3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
12 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
13 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
14 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
15 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
16 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
17 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
18 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
19 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
20 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
21 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
22 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
23 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
25 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
26 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
27 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
28 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
29 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
30 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
36 * Vastly improved playlist support:
37 * Media library support
39 * Shoutcast TV listings
40 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
41 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
42 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
45 * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
46 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
47 * JACK audio input support
48 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
49 * Input run time option ( improved live stream recording )
50 * Fixed aiff stereo file
51 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
52 * Improved FLAC demuxer ( duration / current time / meta data )
54 * APEv1/2 tags support
55 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
56 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
60 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
61 * MKV USF subtitles support
62 * HTML based subtitles support
63 * Flash Screen Video support
64 * CamStudio Screen Video support
65 * DosBox Capture support
66 * Karl Morton's Video support
67 * limited atrac3 support
68 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files (Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...)
71 * Flash Screen Video support
73 Video output and filters:
74 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
75 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
76 * New puzzle video output filter
77 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
78 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
80 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
81 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
82 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
84 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
85 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
86 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
87 was previously part of the mosaic module.
88 * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
89 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
90 * Support for Intel SSE2 intruction set in chroma converters
91 * Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters
93 Audio output and filters
94 * Replay gain support.
95 * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet ).
96 * New spatializer audio filter.
99 * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
103 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
105 * Improved user interaction
106 * Improved mouse gestures
108 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
109 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
110 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
111 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
112 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
113 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
116 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
117 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
118 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
121 * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
128 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
129 ----------------------------------
131 Various bugfixes, notably:
132 * Windows Vista compatibility
133 * Cropping in Direct3D
134 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
135 * RSS filter string overflow
137 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
139 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
140 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316)
143 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
146 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
149 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
152 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
155 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
156 ----------------------------------
158 Various bugfixes, notably:
159 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
160 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
161 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
162 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
163 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
164 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
167 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
168 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
171 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
173 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
174 * Diverse usability improvements
175 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
176 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
177 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
180 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
181 ---------------------------------
184 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
187 * Fullscreen controller improvements
190 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
191 --------------------------------
194 * Shoutcast TV listings support
197 * Support for RTSP authentication
198 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
199 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
200 * ATSC support for DVB input
201 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
202 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
203 * Improved support for Flash Video files
206 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
207 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
208 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
209 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
210 * Matroska WavPack support
211 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
212 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
213 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
216 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
217 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
218 * Improved libcaca support
222 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
223 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
225 * Systray support in skins
227 * Support for Apple Remote control
228 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
229 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
230 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
231 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
233 * Notifications using notification-daemon
236 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
238 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
239 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
240 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
241 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
242 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
244 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
245 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
254 * Updates to the libvlc API
255 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
258 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
259 --------------------------------
262 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
263 * Support for downloading updates
267 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
268 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
269 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
270 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
272 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
273 * Improved subtitles encoding support
274 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
277 * Cook (Real audio) support
279 Playlist / Services discovery:
280 * XSPF playlist support
282 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
285 * New JACK audio output
289 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
290 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
291 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
292 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
293 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
294 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
297 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
300 * System to inform the user and request information
301 - HTTP authentication
305 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
306 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
307 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
310 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
311 - Improved playlist handling
312 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
314 - Embedded Video output
315 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
316 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
317 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
318 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
319 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
321 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
322 - A bunch of new RPN functions
325 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
328 * Mac-Intel compatibility
329 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
330 * Growl "Now playing" support
333 * Ability to log to syslog
334 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
337 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
339 * A bit more automatic testing
342 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
343 ---------------------------------
346 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
347 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
350 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
351 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
354 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
357 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
358 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
364 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
367 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
368 --------------------------------
371 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
375 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
376 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
377 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
380 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
381 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
382 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
383 * GnomeVFS input module
384 * Support for RTP packet reordering
385 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
388 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
389 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
390 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
393 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
394 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
400 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
401 Mixer and Dolby Surround
404 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
405 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
406 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
409 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
411 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
412 - New extended controls panel
413 - New bookmarks window
414 - Fixed playlist sorting
415 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
417 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
418 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
419 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
420 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
424 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
425 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
427 - Include macro to include other files
431 * Should now work outside IE as well
434 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
437 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
438 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
441 The following languages were added:
446 The following languages were re-added:
450 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
451 --------------------------------
454 * Rewrite of the playlist
456 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
457 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
458 * Preferences improvements:
459 - New organization, designed to improve usability
460 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
462 * Core image manipulation support
463 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
464 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
465 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
466 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
467 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
468 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
469 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
470 now separated by ':' instead of ','
471 * Access filter architecture
472 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
473 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
477 * Support for SOCKS proxy
478 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
479 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
480 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
481 * Better support for Kasenna streams
482 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
483 * Massive Matroska improvements
484 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
486 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
487 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
488 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
489 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
490 * Support for FTP over IPv6
493 * Dirac decoder and encoder
494 * PNG decoder/encoder
495 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
496 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
499 * New Record and Timeshift filters
502 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
503 * Brand new SAP module
504 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
505 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
506 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
507 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
508 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
509 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
513 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
516 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
517 * Image file video output (png)
518 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
519 * Improvements to wall video filter
520 * Support for font color and opacity
526 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
527 - Seeking support in VoD streams
528 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
532 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
533 - Improved preferences
534 - Improvements to the wizard
535 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
537 - Redesigned playlist
538 - Improved preferences
540 - Support for multiple actions
543 - Support for the new playlist system
545 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
548 * Screensaver disabling fix
549 * DirectShow tuner configuration
550 * Support for no-decoration windows
553 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
554 * The OpenGL video output is back
555 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
556 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
557 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
558 is not yet available in the new module
559 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
562 * Support for single-buffered overlay
571 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
574 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
577 The following languages were added:
583 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
584 --------------------------------
587 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
588 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
591 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
592 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
593 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
596 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
599 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
602 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
605 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
606 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
607 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
611 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
613 * Support of playlist group announcement
616 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
617 --------------------------------
620 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
621 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
622 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
623 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
624 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
625 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
628 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
629 (Stream your desktop)
630 * Improved DVD support:
631 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
632 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
633 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
634 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
635 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
636 (selection of titles/chapters).
639 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
640 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
641 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
642 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
643 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
644 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
645 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
646 * Improved Ogg demuxer
647 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
648 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
651 * G.726 audio support
652 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
653 * MPEG-4 text support
654 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
655 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
656 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
660 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
661 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
662 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
663 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
664 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
665 * DVB subtitles encoder
666 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
667 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
669 * Text track muxing for mp4
670 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
671 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
672 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
673 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
674 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
677 * H.263 RTP streaming support
678 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
679 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
682 * New audio equalizer filter
683 * Very trivial volume normalizer
684 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
685 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
686 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
689 * Roku HD1000 Video output
690 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
691 with support for effects.
692 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
693 - New filters can be streamed.
694 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
695 - Centralized scaling and blending
697 - "time", to display current time
698 - "marq", to display a marquee
701 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
702 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
703 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
704 * A few skins2 improvements
705 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
706 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
707 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
708 * Improved CORBA control module
711 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
712 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
713 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
716 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
717 * Experimental SVG rendering module
718 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
721 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
722 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
723 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
724 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
725 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
728 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
731 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
732 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
735 * Server/client network synchronization module
736 * VBrick streams fully supported
737 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
741 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
742 --------------------------------
745 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
746 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
747 * Improved HTTP daemon.
748 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
751 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
752 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
753 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
754 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
755 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
756 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
757 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
760 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
761 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
762 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
763 * Improved directory access module.
764 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
765 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
766 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
767 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
768 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
771 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
772 * mmsh streaming fixes.
773 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
776 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
777 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
778 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
781 * Improved session announcement system.
782 * Minimize threads usage by default.
783 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
784 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
785 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
786 * Improved transrater.
787 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
788 * New configuration system.
789 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
792 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
793 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
794 * Supports live streams and VoD.
795 * Supports scheduling.
796 * Telnet interface for vlm.
797 * HTTP interface for vlm.
800 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
801 - Ability to embed video output.
802 - Support for bitmap fonts.
803 - Lots of improvements.
804 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
805 - New design and set of icons.
806 - Ability to embed video output.
807 - Support for hotkeys.
808 - Support for bookmarks.
810 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
811 - Better hotkeys handling.
814 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
815 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
816 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
817 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
820 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
821 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
822 * Improved Windows installer.
828 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
829 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
832 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
833 ---------------------------------
836 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
837 * Playing MOD files is working now.
840 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
841 --------------------------------
844 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
845 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
848 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
849 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
850 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
851 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
854 * Internal improvments
855 * Improved import/export
858 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
860 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
861 small and strange formats.
863 * New MOD audio demux.
864 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
865 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
866 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
867 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
870 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
871 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
872 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
878 * New opengl video output plugin.
881 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
882 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
885 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
886 --------------------------------
889 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
890 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
891 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
892 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
893 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
894 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
895 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
896 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
899 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
904 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
905 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
906 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
907 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
908 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
909 * Reworked DVB tuning.
910 * Better Icecast support.
911 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
912 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
915 * Support for Theora video encoding.
916 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
917 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
918 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
919 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
920 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
921 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
924 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
925 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
926 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
927 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
928 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
929 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
930 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
931 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
932 * Preliminary RTP support.
933 * Fixes to SAP announces.
938 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
939 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
941 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
942 - Improvements and help in preferences
943 - New streaming wizard
944 - Revised Disc Open menu
946 - Improvements of the standard pages
947 - Support for new commands
948 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
951 * Many fixes to the SAP module
952 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
955 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
956 * Text subtitles autodetection.
957 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
958 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
959 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
960 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
961 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
962 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
963 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
966 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
968 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
969 * Support for Panther.
970 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
971 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
974 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
975 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
976 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
977 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
978 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
979 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
980 * Multimonitor support (untested).
981 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
984 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
985 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
986 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
989 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
992 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
993 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
994 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
995 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
998 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
999 --------------------------------
1002 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1005 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1006 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1009 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1010 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1013 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1016 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1017 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1020 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1023 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1026 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1027 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1031 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1032 --------------------------------
1035 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1036 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1040 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1041 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1042 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1044 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1045 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1048 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1051 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1054 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1055 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1059 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1060 --------------------------------
1063 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1064 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1068 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1069 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1070 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1071 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1072 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1075 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1076 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1077 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1080 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1081 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1082 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1085 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1086 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1087 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1088 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1089 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1092 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1093 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1094 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1097 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1100 * Improved build system.
1101 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1102 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1103 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1104 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1107 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1108 --------------------------------
1111 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1114 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1115 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1116 * Video 4 Linux support
1117 * CD Digital Audio support
1118 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1121 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1122 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1123 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1124 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1127 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1128 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1129 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1130 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1131 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1132 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1133 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1136 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1137 * New HTTP remote control interface
1140 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1141 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1142 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1143 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1146 * New reset option for the preferences
1147 * You can set your language in the prefences
1148 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1149 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1150 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1151 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1154 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1155 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1156 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1159 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1160 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1161 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1162 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1163 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1164 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1165 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1166 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1167 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1168 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1171 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1172 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1173 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1174 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1175 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1176 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1177 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1180 * Interface localization
1181 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1182 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1183 * New full-featured Preferences window
1186 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1187 --------------------------------
1190 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1191 * support for skins at the interface level
1192 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1193 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1194 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1195 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1196 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1199 * fixed HTTP redirects
1200 * support for opening an entire directory
1201 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1202 * new video4linux access plug-in
1203 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1206 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1207 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1208 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1211 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1212 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1213 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1214 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1215 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1216 * new codec for raw I420 video
1217 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1220 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1221 (although it still misses some important features)
1222 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1225 * new HTTP output support
1226 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1227 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1230 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1233 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1236 * reorderable playlist
1237 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1238 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1239 * support for mono audio output devices
1240 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1241 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1242 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1243 * the messages window remembers more lines
1244 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1245 * http and ogg stream output options
1246 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1249 * new skinnable interface
1250 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1252 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1253 * support for FLAC audio format
1254 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1256 * network tab in the interface
1257 * "apply" handling in preferences
1260 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1261 ---------------------------------
1264 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1265 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1266 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1267 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1269 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1270 * DTS S/PDIF support
1273 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1274 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1275 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1276 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1279 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1280 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1283 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1286 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1289 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1291 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1292 * rc interface is now fully useable
1293 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1296 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1297 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1298 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1299 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1300 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1302 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1303 * support for mouse gestures
1304 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1307 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1308 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1311 * improved ID3 tag detection
1312 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1313 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1314 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1316 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1319 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1320 ---------------------------------
1323 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1324 English was set as the preferred language
1327 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1328 --------------------------------
1331 * new mouse gesture interface
1332 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1336 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1337 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1338 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1341 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1342 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1346 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1349 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1350 without the user consent
1353 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1355 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1356 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1357 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1360 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1361 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1362 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1363 * playlist enhancements
1364 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1365 * new step forward/step backward commands
1366 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1367 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1368 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1371 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1372 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1373 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1376 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1377 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1380 * native video output is working again
1381 * only commandline interface support
1382 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1385 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1386 --------------------------------
1389 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1390 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1391 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1392 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1393 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1394 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1395 and A/52 streams are supported)
1396 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1401 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1402 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1403 * VCD entry points support
1404 * VCD image file support
1407 * support for *.asf format
1408 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1409 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1410 * support for ogg encapsulation
1411 * support for raw DV format
1412 * support for *.wav format
1413 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1416 Stream discovery & playlists:
1417 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1418 * support for .m3u file format
1419 * support for .asx file format
1420 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1423 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1424 (only available with the .avi demux)
1425 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1426 * support for raw PCM data
1427 * support for Cinepak video codec
1428 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1429 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1430 * support for Xvid codec
1431 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1432 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1433 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1435 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1437 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1440 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1443 * new WxWindows interface
1444 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1445 device and the channels configuration
1446 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1447 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1448 format that VLC can play
1449 * new swedish translation
1450 * enhancements of the playlist window
1451 * new messages window to see debug info
1452 * fixed a few crashes
1455 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1456 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1457 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1458 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working