * 3rd party codecs updates
882 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
883 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
884 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
885 in the advanced preferences panel
886 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
887 * Fix crash within the video output code
888 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
889 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
890 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
891 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
893 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
896 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
899 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
900 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
903 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
906 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
907 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
908 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
909 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
910 Dutch, Danish, translations
911 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
914 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
915 --------------------------------
918 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
921 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
922 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
923 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
926 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
927 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
928 * Fix koreus lua parser
929 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
930 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
931 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
932 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
935 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
936 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
939 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
942 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
943 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
944 * Fix Time counter UI look
945 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
948 * Fix https streaming
951 * Fix audio and video track selection:
952 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
953 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
956 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
957 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
958 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
959 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
960 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
963 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
964 --------------------------------
967 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
968 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
969 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
970 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
971 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
972 during playback on Mac OS X
975 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
976 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
977 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
980 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
981 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
982 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
983 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
984 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
987 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
988 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
989 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
990 * Support Youtube live streams
993 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
996 * Fix media info dialog update
997 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
998 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
999 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1000 * Fix album art display at start
1003 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1004 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1005 * Fix menus display and behavior
1006 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1007 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1008 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1009 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1010 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1011 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1012 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1015 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1016 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1017 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1018 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1019 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1020 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1021 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1022 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1023 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1026 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1027 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1028 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1029 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1030 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1033 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1034 --------------------------------
1037 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1040 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1041 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1044 * Add GateKeeper support
1045 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1046 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1047 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1050 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1053 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1054 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1055 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1056 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1057 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1060 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1061 --------------------------------
1064 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1065 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1066 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1067 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1068 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1069 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1070 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1071 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1072 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1073 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1074 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1078 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1079 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1080 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1081 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1082 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1083 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1084 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1085 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1086 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1087 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1088 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1089 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1092 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1093 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1095 * Fix MP3 free format support
1098 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1099 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1100 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1101 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1102 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1105 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1106 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1108 Audio filters and output:
1109 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1110 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1111 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1112 * Do not apply volume in file output
1113 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1114 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1117 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1118 the persistant media library
1119 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1120 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1121 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1122 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1123 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1124 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1125 press on the Play/Pause button
1126 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1127 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1128 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1129 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1130 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1131 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1132 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1133 Synchronization panel
1134 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1135 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1136 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1137 * Fix crashes on exit
1138 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1140 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1141 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1142 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1143 automatically reset on the first launch.
1144 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1145 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1146 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1149 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1150 * Fixes for icecast SD
1153 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1154 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1155 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1156 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1157 * Fix tags and file names display
1158 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1161 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1162 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1165 * Fix display of some buttons
1166 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1167 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1170 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1171 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1172 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1175 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1176 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1177 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1178 Thai translations update
1179 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1182 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1183 --------------------------------
1186 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1187 * fix the samba module compilation
1188 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1189 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1190 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1191 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1194 * Support for MXPEG files
1195 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1196 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1199 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1200 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1201 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1204 * Fix ogm header creation
1207 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1208 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1211 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1212 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1213 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1214 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1217 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1220 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1221 * allow to hide the sidebar
1222 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1223 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1224 * noticebly faster launch time
1225 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1226 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1227 * improve track synchronization panel
1228 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1229 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1232 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1233 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1234 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1235 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1238 * fix for menus display
1239 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1240 * documentation update
1243 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1244 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1247 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1248 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1249 * Update Jamendo selections
1253 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1254 * fix a crash on VLM close
1257 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1258 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1259 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1260 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1263 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1266 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1267 ---------------------------------
1270 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1271 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1272 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1273 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1274 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1275 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1276 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1277 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1278 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1279 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1280 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1281 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1282 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1283 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1284 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1285 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1286 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1287 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1288 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1289 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1290 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1291 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1292 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1293 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1294 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1295 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1297 Important changes for packagers:
1298 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1299 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1300 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1301 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1302 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1303 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1304 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1305 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1306 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1307 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1310 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1311 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1312 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1313 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1314 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1315 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1316 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1319 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1320 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1321 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1322 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1323 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1324 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1325 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1326 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1327 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1328 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1329 * PulseAudio audio input support
1330 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1331 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1332 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1333 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1334 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1335 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1336 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1337 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1340 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1341 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1342 are notably concerned.
1343 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1344 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1345 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1346 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1347 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1348 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1349 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1350 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1351 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1352 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1353 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1354 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1355 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1356 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1357 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1360 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1361 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1362 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1363 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1364 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1365 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1366 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1367 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1368 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1369 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1370 * Improved support of tracker files
1371 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1374 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1375 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1376 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1377 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1378 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1379 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1380 and important cleanups and optimisations
1381 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1382 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1383 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1384 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1385 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1386 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1387 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1388 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1389 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1390 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1391 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1392 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1393 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1394 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1395 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1396 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1397 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1398 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1399 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1400 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1401 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1404 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1405 * New video output for iOS platform
1406 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1407 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1408 * Various vmem improvements
1409 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1410 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1411 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1412 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1413 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1414 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1416 Audio Output and Filters:
1417 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1418 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1419 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1420 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1421 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1422 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1423 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1424 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1425 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1426 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1429 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1430 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1431 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1432 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1433 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1434 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1435 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1436 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1437 * New anti-flickering filter
1438 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1439 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1440 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1441 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1442 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1443 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1444 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1447 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1448 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1449 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1450 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1451 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1452 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1453 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1454 * Major rework of VoD support
1455 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1456 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1457 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1458 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1459 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1460 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1461 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1462 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1463 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1464 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1467 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1468 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1471 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1472 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1473 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1474 list of available audio and video filters
1475 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1476 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1477 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1480 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1481 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1482 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1483 * id3tag: use taglib
1484 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1485 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1486 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1487 * removal of the noise filter
1488 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1489 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1490 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1491 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1494 * Update of translations for most languages.
1495 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1498 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1499 ----------------------------------
1502 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1503 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1506 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1507 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1510 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1511 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1512 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1515 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1518 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1519 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1522 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1525 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1526 ----------------------------------
1529 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1530 including support for OS X Lion
1531 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1532 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1535 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1538 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1539 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1540 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1543 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1546 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1547 ----------------------------------
1550 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1551 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1554 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1555 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1556 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1557 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1558 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1560 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1561 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1562 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1564 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1565 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1568 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1571 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1574 * Fix quitting on Linux
1575 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1579 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1582 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1585 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1586 ---------------------------------
1588 Windows and Mac OS X:
1589 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1592 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1593 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1596 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1599 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1602 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1604 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1605 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1607 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1608 * RTP output and XML export
1609 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1613 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1614 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1615 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1616 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1619 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1620 --------------------------------
1622 Windows and Mac OS X:
1623 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1626 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1629 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1630 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1631 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1632 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1633 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1634 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1637 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1638 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1642 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1643 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1644 * New Luganda Translation
1647 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1648 --------------------------------
1651 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1654 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1655 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1656 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1657 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1660 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1662 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1663 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1664 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1665 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1666 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1667 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1668 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1669 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1671 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1672 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1673 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1674 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1675 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1676 * Configure and build system improvements
1677 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1680 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1681 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1682 * New icelandic translation
1685 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1686 --------------------------------
1689 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1690 #234484 and #260719.
1693 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1694 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1695 and stability reasons
1698 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1702 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1705 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1706 ----------------------------------
1709 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1712 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1713 ---------------------------------
1716 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1717 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1718 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1719 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1722 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1725 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1726 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1727 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1728 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1731 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1732 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1733 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1735 Subtitles and renderer:
1736 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1737 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1738 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1739 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1740 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1743 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1744 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1745 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1746 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1749 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1750 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1752 Miscellaneous fixes:
1753 * KDE device solid actions
1755 * Transcode integer overflow
1756 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1757 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1760 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1761 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1762 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1765 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1766 ----------------------------------
1769 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1773 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1776 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1779 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1780 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1781 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1782 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1785 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1789 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1792 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1795 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1796 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1798 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1802 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1803 * Miscellaneous fixes
1806 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1807 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1808 French and Ukrainian
1809 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1810 * New Asturian translation
1813 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1814 ----------------------------------
1817 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1819 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1822 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1825 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1826 * Various fixes for Windows
1829 * New Armenian translation
1830 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1831 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1834 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1835 --------------------------------
1838 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1839 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1840 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1843 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1844 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1847 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1848 --------------------------------
1850 Access and demuxers:
1851 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1852 * fix for podcasts parsing
1853 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1856 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1857 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1860 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1861 * fix m3u playlists exports
1864 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1867 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1870 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1873 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1876 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1879 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1880 --------------------------------
1883 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1884 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1887 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1888 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1891 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1892 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1893 * fix console output encoding
1895 Interface and extensions:
1896 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1897 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1900 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1901 --------------------------------
1904 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1905 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1906 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1907 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1908 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1909 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1910 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1911 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1912 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1913 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1914 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1915 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1916 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1917 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1918 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1919 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1923 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1924 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1925 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1926 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1927 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1930 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1933 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1934 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1935 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1939 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1942 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1943 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1944 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1947 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1948 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1949 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1950 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1953 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1954 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1957 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1958 --------------------------------
1960 Important changes for users:
1961 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1962 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1964 Important changes for packagers:
1965 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1966 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1967 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1968 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1969 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1971 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1973 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1974 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1975 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1976 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1977 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1980 * Support for the sftp protocol
1981 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1982 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1983 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1984 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1985 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1988 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1989 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1990 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1992 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1993 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1994 * Invmem module improvements
1995 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1996 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1997 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1998 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1999 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2000 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2001 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2002 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2003 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2004 * Support for VP8 codec
2005 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2008 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2009 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2010 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2011 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2012 * Various EGP improvements
2013 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2014 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2017 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2018 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2019 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2020 * Podcast images are now displayed
2023 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2024 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2025 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2026 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2027 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2028 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2029 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2030 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2031 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2032 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2033 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2036 * New content extensions lua framework
2039 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2040 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2041 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2042 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2043 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2044 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2045 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2048 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2049 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2050 * Service discovery based on libudev
2051 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2054 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2055 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2056 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2057 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2058 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2059 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2060 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2063 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2064 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2065 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2068 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2070 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2071 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2074 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2077 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2078 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2079 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2080 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2081 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2082 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2083 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2086 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2087 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2090 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2091 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2092 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2096 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2097 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2098 * Improved Solaris port
2101 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2102 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2105 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2106 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2107 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2108 * transrate: broken since too long
2109 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2110 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2111 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2112 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2113 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2114 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2115 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2116 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2117 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2118 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2119 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2120 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2121 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2122 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2125 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2126 --------------------------------
2129 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2131 Decoders/Packetizers:
2132 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2135 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2136 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2137 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2138 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2139 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2142 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2143 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2146 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2147 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2150 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2151 and Walloon translations updated
2152 * Sinhala translation started
2155 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2156 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2159 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2160 --------------------------------
2163 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2164 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2167 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2170 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2171 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2174 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2175 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2176 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2177 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2180 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2181 --------------------------------
2184 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2185 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2188 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2189 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2192 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2193 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2196 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2199 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2200 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2203 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2204 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2207 * New Walloon translation
2208 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2211 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2212 --------------------------------
2215 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2216 regressions in most popular drivers
2217 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2220 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2221 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2222 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2225 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2226 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2229 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2230 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2231 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2232 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2233 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2236 * New udev module for linux
2239 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2242 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2245 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2246 --------------------------------
2249 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2250 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2251 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2254 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2255 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2258 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2259 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2262 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2265 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2266 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2267 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2268 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2271 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2272 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2273 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2274 - no support for Goom and SDL
2275 - limited text rendering support
2276 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2279 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2280 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2281 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2282 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2283 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2284 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2285 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2286 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2287 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2291 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2294 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2297 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2298 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2299 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2300 Arabic and French translation updates
2303 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2304 --------------------------------
2307 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2308 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2309 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2310 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2311 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2312 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2315 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2316 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2317 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2320 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2321 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2322 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2325 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2328 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2329 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2332 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2333 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2334 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2335 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2336 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2337 * Fix various crashes
2340 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2342 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2346 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2347 ---------------------------------
2351 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2352 See 'Access:' for more info.
2353 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2356 * Instantaneous pausing
2357 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2358 * Finer speed control
2359 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2360 * Timeshift for most medias
2361 * RTSP trickplay support
2362 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2365 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2366 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2367 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2368 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2369 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2370 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2371 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2372 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2373 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2374 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2377 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2378 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2379 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2380 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2381 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2382 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2383 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2386 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2387 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2390 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2391 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2392 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2393 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2394 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2395 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2396 * DVB scanning on linux
2397 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2398 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2399 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2400 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2401 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2402 * MTP device access on Unix
2403 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2404 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2407 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2408 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2409 Windows and Mac OS X.
2412 * Export the playlist in HTML
2413 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2414 * Better metadata handling and reading
2416 Linux/Windows interface:
2417 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2418 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2419 * Recently played items list
2420 * Interface toolbar customizations
2421 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2422 - More menus actions
2423 - Finer speed slider
2424 - Improvements on many dialogs
2425 - New dialog for plugins listing
2426 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2427 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2428 * Better integration in GTK environments
2431 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2432 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2433 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2434 * Additional usability improvements
2437 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2438 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2439 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2440 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2441 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2444 * New Maemo port with:
2445 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2446 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2449 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2452 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2453 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2454 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2455 * Support for latest iSight models
2458 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2459 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2462 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2463 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2464 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2465 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2466 The old image video output has been removed.
2467 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2468 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2471 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2479 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2480 --------------------------------------
2486 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2487 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2488 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2489 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2490 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2491 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2492 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2494 Various fixes to the following modules:
2497 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2498 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2499 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2501 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2506 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2507 ---------------------------------
2510 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2511 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2514 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2515 ---------------------------------
2518 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2521 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2524 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2525 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2526 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2527 main controller window.
2528 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2531 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2536 * Updates of other localizations
2539 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2540 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2541 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2542 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2543 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2546 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2547 ---------------------------------
2550 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2552 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2555 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2556 --------------------------------
2561 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2562 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2565 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2566 --------------------------------
2568 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2569 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2572 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2575 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2576 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2579 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2580 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2583 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2584 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2585 * Various fixed in playlist
2588 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2591 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2594 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2595 ------------------------------------
2597 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2598 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2601 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2602 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2603 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2606 * Stability fix for the video output.
2609 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2610 --------------------------------
2613 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2614 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2615 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2616 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2617 * Fixed update system bugs
2618 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2621 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2622 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2623 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2624 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2625 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2626 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2627 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2628 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2629 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2630 modern Mac OS X versions
2633 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2634 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2636 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2637 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2640 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2641 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2642 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2643 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2644 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2645 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2648 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2649 --------------------------------
2651 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2652 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2653 * Multiple bugfixes.
2656 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2657 --------------------------------
2659 * Multiple bug fixes.
2662 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2663 ---------------------------------
2667 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2668 recent to work correctly
2669 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2670 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2671 edit the ".hosts" file.
2672 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2673 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2674 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2675 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2676 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2677 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2678 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2679 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2680 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2681 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2682 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2683 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2684 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2685 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2686 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2687 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2688 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2689 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2690 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2691 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2692 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2693 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2694 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2695 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2696 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2697 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2698 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2699 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2700 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2701 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2702 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2703 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2704 and postproc modules.
2705 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2706 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2707 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2708 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2710 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2711 filter. For example:
2712 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2713 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2715 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2716 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2722 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2724 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2725 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2728 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2729 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2731 * Shoutcast TV listings
2732 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2734 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2735 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2737 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2740 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2741 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2742 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2743 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2744 * JACK audio input support
2745 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2746 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2747 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2748 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2749 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2750 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2751 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2752 (available as a separate download).
2753 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2754 * RTMP input support
2755 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2756 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2757 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2759 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2760 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2763 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2764 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2765 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2766 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2768 * APEv1/2 tags support
2769 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2770 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2772 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2773 * TiVo Series 2 support
2774 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2779 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2780 * Flash Screen Video support
2781 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2782 * DosBox Capture support
2783 * Karl Morton's Video support
2784 * limited atrac3 support
2786 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2787 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2788 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2789 * H.264 PAFF support
2790 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2791 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2792 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2793 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2794 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2797 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2798 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2799 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2800 * AQTitle subtitles support
2801 * MKV USF subtitles support
2802 * HTML-based subtitles support
2803 * MPSub subtitles support
2804 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2805 * MPL2 subtitles support
2806 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2807 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2808 * Realtext subtitle support
2809 * DKS subtitle support
2810 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2811 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2814 * Flash Screen Video support
2815 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2817 Video outputs and filters:
2818 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2819 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2820 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2821 * New puzzle video output filter
2822 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2823 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2825 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2826 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2827 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2828 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2829 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2830 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2831 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2832 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2833 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2834 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2835 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2836 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2837 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2838 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2840 Audio outputs and filters:
2841 * Replay gain support
2842 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2843 new scaletempo audio filter)
2844 * New spatializer audio filter
2845 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2848 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2849 * New RTP payload formats:
2850 * Speex voice audio codec
2851 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2852 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2853 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2854 * DCCP transport for RTP
2855 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2860 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2861 end-user suitable way.
2862 * Improved user interaction
2863 * Improved mouse gestures
2864 * Vastly improved Update checker
2865 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2867 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2868 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2870 * Improved video output features
2871 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2872 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2873 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2874 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2875 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2877 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2878 if libncursesw is available.
2879 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2880 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2881 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2883 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2884 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2885 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2886 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2887 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2888 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2889 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2890 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2893 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2894 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2895 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2898 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2899 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2900 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2901 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2902 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2903 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2906 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2907 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2917 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2918 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2919 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2922 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2923 ----------------------------------
2926 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2929 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2930 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2931 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2932 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2933 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2934 * Updated Polish translation
2937 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2938 ----------------------------------
2941 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2942 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2943 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2946 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2947 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2948 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2949 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2950 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2951 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2952 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2953 to an unexpected application termination
2954 * New Serbian translation
2955 * Updated Romanian translation
2958 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2959 ----------------------------------
2962 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2963 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2964 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2965 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2966 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2967 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2968 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2969 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2972 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2973 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2974 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2975 * Fixed AAC resampling
2976 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2977 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2980 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2981 ----------------------------------
2984 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2985 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2986 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2987 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2988 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2991 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2992 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2993 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2994 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2995 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2998 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2999 ----------------------------------
3002 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3003 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3006 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3007 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3008 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3009 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3011 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3015 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3018 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3021 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3024 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3027 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3028 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3029 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3030 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3031 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3033 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3034 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3035 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3036 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3039 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3042 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3043 ----------------------------------
3046 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3047 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3048 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3050 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3051 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3053 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3054 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3057 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3059 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3060 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3061 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3062 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3063 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3064 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3065 two different movies
3066 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3067 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3068 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3071 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3074 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3075 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3076 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3077 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3080 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3081 ----------------------------------
3083 Various bugfixes, notably:
3084 * Windows Vista compatibility
3085 * Cropping in Direct3D
3086 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3087 * RSS filter string overflow
3089 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3091 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3092 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3095 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3096 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3099 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3102 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3105 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3108 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3109 ----------------------------------
3111 Various bugfixes, notably:
3112 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3113 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3114 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3115 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3116 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3117 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3120 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3121 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3124 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3126 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3127 * Diverse usability improvements
3128 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3129 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3130 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3133 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3134 ---------------------------------
3136 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3137 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3140 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3143 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3144 --------------------------------
3147 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3150 * Support for RTSP authentication
3151 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3152 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3153 * ATSC support for DVB input
3154 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3155 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3156 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3159 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3160 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3161 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3162 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3163 * Matroska WavPack support
3164 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3165 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3166 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3169 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3170 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3171 * Improved libcaca support
3175 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3176 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3178 * Systray support in skins
3180 * Support for Apple Remote control
3181 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3182 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3183 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3184 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3186 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3189 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3190 Windows 9x/ME users:
3191 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3192 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3193 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3194 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3195 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3197 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3198 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3207 * Updates to the libvlc API
3208 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3211 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3212 --------------------------------
3215 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3216 * Support for downloading updates
3220 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3221 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3222 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3223 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3225 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3226 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3227 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3230 * Cook (Real audio) support
3232 Playlist / Services discovery:
3233 * XSPF playlist support
3235 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3238 * New JACK audio output
3241 * New video filters:
3242 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3243 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3244 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3245 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3246 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3247 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3250 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3253 * System to inform the user and request information
3254 - HTTP authentication
3258 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3259 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3260 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3263 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3264 - Improved playlist handling
3265 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3267 - Embedded Video output
3268 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3269 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3270 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3271 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3272 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3274 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3275 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3278 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3281 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3282 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3283 * Growl "Now playing" support
3286 * Ability to log to syslog
3287 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3290 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3292 * A bit more automatic testing
3295 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3296 ---------------------------------
3299 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3300 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3303 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3304 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3307 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3310 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3311 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3317 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3320 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3321 --------------------------------
3324 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3328 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3329 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3330 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3333 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3334 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3335 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3336 * GnomeVFS input module
3337 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3338 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3341 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3342 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3343 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3346 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3347 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3353 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3354 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3357 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3358 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3359 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3362 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3364 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3365 - New extended controls panel
3366 - New bookmarks window
3367 - Fixed playlist sorting
3368 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3370 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3371 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3372 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3373 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3377 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3378 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3380 - Include macro to include other files
3384 * Should now work outside IE as well
3387 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3390 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3391 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3394 The following languages were added:
3398 * Simplified Chinese
3399 The following languages were re-added:
3403 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3404 --------------------------------
3407 * Rewrite of the playlist
3409 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3410 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3411 * Preferences improvements:
3412 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3413 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3415 * Core image manipulation support
3416 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3417 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3418 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3419 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3420 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3421 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3422 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3423 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3424 * Access filter architecture
3425 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3426 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3430 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3431 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3432 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3433 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3434 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3435 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3436 * Massive Matroska improvements
3437 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3439 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3440 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3441 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3442 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3443 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3445 Decoders / Encoders:
3446 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3447 * PNG decoder/encoder
3448 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3449 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3452 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3455 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3456 * Brand new SAP module
3457 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3458 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3459 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3460 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3461 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3462 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3466 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3469 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3470 * Image file video output (png)
3471 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3472 * Improvements to wall video filter
3473 * Support for font color and opacity
3479 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3480 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3481 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3485 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3486 - Improved preferences
3487 - Improvements to the wizard
3488 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3490 - Redesigned playlist
3491 - Improved preferences
3493 - Support for multiple actions
3496 - Support for the new playlist system
3498 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3501 * Screensaver disabling fix
3502 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3503 * Support for no-decoration windows
3506 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3507 * The OpenGL video output is back
3508 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3509 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3510 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3511 is not yet available in the new module
3512 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3515 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3524 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3527 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3530 The following languages were added:
3536 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3537 --------------------------------
3540 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3541 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3544 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3545 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3546 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3549 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3552 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3555 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3558 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3559 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3560 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3564 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3566 * Support of playlist group announcement
3569 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3570 --------------------------------
3573 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3574 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3575 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3576 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3577 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3578 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3581 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3582 (Stream your desktop)
3583 * Improved DVD support:
3584 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3585 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3586 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3587 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3588 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3589 (selection of titles/chapters).
3592 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3593 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3594 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3595 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3596 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3597 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3598 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3599 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3600 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3601 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3604 * G.726 audio support
3605 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3606 * MPEG-4 text support
3607 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3608 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3609 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3613 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3614 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3615 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3616 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3617 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3618 * DVB subtitles encoder
3619 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3620 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3622 * Text track muxing for mp4
3623 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3624 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3625 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3626 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3627 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3628 * Improved ASF muxer
3630 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3631 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3632 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3635 * New audio equalizer filter
3636 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3637 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3638 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3639 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3642 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3643 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3644 with support for effects.
3645 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3646 - New filters can be streamed.
3647 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3648 - Centralized scaling and blending
3650 - "time", to display current time
3651 - "marq", to display a marquee
3654 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3655 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3656 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3657 * A few skins2 improvements
3658 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3659 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3660 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3661 * Improved CORBA control module
3664 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3665 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3666 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3669 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3670 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3671 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3674 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3675 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3676 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3677 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3678 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3681 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3684 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3685 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3688 * Server/client network synchronization module
3689 * VBrick streams fully supported
3690 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3694 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3695 --------------------------------
3698 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3699 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3700 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3701 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3704 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3705 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3706 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3707 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3708 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3709 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3710 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3713 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3714 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3715 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3716 * Improved directory access module.
3717 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3718 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3719 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3720 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3721 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3724 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3725 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3726 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3729 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3730 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3731 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3734 * Improved session announcement system.
3735 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3736 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3737 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3738 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3739 * Improved transrater.
3740 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3741 * New configuration system.
3742 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3745 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3746 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3747 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3748 * Supports scheduling.
3749 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3750 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3753 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3754 - Ability to embed video output.
3755 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3756 - Lots of improvements.
3757 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3758 - New design and set of icons.
3759 - Ability to embed video output.
3760 - Support for hotkeys.
3761 - Support for bookmarks.
3763 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3764 - Better hotkeys handling.
3767 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3768 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3769 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3770 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3773 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3774 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3775 * Improved Windows installer.
3781 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3782 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3785 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3786 ---------------------------------
3789 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3790 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3793 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3794 --------------------------------
3797 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3798 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3801 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3802 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3803 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3804 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3807 * Internal improvments
3808 * Improved import/export
3811 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3813 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3814 small and strange formats.
3816 * New MOD audio demux.
3817 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3818 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3819 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3820 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3823 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3824 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3825 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3831 * New opengl video output plugin.
3834 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3835 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3838 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3839 --------------------------------
3842 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3843 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3844 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3845 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3846 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3847 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3848 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3849 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3852 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3857 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3858 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3859 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3860 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3861 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3862 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3863 * Better Icecast support.
3864 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3865 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3868 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3869 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3870 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3871 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3872 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3873 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3874 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3877 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3878 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3879 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3880 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3881 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3882 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3883 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3884 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3885 * Preliminary RTP support.
3886 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3891 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3892 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3894 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3895 - Improvements and help in preferences
3896 - New streaming wizard
3897 - Revised Disc Open menu
3899 - Improvements of the standard pages
3900 - Support for new commands
3901 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3904 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3905 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3908 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3909 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3910 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3911 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3912 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3913 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3914 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3915 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3916 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3919 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3921 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3922 * Support for Panther.
3923 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3924 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3927 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3928 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3929 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3930 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3931 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3932 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3933 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3934 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3937 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3938 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3939 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3942 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3945 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3946 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3947 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3948 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3951 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3952 --------------------------------
3955 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3958 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3959 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3962 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3963 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3966 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3969 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3970 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3973 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3976 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3979 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3980 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3984 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3985 --------------------------------
3988 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3989 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3993 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3994 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3995 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3997 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3998 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4001 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4004 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4007 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4008 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4012 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4013 --------------------------------
4016 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4017 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4021 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4022 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4023 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4024 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4025 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4028 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4029 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4030 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4033 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4034 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4035 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4038 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4039 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4040 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4041 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4042 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4045 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4046 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4047 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4050 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4053 * Improved build system.
4054 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4055 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4056 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4057 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4060 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4061 --------------------------------
4064 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4067 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4068 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4069 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4070 * Video 4 Linux support
4071 * CD Digital Audio support
4072 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4075 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4076 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4077 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4078 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4081 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4082 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4083 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4084 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4085 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4086 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4087 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4090 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4091 * New HTTP remote control interface
4094 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4095 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4096 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4097 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4098 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4101 * New reset option for the preferences
4102 * You can set your language in the prefences
4103 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4104 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4105 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4106 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4109 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4110 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4111 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4114 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4115 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4116 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4117 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4118 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4119 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4120 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4121 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4122 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4123 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4126 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4127 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4128 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4129 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4130 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4131 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4132 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4135 * Interface localization
4136 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4137 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4138 * New full-featured Preferences window
4141 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4142 --------------------------------
4145 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4146 * support for skins at the interface level
4147 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4148 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4149 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4150 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4151 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4154 * fixed HTTP redirects
4155 * support for opening an entire directory
4156 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4157 * new video4linux access plug-in
4158 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4161 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4162 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4163 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4166 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4167 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4168 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4169 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4170 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4171 * new codec for raw I420 video
4172 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4175 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4176 (although it still misses some important features)
4177 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4180 * new HTTP output support
4181 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4182 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4185 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4188 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4191 * reorderable playlist
4192 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4193 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4194 * support for mono audio output devices
4195 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4196 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4197 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4198 * the messages window remembers more lines
4199 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4200 * http and ogg stream output options
4201 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4204 * new skinnable interface
4205 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4207 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4208 * support for FLAC audio format
4209 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4211 * network tab in the interface
4212 * "apply" handling in preferences
4215 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4216 ---------------------------------
4219 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4220 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4221 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4222 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4224 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4225 * DTS S/PDIF support
4228 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4229 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4230 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4231 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4234 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4235 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4238 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4241 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4244 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4246 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4247 * rc interface is now fully useable
4248 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4251 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4252 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4253 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4254 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4255 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4257 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4258 * support for mouse gestures
4259 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4262 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4263 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4266 * improved ID3 tag detection
4267 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4268 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4269 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4271 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4274 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4275 ---------------------------------
4278 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4279 English was set as the preferred language
4282 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4283 --------------------------------
4286 * new mouse gesture interface
4287 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4291 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4292 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4293 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4296 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4297 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4301 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4304 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4305 without the user consent
4308 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4310 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4311 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4312 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4315 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4316 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4317 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4318 * playlist enhancements
4319 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4320 * new step forward/step backward commands
4321 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4322 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4323 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4326 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4327 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4328 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4331 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4332 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4335 * native video output is working again
4336 * only commandline interface support
4337 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4340 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4341 --------------------------------
4344 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4345 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4346 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4347 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4348 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4349 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4350 and A/52 streams are supported)
4351 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4356 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4357 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4358 * VCD entry points support
4359 * VCD image file support
4362 * support for *.asf format
4363 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4364 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4365 * support for ogg encapsulation
4366 * support for raw DV format
4367 * support for *.wav format
4368 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4371 Stream discovery & playlists:
4372 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4373 * support for .m3u file format
4374 * support for .asx file format
4375 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4378 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4379 (only available with the .avi demux)
4380 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4381 * support for raw PCM data
4382 * support for Cinepak video codec
4383 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4384 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4385 * support for Xvid codec
4386 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4387 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4388 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4390 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4392 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4395 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4398 * new WxWindows interface
4399 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4400 device and the channels configuration
4401 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4402 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4403 format that VLC can play
4404 * new swedish translation
4405 * enhancements of the playlist window
4406 * new messages window to see debug info
4407 * fixed a few crashes
4410 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4411 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4412 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4413 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working