1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
13 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
14 * Support for Ulead DV audio
17 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
20 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
21 * Major improvements in DASH support
22 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
25 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
26 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
27 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
28 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
29 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
30 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
33 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
34 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
37 * new remapping channel filter
38 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
39 * new VSXu visualization plugin
42 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
43 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
44 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
45 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
48 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
49 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
50 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
51 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
54 * added a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
55 * added an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
56 VLC's internal volume level
57 * added an option to show next / previous buttons
58 * added an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
59 * added optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
63 * portaudio audio output
64 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
65 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
66 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
67 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
70 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
71 --------------------------------
74 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
75 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
76 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
77 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
78 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
79 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
80 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
81 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
82 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
83 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
84 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
88 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
89 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
90 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
91 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
92 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
93 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
94 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
95 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
96 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
97 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
98 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
99 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
102 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
103 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
105 * Fix MP3 free format support
108 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
109 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
110 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
111 * Fix for DVB channels file support
112 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
115 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
116 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
118 Audio filters and output:
119 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
120 * Fix DirectSound device selection
121 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
122 * Do not apply volume in file output
123 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
124 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
127 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
128 the persistant media library
129 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
130 to the media library or the temporary playlist
131 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
132 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
133 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
134 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
135 press on the Play/Pause button
136 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
137 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
138 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
139 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
140 * Many Fullscreen fixes
141 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
142 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
143 Synchronization panel
144 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
145 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
146 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
147 * Fix crashes on exit
148 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
150 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
151 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
152 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
153 automatically reset on the first launch.
154 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
155 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
156 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
159 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
160 * Fixes for icecast SD
163 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
164 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
165 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
166 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
167 * Fix tags and file names display
168 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
171 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
172 * Fix for key events and focus loss
175 * Fix display of some buttons
176 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
177 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
180 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
181 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
182 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
185 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
186 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
187 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukranian,
188 Thai translations update
189 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
192 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
193 --------------------------------
196 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
197 * fix the samba module compilation
198 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
199 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
200 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
201 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
204 * Support for MXPEG files
205 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
206 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
209 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
210 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
211 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
214 * Fix ogm header creation
217 * limit spatializer filter distortions
218 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
221 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
222 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
223 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
224 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
227 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
230 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
231 * allow to hide the sidebar
232 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
233 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
234 * noticebly faster launch time
235 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
236 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
237 * improve track synchronization panel
238 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
239 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
242 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
243 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
244 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
245 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
248 * fix for menus display
249 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
250 * documentation update
253 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
254 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
257 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
258 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
259 * Update Jamendo selections
263 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
264 * fix a crash on VLM close
267 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
268 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
269 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201)
270 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202)
273 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
276 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
277 ---------------------------------
280 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
281 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
282 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
283 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
284 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
285 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
286 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
287 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
288 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
289 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
290 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
291 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
292 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
293 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
294 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
295 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
296 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
297 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
298 --http-crl (optional CRL).
299 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
300 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
301 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
302 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
303 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
304 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
305 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
307 Important changes for packagers:
308 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
309 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
310 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
311 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
312 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
313 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
314 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
315 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
316 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
317 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
320 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
321 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
322 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
323 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
324 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
325 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
326 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
329 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
330 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
331 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
332 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
333 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
334 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
335 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
336 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
337 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
338 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
339 * PulseAudio audio input support
340 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
341 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
342 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
343 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
344 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
345 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
346 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
347 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
350 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
351 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
352 are notably concerned.
353 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
354 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
355 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
356 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
357 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
358 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
359 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
360 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
361 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
362 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
363 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
364 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
365 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
366 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
367 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
370 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
371 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
372 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
373 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
374 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
375 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
376 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
377 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
378 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
379 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
380 * Improved support of tracker files
381 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
384 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
385 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
386 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
387 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
388 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
389 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
390 and important cleanups and optimisations
391 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
392 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
393 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
394 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
395 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
396 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
397 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
398 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
399 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
400 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
401 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
402 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
403 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
404 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
405 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
406 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
407 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
408 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
409 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
410 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
411 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
414 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
415 * New video output for iOS platform
416 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
417 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
418 * Various vmem improvements
419 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
420 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
421 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
422 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
423 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
424 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
426 Audio Output and Filters:
427 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
428 * New audio output in memory (amem)
429 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
430 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
431 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
432 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
433 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
434 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
435 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
436 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
439 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
440 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
441 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
442 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
443 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
444 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
445 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
446 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
447 * New anti-flickering filter
448 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
449 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
450 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
451 blackbox and customizable shadow.
452 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
453 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
454 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
457 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
458 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
459 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
460 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
461 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
462 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
463 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
464 * Major rework of VoD support
465 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
466 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
467 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
468 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
469 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
470 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
471 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
472 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
473 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
474 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
477 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
478 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
481 * New capabilities for libVLC:
482 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
483 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
484 list of available audio and video filters
485 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
486 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
487 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
490 * asademux, subsass: use libass
491 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
492 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
494 * upnp: use upnp_intel
495 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
496 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
497 * removal of the noise filter
498 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
499 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
500 removed in Growl's next release, too.
501 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
504 * Update of translations for most languages.
505 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
508 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
509 ----------------------------------
512 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
513 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
516 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
517 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
520 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
521 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
522 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
525 * Camtasia decoding fix.
528 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
529 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
532 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
535 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
536 ----------------------------------
539 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
540 including support for OS X Lion
541 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
542 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
545 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
548 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
549 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
550 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
553 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
556 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
557 ----------------------------------
560 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
561 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
564 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
565 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
566 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
567 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
568 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
570 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
571 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
572 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
574 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
575 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
578 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
581 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
584 * Fix quitting on Linux
585 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
589 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
592 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
595 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
596 ---------------------------------
598 Windows and Mac OS X:
599 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
602 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
603 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
606 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
609 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
612 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
614 Miscellaneous fixes in:
615 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
617 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
618 * RTP output and XML export
619 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
623 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
624 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
625 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
626 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
629 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
630 --------------------------------
632 Windows and Mac OS X:
633 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
636 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
639 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
640 * Improve Apple Remote handling
641 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
642 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
643 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
644 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
647 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
648 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
652 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
653 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
654 * New Luganda Translation
657 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
658 --------------------------------
661 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
664 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
665 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
666 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
667 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
670 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
672 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
673 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
674 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
675 * mp4 demuxer improvements
676 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
677 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
678 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
679 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
681 Miscellaneous fixes in:
682 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
683 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
684 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
685 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
686 * Configure and build system improvements
687 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
690 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
691 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
692 * New icelandic translation
695 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
696 --------------------------------
699 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
703 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
704 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
705 and stability reasons
708 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
712 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
715 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
716 ----------------------------------
719 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
722 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
723 ---------------------------------
726 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
727 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
728 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
729 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
732 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
735 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
736 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
737 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
738 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
741 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
742 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
743 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
745 Subtitles and renderer:
746 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
747 * Mark more freetype options as safe
748 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
749 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
750 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
753 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
754 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
755 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
756 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
759 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
760 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
763 * KDE device solid actions
765 * Transcode integer overflow
766 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
767 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
770 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
771 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
772 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
775 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
776 ----------------------------------
779 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
783 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
786 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
789 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
790 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
791 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
792 * Taglib thread-safety fix
795 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
799 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
802 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
805 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
806 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
808 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
812 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
813 * Miscellaneous fixes
816 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
817 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
819 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
820 * New Asturian translation
823 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
824 ----------------------------------
827 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
829 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
832 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
835 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
836 * Various fixes for Windows
839 * New Armenian translation
840 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
841 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
844 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
845 --------------------------------
848 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
850 * Fix folders opening from the interface
853 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
854 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
857 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
858 --------------------------------
861 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
862 * fix for podcasts parsing
863 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
866 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
867 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
870 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
871 * fix m3u playlists exports
874 * fix video autoresize behaviour
877 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
880 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
883 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
886 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
889 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
890 --------------------------------
893 * Avformat fps displaying fix
894 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
897 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
898 of mono streams, especially on Windows
901 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
902 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
903 * fix console output encoding
905 Interface and extensions:
906 * Youtube and other scripts updates
907 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
910 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
911 --------------------------------
914 * New capabilities for libVLC:
915 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
916 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
917 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
918 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
919 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
920 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
921 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
922 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
923 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
924 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
925 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
926 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
927 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
928 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
929 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
933 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
934 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
935 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
936 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
937 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
940 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
943 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
944 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
945 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
949 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
952 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
953 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
954 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
957 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
958 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
959 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
960 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
963 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
964 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
967 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
968 --------------------------------
970 Important changes for users:
971 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
972 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
974 Important changes for packagers:
975 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
976 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
977 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
978 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
979 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
981 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
983 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
984 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
985 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
986 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
987 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
990 * Support for the sftp protocol
991 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
992 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
993 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
994 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
995 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
998 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
999 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1000 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1002 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1003 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1004 * Invmem module improvements
1005 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1006 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1007 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1008 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1009 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1010 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1011 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1012 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1013 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1014 * Support for VP8 codec
1015 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1018 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1019 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1020 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1021 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1022 * Various EGP improvements
1023 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1024 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1027 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1028 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1029 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1030 * Podcast images are now displayed
1033 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1034 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1035 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1036 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1037 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1038 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1039 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1040 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1041 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1042 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1043 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1046 * New content extensions lua framework
1049 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1050 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1051 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1052 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1053 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1054 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1055 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1058 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1059 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1060 * Service discovery based on libudev
1061 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1064 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1065 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1066 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1067 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1068 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1069 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1070 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1073 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1074 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1075 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1078 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1080 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1081 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1084 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1087 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1088 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1089 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1090 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1091 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1092 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1093 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1096 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1097 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1100 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1101 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1102 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1106 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1107 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1108 * Improved Solaris port
1111 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1112 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1115 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1116 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1117 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1118 * transrate: broken since too long
1119 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1120 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1121 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1122 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1123 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1124 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1125 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1126 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1127 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1128 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1129 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1130 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1131 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1132 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1135 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1136 --------------------------------
1139 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1141 Decoders/Packetizers:
1142 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1145 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1146 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1147 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1148 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1149 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1152 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1153 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1156 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1157 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1160 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1161 and Walloon translations updated
1162 * Sinhala translation started
1165 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1166 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1169 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1170 --------------------------------
1173 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1174 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1177 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1180 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1181 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1184 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1185 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1186 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1187 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1190 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1191 --------------------------------
1194 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1195 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1198 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1199 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1202 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1203 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1206 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1209 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1210 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1213 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1214 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1217 * New Walloon translation
1218 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1221 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1222 --------------------------------
1225 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1226 regressions in most popular drivers
1227 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1230 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1231 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1232 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1235 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1236 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1239 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1240 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1241 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1242 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1243 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1246 * New udev module for linux
1249 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1252 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1255 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1256 --------------------------------
1259 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1260 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1261 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1264 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1265 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1268 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1269 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1272 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1275 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1276 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1277 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1278 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1281 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1282 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1283 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1284 - no support for Goom and SDL
1285 - limited text rendering support
1286 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1289 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1290 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1291 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1292 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1293 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1294 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1295 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1296 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1297 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1301 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1304 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1307 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1308 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1309 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1310 Arabic and French translation updates
1313 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1314 --------------------------------
1317 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1318 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1319 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1320 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1321 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1322 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1325 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1326 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1327 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1330 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1331 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1332 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1335 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1338 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1339 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1342 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1343 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1344 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1345 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1346 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1347 * Fix various crashes
1350 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1352 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1356 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1357 ---------------------------------
1361 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1362 See 'Access:' for more info.
1363 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1366 * Instantaneous pausing
1367 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1368 * Finer speed control
1369 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1370 * Timeshift for most medias
1371 * RTSP trickplay support
1372 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1375 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1376 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1377 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1378 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1379 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1380 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1381 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1382 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1383 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1384 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1387 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1388 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1389 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1390 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1391 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1392 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1393 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1396 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1397 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1400 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1401 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1402 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1403 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1404 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1405 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1406 * DVB scanning on linux
1407 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1408 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1409 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1410 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1411 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1412 * MTP device access on Unix
1413 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1414 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1417 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1418 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1419 Windows and Mac OS X.
1422 * Export the playlist in HTML
1423 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1424 * Better metadata handling and reading
1426 Linux/Windows interface:
1427 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1428 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1429 * Recently played items list
1430 * Interface toolbar customizations
1431 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1432 - More menus actions
1433 - Finer speed slider
1434 - Improvements on many dialogs
1435 - New dialog for plugins listing
1436 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1437 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1438 * Better integration in GTK environments
1441 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1442 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1443 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1444 * Additional usability improvements
1447 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1448 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1449 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1450 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1451 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1454 * New Maemo port with:
1455 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1456 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1459 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1462 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1463 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1464 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1465 * Support for latest iSight models
1468 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1469 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1472 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1473 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1474 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1475 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1476 The old image video output has been removed.
1477 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1478 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1481 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1489 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1490 --------------------------------------
1496 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1497 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1498 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1499 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1500 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1501 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1502 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1504 Various fixes to the following modules:
1507 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1508 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1509 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1511 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1516 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1517 ---------------------------------
1520 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1521 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1524 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1525 ---------------------------------
1528 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1531 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1534 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1535 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1536 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1537 main controller window.
1538 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1541 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1546 * Updates of other localizations
1549 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1550 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1551 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1552 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1553 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1556 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1557 ---------------------------------
1560 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1562 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1565 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1566 --------------------------------
1571 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1572 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1575 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1576 --------------------------------
1578 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1579 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1582 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1585 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1586 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1589 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1590 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1593 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1594 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1595 * Various fixed in playlist
1598 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1601 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1604 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1605 ------------------------------------
1607 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1608 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1611 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1612 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1613 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1616 * Stability fix for the video output.
1619 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1620 --------------------------------
1623 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1624 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1625 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1626 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1627 * Fixed update system bugs
1628 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1631 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1632 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1633 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1634 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1635 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1636 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1637 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1638 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1639 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1640 modern Mac OS X versions
1643 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1644 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1646 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1647 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1650 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1651 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1652 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1653 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1654 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1655 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1658 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1659 --------------------------------
1661 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1662 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1663 * Multiple bugfixes.
1666 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1667 --------------------------------
1669 * Multiple bug fixes.
1672 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1673 ---------------------------------
1677 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1678 recent to work correctly
1679 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1680 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1681 edit the ".hosts" file.
1682 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1683 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1684 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1685 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1686 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1687 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1688 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1689 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1690 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1691 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1692 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1693 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1694 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1695 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1696 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1697 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1698 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1699 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1700 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1701 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1702 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1703 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1704 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1705 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1706 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1707 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1708 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1709 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1710 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1711 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1712 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1713 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1714 and postproc modules.
1715 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1716 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1717 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1718 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1720 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1721 filter. For example:
1722 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1723 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1725 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1726 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1732 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1734 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1735 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1738 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1739 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1741 * Shoutcast TV listings
1742 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1744 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1745 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1747 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1750 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1751 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1752 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1753 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1754 * JACK audio input support
1755 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1756 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1757 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1758 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1759 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1760 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1761 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1762 (available as a separate download).
1763 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1764 * RTMP input support
1765 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1766 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1767 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1769 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1770 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1773 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1774 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1775 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1776 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1778 * APEv1/2 tags support
1779 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1780 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1782 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1783 * TiVo Series 2 support
1784 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1789 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1790 * Flash Screen Video support
1791 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1792 * DosBox Capture support
1793 * Karl Morton's Video support
1794 * limited atrac3 support
1796 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1797 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1798 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1799 * H.264 PAFF support
1800 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1801 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1802 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1803 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1804 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1807 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1808 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1809 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1810 * AQTitle subtitles support
1811 * MKV USF subtitles support
1812 * HTML-based subtitles support
1813 * MPSub subtitles support
1814 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1815 * MPL2 subtitles support
1816 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1817 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1818 * Realtext subtitle support
1819 * DKS subtitle support
1820 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1821 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1824 * Flash Screen Video support
1825 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1827 Video outputs and filters:
1828 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1829 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1830 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1831 * New puzzle video output filter
1832 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1833 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1835 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1836 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1837 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1838 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1839 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1840 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1841 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1842 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1843 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1844 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1845 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1846 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1847 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1848 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1850 Audio outputs and filters:
1851 * Replay gain support
1852 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1853 new scaletempo audio filter)
1854 * New spatializer audio filter
1855 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1858 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1859 * New RTP payload formats:
1860 * Speex voice audio codec
1861 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1862 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1863 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1864 * DCCP transport for RTP
1865 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1870 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1871 end-user suitable way.
1872 * Improved user interaction
1873 * Improved mouse gestures
1874 * Vastly improved Update checker
1875 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1877 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1878 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1880 * Improved video output features
1881 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1882 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1883 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1884 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1885 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1887 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1888 if libncursesw is available.
1889 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1890 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1891 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1893 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1894 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1895 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1896 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1897 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1898 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1899 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1900 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1903 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1904 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1905 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1908 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1909 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1910 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1911 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1912 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1913 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1916 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1917 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1927 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1928 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1929 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1932 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1933 ----------------------------------
1936 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1939 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1940 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1941 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1942 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1943 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1944 * Updated Polish translation
1947 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1948 ----------------------------------
1951 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1952 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1953 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1956 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1957 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1958 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1959 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1960 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1961 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1962 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1963 to an unexpected application termination
1964 * New Serbian translation
1965 * Updated Romanian translation
1968 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1969 ----------------------------------
1972 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1973 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1974 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1975 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1976 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1977 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1978 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1979 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1982 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1983 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1984 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1985 * Fixed AAC resampling
1986 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1987 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1990 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1991 ----------------------------------
1994 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1995 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1996 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1997 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1998 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2001 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2002 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2003 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2004 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2005 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2008 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2009 ----------------------------------
2012 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2013 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2016 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2017 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2018 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2019 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2021 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2025 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2028 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2031 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2034 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2037 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2038 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2039 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2040 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2041 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2043 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2044 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2045 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2046 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2049 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2052 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2053 ----------------------------------
2056 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2057 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2058 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2060 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2061 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2063 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2064 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2067 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2069 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2070 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2071 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2072 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2073 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2074 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2075 two different movies
2076 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2077 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2078 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2081 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2084 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2085 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2086 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2087 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2090 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2091 ----------------------------------
2093 Various bugfixes, notably:
2094 * Windows Vista compatibility
2095 * Cropping in Direct3D
2096 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2097 * RSS filter string overflow
2099 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2101 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2102 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2105 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2106 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2109 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2112 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2115 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2118 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2119 ----------------------------------
2121 Various bugfixes, notably:
2122 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2123 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2124 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2125 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2126 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2127 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2130 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2131 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2134 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2136 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2137 * Diverse usability improvements
2138 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2139 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2140 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2143 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2144 ---------------------------------
2146 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2147 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2150 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2153 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2154 --------------------------------
2157 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2160 * Support for RTSP authentication
2161 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2162 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2163 * ATSC support for DVB input
2164 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2165 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2166 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2169 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2170 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2171 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2172 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2173 * Matroska WavPack support
2174 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2175 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2176 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2179 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2180 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2181 * Improved libcaca support
2185 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2186 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2188 * Systray support in skins
2190 * Support for Apple Remote control
2191 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2192 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2193 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2194 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2196 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2199 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2200 Windows 9x/ME users:
2201 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2202 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2203 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2204 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2205 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2207 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2208 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2217 * Updates to the libvlc API
2218 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2221 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2222 --------------------------------
2225 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2226 * Support for downloading updates
2230 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2231 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2232 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2233 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2235 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2236 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2237 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2240 * Cook (Real audio) support
2242 Playlist / Services discovery:
2243 * XSPF playlist support
2245 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2248 * New JACK audio output
2251 * New video filters:
2252 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2253 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2254 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2255 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2256 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2257 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2260 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2263 * System to inform the user and request information
2264 - HTTP authentication
2268 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2269 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2270 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2273 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2274 - Improved playlist handling
2275 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2277 - Embedded Video output
2278 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2279 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2280 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2281 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2282 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2284 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2285 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2288 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2291 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2292 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2293 * Growl "Now playing" support
2296 * Ability to log to syslog
2297 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2300 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2302 * A bit more automatic testing
2305 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2306 ---------------------------------
2309 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2310 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2313 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2314 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2317 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2320 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2321 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2327 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2330 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2331 --------------------------------
2334 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2338 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2339 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2340 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2343 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2344 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2345 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2346 * GnomeVFS input module
2347 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2348 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2351 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2352 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2353 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2356 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2357 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2363 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2364 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2367 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2368 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2369 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2372 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2374 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2375 - New extended controls panel
2376 - New bookmarks window
2377 - Fixed playlist sorting
2378 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2380 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2381 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2382 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2383 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2387 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2388 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2390 - Include macro to include other files
2394 * Should now work outside IE as well
2397 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2400 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2401 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2404 The following languages were added:
2408 * Simplified Chinese
2409 The following languages were re-added:
2413 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2414 --------------------------------
2417 * Rewrite of the playlist
2419 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2420 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2421 * Preferences improvements:
2422 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2423 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2425 * Core image manipulation support
2426 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2427 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2428 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2429 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2430 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2431 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2432 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2433 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2434 * Access filter architecture
2435 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2436 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2440 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2441 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2442 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2443 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2444 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2445 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2446 * Massive Matroska improvements
2447 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2449 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2450 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2451 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2452 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2453 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2455 Decoders / Encoders:
2456 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2457 * PNG decoder/encoder
2458 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2459 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2462 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2465 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2466 * Brand new SAP module
2467 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2468 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2469 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2470 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2471 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2472 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2476 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2479 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2480 * Image file video output (png)
2481 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2482 * Improvements to wall video filter
2483 * Support for font color and opacity
2489 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2490 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2491 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2495 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2496 - Improved preferences
2497 - Improvements to the wizard
2498 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2500 - Redesigned playlist
2501 - Improved preferences
2503 - Support for multiple actions
2506 - Support for the new playlist system
2508 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2511 * Screensaver disabling fix
2512 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2513 * Support for no-decoration windows
2516 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2517 * The OpenGL video output is back
2518 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2519 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2520 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2521 is not yet available in the new module
2522 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2525 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2534 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2537 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2540 The following languages were added:
2546 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2547 --------------------------------
2550 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2551 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2554 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2555 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2556 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2559 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2562 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2565 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2568 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2569 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2570 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2574 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2576 * Support of playlist group announcement
2579 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2580 --------------------------------
2583 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2584 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2585 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2586 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2587 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2588 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2591 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2592 (Stream your desktop)
2593 * Improved DVD support:
2594 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2595 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2596 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2597 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2598 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2599 (selection of titles/chapters).
2602 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2603 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2604 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2605 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2606 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2607 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2608 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2609 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2610 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2611 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2614 * G.726 audio support
2615 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2616 * MPEG-4 text support
2617 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2618 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2619 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2623 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2624 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2625 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2626 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2627 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2628 * DVB subtitles encoder
2629 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2630 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2632 * Text track muxing for mp4
2633 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2634 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2635 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2636 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2637 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2638 * Improved ASF muxer
2640 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2641 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2642 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2645 * New audio equalizer filter
2646 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2647 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2648 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2649 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2652 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2653 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2654 with support for effects.
2655 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2656 - New filters can be streamed.
2657 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2658 - Centralized scaling and blending
2660 - "time", to display current time
2661 - "marq", to display a marquee
2664 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2665 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2666 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2667 * A few skins2 improvements
2668 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2669 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2670 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2671 * Improved CORBA control module
2674 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2675 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2676 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2679 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2680 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2681 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2684 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2685 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2686 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2687 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2688 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2691 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2694 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2695 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2698 * Server/client network synchronization module
2699 * VBrick streams fully supported
2700 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2704 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2705 --------------------------------
2708 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2709 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2710 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2711 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2714 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2715 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2716 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2717 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2718 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2719 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2720 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2723 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2724 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2725 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2726 * Improved directory access module.
2727 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2728 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2729 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2730 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2731 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2734 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2735 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2736 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2739 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2740 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2741 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2744 * Improved session announcement system.
2745 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2746 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2747 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2748 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2749 * Improved transrater.
2750 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2751 * New configuration system.
2752 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2755 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2756 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2757 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2758 * Supports scheduling.
2759 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2760 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2763 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2764 - Ability to embed video output.
2765 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2766 - Lots of improvements.
2767 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2768 - New design and set of icons.
2769 - Ability to embed video output.
2770 - Support for hotkeys.
2771 - Support for bookmarks.
2773 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2774 - Better hotkeys handling.
2777 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2778 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2779 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2780 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2783 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2784 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2785 * Improved Windows installer.
2791 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2792 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2795 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2796 ---------------------------------
2799 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2800 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2803 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2804 --------------------------------
2807 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2808 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2811 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2812 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2813 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2814 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2817 * Internal improvments
2818 * Improved import/export
2821 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2823 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2824 small and strange formats.
2826 * New MOD audio demux.
2827 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2828 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2829 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2830 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2833 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2834 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2835 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2841 * New opengl video output plugin.
2844 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2845 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2848 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2849 --------------------------------
2852 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2853 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2854 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2855 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2856 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2857 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2858 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2859 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2862 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2867 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2868 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2869 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2870 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2871 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2872 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2873 * Better Icecast support.
2874 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2875 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2878 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2879 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2880 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2881 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2882 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2883 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2884 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2887 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2888 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2889 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2890 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2891 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2892 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2893 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2894 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2895 * Preliminary RTP support.
2896 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2901 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2902 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2904 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2905 - Improvements and help in preferences
2906 - New streaming wizard
2907 - Revised Disc Open menu
2909 - Improvements of the standard pages
2910 - Support for new commands
2911 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2914 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2915 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2918 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2919 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2920 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2921 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2922 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2923 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2924 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2925 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2926 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2929 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2931 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2932 * Support for Panther.
2933 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2934 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2937 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2938 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2939 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2940 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2941 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2942 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2943 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2944 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2947 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2948 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2949 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2952 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2955 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2956 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2957 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2958 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2961 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2962 --------------------------------
2965 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2968 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2969 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2972 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2973 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2976 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2979 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2980 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2983 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2986 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2989 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2990 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2994 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2995 --------------------------------
2998 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2999 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3003 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3004 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3005 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3007 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3008 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3011 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3014 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3017 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3018 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3022 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3023 --------------------------------
3026 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3027 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3031 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3032 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3033 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3034 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3035 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3038 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3039 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3040 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3043 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3044 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3045 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3048 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3049 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3050 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3051 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3052 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3055 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3056 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3057 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3060 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3063 * Improved build system.
3064 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3065 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3066 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3067 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3070 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3071 --------------------------------
3074 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3077 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3078 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3079 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3080 * Video 4 Linux support
3081 * CD Digital Audio support
3082 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3085 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3086 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3087 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3088 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3091 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3092 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3093 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3094 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3095 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3096 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3097 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3100 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3101 * New HTTP remote control interface
3104 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3105 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3106 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3107 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3108 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3111 * New reset option for the preferences
3112 * You can set your language in the prefences
3113 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3114 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3115 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3116 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3119 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3120 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3121 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3124 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3125 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3126 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3127 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3128 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3129 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3130 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3131 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3132 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3133 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3136 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3137 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3138 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3139 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3140 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3141 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3142 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3145 * Interface localization
3146 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3147 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3148 * New full-featured Preferences window
3151 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3152 --------------------------------
3155 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3156 * support for skins at the interface level
3157 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3158 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3159 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3160 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3161 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3164 * fixed HTTP redirects
3165 * support for opening an entire directory
3166 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3167 * new video4linux access plug-in
3168 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3171 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3172 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3173 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3176 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3177 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3178 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3179 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3180 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3181 * new codec for raw I420 video
3182 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3185 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3186 (although it still misses some important features)
3187 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3190 * new HTTP output support
3191 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3192 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3195 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3198 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3201 * reorderable playlist
3202 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3203 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3204 * support for mono audio output devices
3205 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3206 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3207 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3208 * the messages window remembers more lines
3209 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3210 * http and ogg stream output options
3211 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3214 * new skinnable interface
3215 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3217 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3218 * support for FLAC audio format
3219 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3221 * network tab in the interface
3222 * "apply" handling in preferences
3225 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3226 ---------------------------------
3229 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3230 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3231 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3232 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3234 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3235 * DTS S/PDIF support
3238 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3239 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3240 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3241 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3244 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3245 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3248 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3251 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3254 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3256 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3257 * rc interface is now fully useable
3258 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3261 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3262 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3263 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3264 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3265 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3267 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3268 * support for mouse gestures
3269 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3272 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3273 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3276 * improved ID3 tag detection
3277 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3278 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3279 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3281 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3284 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3285 ---------------------------------
3288 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3289 English was set as the preferred language
3292 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3293 --------------------------------
3296 * new mouse gesture interface
3297 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3301 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3302 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3303 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3306 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3307 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3311 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3314 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3315 without the user consent
3318 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3320 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3321 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3322 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3325 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3326 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3327 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3328 * playlist enhancements
3329 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3330 * new step forward/step backward commands
3331 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3332 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3333 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3336 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3337 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3338 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3341 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3342 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3345 * native video output is working again
3346 * only commandline interface support
3347 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3350 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3351 --------------------------------
3354 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3355 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3356 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3357 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3358 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3359 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3360 and A/52 streams are supported)
3361 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3366 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3367 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3368 * VCD entry points support
3369 * VCD image file support
3372 * support for *.asf format
3373 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3374 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3375 * support for ogg encapsulation
3376 * support for raw DV format
3377 * support for *.wav format
3378 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3381 Stream discovery & playlists:
3382 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3383 * support for .m3u file format
3384 * support for .asx file format
3385 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3388 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3389 (only available with the .avi demux)
3390 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3391 * support for raw PCM data
3392 * support for Cinepak video codec
3393 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3394 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3395 * support for Xvid codec
3396 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3397 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3398 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3400 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3402 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3405 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3408 * new WxWindows interface
3409 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3410 device and the channels configuration
3411 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3412 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3413 format that VLC can play
3414 * new swedish translation
3415 * enhancements of the playlist window
3416 * new messages window to see debug info
3417 * fixed a few crashes
3420 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3421 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3422 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3423 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working