1 Changes between 0.9.8a and 1.0.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Instantaneous pausing
6 * Frame-by-Frame playback
8 * Timeshift for most medias
9 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
10 * RTSP trickplay support
14 * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b)
17 * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice)
18 * Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
19 * WMA v1/2 fixed point integer
20 * Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard
23 * Support for Dirac and RealVideo in Matroska files
24 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
25 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
28 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
29 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
32 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
33 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
34 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
35 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
36 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
37 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
38 * DVB scanning on linux
39 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
40 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)
41 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
42 * MTP device access on Unix
43 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
46 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
47 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
51 * Export the playlist in HTML
52 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
53 * Better metadata handling and reading
55 Linux/Windows interface:
56 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
57 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
58 * Recently played items list
59 * Interface toolbar customizations
60 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
63 - Improvements on many dialogs
64 - New dialog for plugins listing
65 - Fixed-size mode for videos
66 - Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
67 * Better integration in GTK environments
70 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
73 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
74 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
75 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
76 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
79 * New Maemo port with:
80 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
81 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
84 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
87 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
88 * Surround support for PulseAudio
91 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
92 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
95 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
98 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
99 ---------------------------------
102 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
104 Bunch of small bugfixes.
107 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
108 --------------------------------
113 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
114 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
117 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
118 --------------------------------
120 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
121 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
124 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
127 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
128 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
131 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
132 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
135 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
136 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
137 * Various fixed in playlist
140 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
143 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
146 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
147 ------------------------------------
149 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
150 * Fixes several memory leaks.
153 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
154 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
155 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
158 * Stability fix for the video output.
161 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
162 --------------------------------
165 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
166 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
167 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
168 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
169 * Fixed update system bugs
170 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
173 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
174 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
175 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
176 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
177 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
178 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
179 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
180 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
181 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
182 modern Mac OS X versions
185 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
186 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
188 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
189 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
192 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
193 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
194 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
195 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
196 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
197 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
200 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
201 --------------------------------
203 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
204 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
208 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
209 --------------------------------
211 * Multiple bug fixes.
214 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
215 ---------------------------------
219 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
220 recent to work correctly
221 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
222 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
223 edit the ".hosts" file.
224 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
225 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
226 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
227 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
228 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
229 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
230 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
231 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
232 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
233 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
234 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
235 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
236 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
237 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
238 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
239 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
240 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
241 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
242 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
243 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
244 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
245 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
246 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
247 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
248 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
249 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
250 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
251 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
252 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
253 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
254 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
255 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
256 and postproc modules.
257 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
258 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
259 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
260 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
262 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
264 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
265 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
267 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
268 * Glide video output module has been removed.
274 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
276 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
277 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
280 * Vastly improved playlist support:
281 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
283 * Shoutcast TV listings
284 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
286 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
287 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
289 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
292 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
293 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
294 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
295 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
296 * JACK audio input support
297 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
298 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
299 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
300 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
301 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
302 * Experimental EyeTV access module
303 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
304 (available as a separate download).
305 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
307 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
308 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
309 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
311 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
312 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
315 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
316 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
317 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
318 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
320 * APEv1/2 tags support
321 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
322 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
324 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
325 * TiVo Series 2 support
326 * CD+G karaoke Files support
331 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
332 * Flash Screen Video support
333 * CamStudio Screen Video support
334 * DosBox Capture support
335 * Karl Morton's Video support
336 * limited atrac3 support
338 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
339 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
340 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
342 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
343 * NellyMoser ASAO support
344 * APE (Monkey audio) support
345 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
346 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
349 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
350 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
351 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
352 * AQTitle subtitles support
353 * MKV USF subtitles support
354 * HTML-based subtitles support
355 * MPSub subtitles support
356 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
357 * MPL2 subtitles support
358 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
359 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
360 * Realtext subtitle support
361 * DKS subtitle support
362 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
363 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
366 * Flash Screen Video support
367 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
369 Video outputs and filters:
370 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
371 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
372 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
373 * New puzzle video output filter
374 * Re-written motion detection video filter
375 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
377 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
378 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
379 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
380 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
381 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
382 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
383 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
384 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
385 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
386 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
387 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
388 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
389 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
390 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
392 Audio outputs and filters:
393 * Replay gain support
394 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
395 new scaletempo audio filter)
396 * New spatializer audio filter
397 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
400 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
401 * New RTP payload formats:
402 * Speex voice audio codec
403 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
404 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
405 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
406 * DCCP transport for RTP
407 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
412 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
413 end-user suitable way.
414 * Improved user interaction
415 * Improved mouse gestures
416 * Vastly improved Update checker
417 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
419 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
420 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
422 * Improved video output features
423 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
424 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
425 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
426 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
427 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
429 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
430 if libncursesw is available.
431 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
432 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
433 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
435 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
436 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
437 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
438 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
439 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
440 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
441 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
442 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
445 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
446 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
447 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
450 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
451 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
452 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
453 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
454 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
455 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
458 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
459 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
469 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
470 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
471 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
474 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
475 ----------------------------------
478 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
481 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
482 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
483 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
484 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
485 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
486 * Updated Polish translation
489 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
490 ----------------------------------
493 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
494 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
495 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
498 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
499 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
500 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
501 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
502 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
503 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
504 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
505 to an unexpected application termination
506 * New Serbian translation
507 * Updated Romanian translation
510 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
511 ----------------------------------
514 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
515 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
516 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
517 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
518 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
519 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
520 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
521 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
524 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
525 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
526 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
527 * Fixed AAC resampling
528 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
529 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
532 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
533 ----------------------------------
536 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
537 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
538 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
539 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
540 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
543 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
544 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
545 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
546 * Close MMS access on network timeout
547 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
550 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
551 ----------------------------------
554 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
555 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
558 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
559 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
560 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
561 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
563 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
567 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
570 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
573 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
576 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
579 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
580 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
581 encoding on multi-cpu systems
582 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
583 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
585 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
586 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
587 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
588 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
591 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
594 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
595 ----------------------------------
598 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
599 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
600 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
602 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
603 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
605 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
606 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
609 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
611 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
612 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
613 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
614 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
615 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
616 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
618 * Support for current Ogg file formats
619 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
620 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
623 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
626 * The automatic updating facility was removed
627 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
628 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
629 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
632 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
633 ----------------------------------
635 Various bugfixes, notably:
636 * Windows Vista compatibility
637 * Cropping in Direct3D
638 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
639 * RSS filter string overflow
641 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
643 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
644 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
647 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
648 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
651 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
654 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
657 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
660 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
661 ----------------------------------
663 Various bugfixes, notably:
664 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
665 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
666 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
667 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
668 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
669 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
672 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
673 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
676 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
678 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
679 * Diverse usability improvements
680 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
681 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
682 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
685 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
686 ---------------------------------
689 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
692 * Fullscreen controller improvements
695 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
696 --------------------------------
699 * Shoutcast TV listings support
702 * Support for RTSP authentication
703 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
704 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
705 * ATSC support for DVB input
706 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
707 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
708 * Improved support for Flash Video files
711 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
712 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
713 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
714 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
715 * Matroska WavPack support
716 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
717 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
718 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
721 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
722 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
723 * Improved libcaca support
727 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
728 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
730 * Systray support in skins
732 * Support for Apple Remote control
733 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
734 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
735 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
736 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
738 * Notifications using notification-daemon
741 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
743 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
744 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
745 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
746 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
747 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
749 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
750 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
759 * Updates to the libvlc API
760 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
763 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
764 --------------------------------
767 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
768 * Support for downloading updates
772 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
773 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
774 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
775 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
777 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
778 * Improved subtitles encoding support
779 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
782 * Cook (Real audio) support
784 Playlist / Services discovery:
785 * XSPF playlist support
787 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
790 * New JACK audio output
794 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
795 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
796 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
797 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
798 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
799 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
802 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
805 * System to inform the user and request information
806 - HTTP authentication
810 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
811 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
812 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
815 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
816 - Improved playlist handling
817 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
819 - Embedded Video output
820 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
821 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
822 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
823 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
824 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
826 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
827 - A bunch of new RPN functions
830 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
833 * Mac-Intel compatibility
834 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
835 * Growl "Now playing" support
838 * Ability to log to syslog
839 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
842 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
844 * A bit more automatic testing
847 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
848 ---------------------------------
851 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
852 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
855 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
856 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
859 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
862 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
863 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
869 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
872 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
873 --------------------------------
876 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
880 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
881 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
882 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
885 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
886 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
887 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
888 * GnomeVFS input module
889 * Support for RTP packet reordering
890 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
893 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
894 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
895 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
898 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
899 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
905 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
906 Mixer and Dolby Surround
909 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
910 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
911 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
914 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
916 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
917 - New extended controls panel
918 - New bookmarks window
919 - Fixed playlist sorting
920 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
922 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
923 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
924 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
925 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
929 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
930 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
932 - Include macro to include other files
936 * Should now work outside IE as well
939 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
942 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
943 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
946 The following languages were added:
951 The following languages were re-added:
955 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
956 --------------------------------
959 * Rewrite of the playlist
961 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
962 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
963 * Preferences improvements:
964 - New organization, designed to improve usability
965 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
967 * Core image manipulation support
968 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
969 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
970 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
971 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
972 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
973 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
974 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
975 now separated by ':' instead of ','
976 * Access filter architecture
977 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
978 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
982 * Support for SOCKS proxy
983 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
984 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
985 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
986 * Better support for Kasenna streams
987 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
988 * Massive Matroska improvements
989 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
991 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
992 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
993 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
994 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
995 * Support for FTP over IPv6
998 * Dirac decoder and encoder
999 * PNG decoder/encoder
1000 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1001 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1004 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1007 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1008 * Brand new SAP module
1009 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1010 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1011 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1012 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1013 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1014 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1018 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1021 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1022 * Image file video output (png)
1023 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1024 * Improvements to wall video filter
1025 * Support for font color and opacity
1031 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1032 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1033 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1037 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1038 - Improved preferences
1039 - Improvements to the wizard
1040 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1042 - Redesigned playlist
1043 - Improved preferences
1045 - Support for multiple actions
1048 - Support for the new playlist system
1050 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1053 * Screensaver disabling fix
1054 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1055 * Support for no-decoration windows
1058 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1059 * The OpenGL video output is back
1060 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1061 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1062 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1063 is not yet available in the new module
1064 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1067 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1076 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1079 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1082 The following languages were added:
1088 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1089 --------------------------------
1092 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1093 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1096 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1097 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1098 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1101 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1104 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1107 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1110 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1111 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1112 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1116 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1118 * Support of playlist group announcement
1121 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1122 --------------------------------
1125 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1126 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1127 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1128 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1129 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1130 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1133 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1134 (Stream your desktop)
1135 * Improved DVD support:
1136 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1137 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1138 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1139 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1140 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1141 (selection of titles/chapters).
1144 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1145 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1146 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1147 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1148 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1149 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1150 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1151 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1152 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1153 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1156 * G.726 audio support
1157 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1158 * MPEG-4 text support
1159 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1160 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1161 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1165 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1166 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1167 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1168 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1169 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1170 * DVB subtitles encoder
1171 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1172 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1174 * Text track muxing for mp4
1175 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1176 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1177 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1178 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1179 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1180 * Improved ASF muxer
1182 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1183 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1184 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1187 * New audio equalizer filter
1188 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1189 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1190 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1191 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1194 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1195 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1196 with support for effects.
1197 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1198 - New filters can be streamed.
1199 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1200 - Centralized scaling and blending
1202 - "time", to display current time
1203 - "marq", to display a marquee
1206 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1207 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1208 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1209 * A few skins2 improvements
1210 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1211 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1212 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1213 * Improved CORBA control module
1216 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1217 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1218 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1221 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1222 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1223 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1226 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1227 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1228 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1229 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1230 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1233 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1236 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1237 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1240 * Server/client network synchronization module
1241 * VBrick streams fully supported
1242 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1246 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1247 --------------------------------
1250 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1251 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1252 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1253 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1256 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1257 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1258 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1259 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1260 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1261 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1262 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1265 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1266 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1267 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1268 * Improved directory access module.
1269 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1270 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1271 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1272 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1273 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1276 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1277 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1278 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1281 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1282 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1283 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1286 * Improved session announcement system.
1287 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1288 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1289 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1290 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1291 * Improved transrater.
1292 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1293 * New configuration system.
1294 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1297 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1298 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1299 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1300 * Supports scheduling.
1301 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1302 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1305 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1306 - Ability to embed video output.
1307 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1308 - Lots of improvements.
1309 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1310 - New design and set of icons.
1311 - Ability to embed video output.
1312 - Support for hotkeys.
1313 - Support for bookmarks.
1315 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1316 - Better hotkeys handling.
1319 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1320 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1321 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1322 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1325 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1326 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1327 * Improved Windows installer.
1333 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1334 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1337 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1338 ---------------------------------
1341 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1342 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1345 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1346 --------------------------------
1349 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1350 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1353 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1354 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1355 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1356 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1359 * Internal improvments
1360 * Improved import/export
1363 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1365 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1366 small and strange formats.
1368 * New MOD audio demux.
1369 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1370 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1371 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1372 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1375 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1376 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1377 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1383 * New opengl video output plugin.
1386 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1387 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1390 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1391 --------------------------------
1394 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1395 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1396 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1397 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1398 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1399 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1400 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1401 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1404 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1409 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1410 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1411 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1412 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1413 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1414 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1415 * Better Icecast support.
1416 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1417 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1420 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1421 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1422 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1423 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1424 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1425 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1426 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1429 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1430 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1431 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1432 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1433 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1434 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1435 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1436 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1437 * Preliminary RTP support.
1438 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1443 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1444 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1446 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1447 - Improvements and help in preferences
1448 - New streaming wizard
1449 - Revised Disc Open menu
1451 - Improvements of the standard pages
1452 - Support for new commands
1453 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1456 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1457 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1460 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1461 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1462 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1463 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1464 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1465 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1466 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1467 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1468 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1471 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1473 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1474 * Support for Panther.
1475 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1476 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1479 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1480 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1481 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1482 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1483 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1484 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1485 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1486 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1489 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1490 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1491 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1494 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1497 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1498 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1499 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1500 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1503 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1504 --------------------------------
1507 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1510 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1511 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1514 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1515 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1518 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1521 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1522 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1525 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1528 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1531 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1532 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1536 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1537 --------------------------------
1540 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1541 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1545 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1546 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1547 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1549 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1550 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1553 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1556 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1559 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1560 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1564 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1565 --------------------------------
1568 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1569 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1573 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1574 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1575 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1576 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1577 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1580 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1581 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1582 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1585 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1586 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1587 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1590 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1591 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1592 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1593 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1594 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1597 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1598 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1599 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1602 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1605 * Improved build system.
1606 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1607 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1608 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1609 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1612 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1613 --------------------------------
1616 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1619 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1620 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1621 * Video 4 Linux support
1622 * CD Digital Audio support
1623 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1626 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1627 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1628 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1629 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1632 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1633 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1634 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1635 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1636 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1637 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1638 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1641 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1642 * New HTTP remote control interface
1645 * 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.
1646 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1647 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1648 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1651 * New reset option for the preferences
1652 * You can set your language in the prefences
1653 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1654 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1655 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1656 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1659 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1660 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1661 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1664 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1665 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1666 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1667 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1668 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1669 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1670 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1671 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1672 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1673 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1676 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1677 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1678 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1679 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1680 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1681 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1682 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1685 * Interface localization
1686 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1687 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1688 * New full-featured Preferences window
1691 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1692 --------------------------------
1695 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1696 * support for skins at the interface level
1697 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1698 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1699 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1700 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1701 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1704 * fixed HTTP redirects
1705 * support for opening an entire directory
1706 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1707 * new video4linux access plug-in
1708 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1711 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1712 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1713 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1716 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1717 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1718 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1719 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1720 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1721 * new codec for raw I420 video
1722 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1725 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1726 (although it still misses some important features)
1727 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1730 * new HTTP output support
1731 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1732 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1735 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1738 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1741 * reorderable playlist
1742 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1743 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1744 * support for mono audio output devices
1745 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1746 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1747 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1748 * the messages window remembers more lines
1749 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1750 * http and ogg stream output options
1751 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1754 * new skinnable interface
1755 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1757 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1758 * support for FLAC audio format
1759 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1761 * network tab in the interface
1762 * "apply" handling in preferences
1765 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1766 ---------------------------------
1769 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1770 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1771 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1772 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1774 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1775 * DTS S/PDIF support
1778 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1779 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1780 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1781 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1784 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1785 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1788 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1791 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1794 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1796 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1797 * rc interface is now fully useable
1798 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1801 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1802 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1803 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1804 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1805 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1807 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1808 * support for mouse gestures
1809 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1812 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1813 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1816 * improved ID3 tag detection
1817 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1818 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1819 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1821 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1824 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1825 ---------------------------------
1828 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1829 English was set as the preferred language
1832 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1833 --------------------------------
1836 * new mouse gesture interface
1837 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1841 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1842 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1843 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1846 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1847 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1851 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1854 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1855 without the user consent
1858 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1860 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1861 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1862 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1865 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1866 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1867 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1868 * playlist enhancements
1869 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1870 * new step forward/step backward commands
1871 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1872 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1873 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1876 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1877 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1878 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1881 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1882 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1885 * native video output is working again
1886 * only commandline interface support
1887 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1890 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1891 --------------------------------
1894 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1895 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1896 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1897 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1898 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1899 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1900 and A/52 streams are supported)
1901 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1906 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1907 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1908 * VCD entry points support
1909 * VCD image file support
1912 * support for *.asf format
1913 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1914 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1915 * support for ogg encapsulation
1916 * support for raw DV format
1917 * support for *.wav format
1918 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1921 Stream discovery & playlists:
1922 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1923 * support for .m3u file format
1924 * support for .asx file format
1925 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1928 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1929 (only available with the .avi demux)
1930 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1931 * support for raw PCM data
1932 * support for Cinepak video codec
1933 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1934 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1935 * support for Xvid codec
1936 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1937 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1938 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1940 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1942 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1945 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1948 * new WxWindows interface
1949 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1950 device and the channels configuration
1951 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1952 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1953 format that VLC can play
1954 * new swedish translation
1955 * enhancements of the playlist window
1956 * new messages window to see debug info
1957 * fixed a few crashes
1960 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1961 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1962 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1963 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working