1 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
3 Important changes for users:
5 Important changes for packagers:
6 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
7 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
8 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
9 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
10 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
14 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
15 * Support for the sftp protocol
16 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
17 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
18 * New memory input (imem) module to feed VLC from data in memory
19 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams
22 * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
23 * PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
24 * Invmem module improvements
25 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
26 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities
27 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
28 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
29 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
30 * Audio/Video decoder using OpenMAX IL components
31 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
34 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
35 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
36 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
37 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
38 * Various EGP improvements
39 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
42 * WPL playlist support
43 * ZPL playlist support
44 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
45 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
46 * Podcast images are now displayed
49 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
50 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
51 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
52 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
53 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
54 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
55 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
56 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
57 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
58 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
59 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
62 * new content extensions lua framework
66 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
67 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
68 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
69 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
70 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
71 * NEON assembly audio converter module
72 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
75 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
78 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
79 * Service discovery based on libudev
82 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
83 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
84 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
85 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
86 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
87 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
90 * New smem module, streaming to memory
91 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
92 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
95 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
97 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
100 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
101 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
102 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
103 by Andy Matuschak et al.
104 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
105 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
108 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
109 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
112 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
113 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
114 * Improvements to the maemo interface
118 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
119 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
122 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
125 * csri codec. Use the libass module instead.
126 * galaktos. Use the new projectM module instead.
127 * showintf. Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
129 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use the new XCB modules instead.
130 * HAL. Use libudev instead.
131 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
132 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
133 * opie, qte and qte_main
134 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed. Use the ugly one.
135 * XvMC accelerated modules. Use VAAPI instead.
136 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux. Use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
137 * opengllayer. Use macosx_video instead.
138 * cddax. Use cdda instead.
139 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
140 * realaudio codecs are removed in favor of libavcodec
141 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
144 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
145 --------------------------------
148 * SubRip extra styles improvements
149 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
152 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
155 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
156 increase performance and fix x264 issues
159 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
160 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
161 Russian, Slovak translation updates
162 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
165 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
166 --------------------------------
169 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
170 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
173 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
174 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
177 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
178 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
181 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
184 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
185 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
188 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
189 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
192 * New Walloon translation
193 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
196 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
197 --------------------------------
200 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
201 regressions in most popular drivers
202 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
205 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
206 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
207 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
210 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
211 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
214 * Update for appletrailers lua script
215 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
216 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
217 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
218 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
221 * New udev module for linux
224 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
227 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
230 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
231 --------------------------------
234 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
235 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
236 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
239 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
240 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
243 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
244 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
247 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
250 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
251 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
252 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
253 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
256 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
257 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
258 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
259 - no support for Goom and SDL
260 - limited text rendering support
261 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
264 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
265 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
266 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
267 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
268 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
269 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
270 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
271 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
272 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
276 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
279 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
282 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
283 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
284 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
285 Arabic and French translation updates
288 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
289 --------------------------------
292 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
293 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
294 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
295 * Fix Dailymotion access script
296 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
297 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
300 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
301 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
304 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
305 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
306 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
309 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
312 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
313 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
316 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
317 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
318 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
319 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
320 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
321 * Fix various crashes
324 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
326 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
329 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
330 ---------------------------------
334 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
335 See 'Access:' for more info.
336 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
339 * Instantaneous pausing
340 * Frame-by-Frame playback
341 * Finer speed control
342 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
343 * Timeshift for most medias
344 * RTSP trickplay support
345 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
348 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
349 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
350 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
351 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
352 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
353 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
354 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
355 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
356 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
357 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
360 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
361 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
362 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
363 * Metadata for mod files are supported
364 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
365 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
366 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
369 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
370 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
373 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
374 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
375 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
376 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
377 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
378 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
379 * DVB scanning on linux
380 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
381 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
382 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
383 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
384 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
385 * MTP device access on Unix
386 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
387 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
390 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
391 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
392 Windows and Mac OS X.
395 * Export the playlist in HTML
396 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
397 * Better metadata handling and reading
399 Linux/Windows interface:
400 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
401 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
402 * Recently played items list
403 * Interface toolbar customizations
404 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
407 - Improvements on many dialogs
408 - New dialog for plugins listing
409 - Fixed-size mode for videos
410 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
411 * Better integration in GTK environments
414 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
415 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
416 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
417 * Additional usability improvements
420 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
421 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
422 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
423 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
424 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
427 * New Maemo port with:
428 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
429 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
432 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
435 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
436 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
437 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
438 * Support for latest iSight models
441 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
442 * Surround support for PulseAudio
445 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
446 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
447 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
448 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
449 The old image video output has been removed.
450 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
451 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
454 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
462 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
463 --------------------------------------
469 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
470 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
471 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
472 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
473 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
474 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
475 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
477 Various fixes to the following modules:
480 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
481 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
484 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
489 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
490 ---------------------------------
493 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
494 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
497 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
498 ---------------------------------
501 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
504 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
507 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
508 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
509 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
510 main controller window.
511 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
514 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
519 * Updates of other localizations
522 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
523 * Lots of small bugfixes.
524 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
525 * Telnet fixes on Windows
526 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
529 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
530 ---------------------------------
533 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
535 Bunch of small bugfixes.
538 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
539 --------------------------------
544 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
545 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
548 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
549 --------------------------------
551 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
552 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
555 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
558 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
559 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
562 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
563 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
566 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
567 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
568 * Various fixed in playlist
571 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
574 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
577 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
578 ------------------------------------
580 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
581 * Fixes several memory leaks.
584 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
585 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
586 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
589 * Stability fix for the video output.
592 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
593 --------------------------------
596 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
597 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
598 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
599 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
600 * Fixed update system bugs
601 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
604 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
605 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
606 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
607 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
608 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
609 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
610 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
611 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
612 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
613 modern Mac OS X versions
616 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
617 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
619 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
620 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
623 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
624 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
625 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
626 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
627 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
628 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
631 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
632 --------------------------------
634 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
635 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
639 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
640 --------------------------------
642 * Multiple bug fixes.
645 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
646 ---------------------------------
650 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
651 recent to work correctly
652 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
653 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
654 edit the ".hosts" file.
655 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
656 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
657 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
658 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
659 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
660 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
661 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
662 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
663 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
664 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
665 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
666 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
667 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
668 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
669 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
670 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
671 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
672 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
673 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
674 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
675 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
676 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
677 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
678 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
679 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
680 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
681 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
682 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
683 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
684 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
685 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
686 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
687 and postproc modules.
688 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
689 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
690 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
691 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
693 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
695 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
696 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
698 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
699 * Glide video output module has been removed.
705 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
707 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
708 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
711 * Vastly improved playlist support:
712 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
714 * Shoutcast TV listings
715 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
717 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
718 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
720 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
723 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
724 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
725 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
726 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
727 * JACK audio input support
728 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
729 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
730 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
731 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
732 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
733 * Experimental EyeTV access module
734 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
735 (available as a separate download).
736 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
738 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
739 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
740 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
742 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
743 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
746 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
747 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
748 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
749 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
751 * APEv1/2 tags support
752 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
753 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
755 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
756 * TiVo Series 2 support
757 * CD+G karaoke Files support
762 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
763 * Flash Screen Video support
764 * CamStudio Screen Video support
765 * DosBox Capture support
766 * Karl Morton's Video support
767 * limited atrac3 support
769 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
770 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
771 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
773 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
774 * NellyMoser ASAO support
775 * APE (Monkey audio) support
776 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
777 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
780 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
781 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
782 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
783 * AQTitle subtitles support
784 * MKV USF subtitles support
785 * HTML-based subtitles support
786 * MPSub subtitles support
787 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
788 * MPL2 subtitles support
789 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
790 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
791 * Realtext subtitle support
792 * DKS subtitle support
793 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
794 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
797 * Flash Screen Video support
798 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
800 Video outputs and filters:
801 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
802 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
803 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
804 * New puzzle video output filter
805 * Re-written motion detection video filter
806 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
808 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
809 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
810 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
811 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
812 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
813 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
814 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
815 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
816 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
817 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
818 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
819 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
820 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
821 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
823 Audio outputs and filters:
824 * Replay gain support
825 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
826 new scaletempo audio filter)
827 * New spatializer audio filter
828 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
831 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
832 * New RTP payload formats:
833 * Speex voice audio codec
834 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
835 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
836 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
837 * DCCP transport for RTP
838 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
843 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
844 end-user suitable way.
845 * Improved user interaction
846 * Improved mouse gestures
847 * Vastly improved Update checker
848 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
850 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
851 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
853 * Improved video output features
854 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
855 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
856 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
857 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
858 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
860 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
861 if libncursesw is available.
862 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
863 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
864 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
866 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
867 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
868 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
869 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
870 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
871 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
872 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
873 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
876 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
877 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
878 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
881 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
882 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
883 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
884 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
885 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
886 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
889 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
890 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
900 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
901 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
902 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
905 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
906 ----------------------------------
909 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
912 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
913 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
914 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
915 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
916 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
917 * Updated Polish translation
920 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
921 ----------------------------------
924 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
925 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
926 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
929 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
930 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
931 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
932 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
933 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
934 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
935 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
936 to an unexpected application termination
937 * New Serbian translation
938 * Updated Romanian translation
941 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
942 ----------------------------------
945 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
946 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
947 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
948 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
949 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
950 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
951 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
952 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
955 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
956 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
957 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
958 * Fixed AAC resampling
959 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
960 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
963 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
964 ----------------------------------
967 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
968 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
969 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
970 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
971 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
974 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
975 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
976 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
977 * Close MMS access on network timeout
978 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
981 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
982 ----------------------------------
985 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
986 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
989 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
990 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
991 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
992 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
994 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
998 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1001 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1004 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1007 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1010 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1011 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1012 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1013 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1014 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1016 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1017 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1018 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1019 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1022 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1025 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1026 ----------------------------------
1029 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1030 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1031 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1033 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1034 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1036 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1037 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1040 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1042 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1043 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1044 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1045 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1046 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1047 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1048 two different movies
1049 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1050 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1051 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1054 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1057 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1058 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1059 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1060 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1063 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1064 ----------------------------------
1066 Various bugfixes, notably:
1067 * Windows Vista compatibility
1068 * Cropping in Direct3D
1069 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1070 * RSS filter string overflow
1072 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1074 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1075 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1078 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1079 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1082 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1085 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1088 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1091 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1092 ----------------------------------
1094 Various bugfixes, notably:
1095 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1096 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1097 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1098 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1099 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1100 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1103 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1104 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1107 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1109 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1110 * Diverse usability improvements
1111 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1112 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1113 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1116 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1117 ---------------------------------
1119 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1120 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1123 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1126 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1127 --------------------------------
1130 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1133 * Support for RTSP authentication
1134 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1135 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1136 * ATSC support for DVB input
1137 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1138 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1139 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1142 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1143 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1144 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1145 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1146 * Matroska WavPack support
1147 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1148 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1149 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1152 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1153 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1154 * Improved libcaca support
1158 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1159 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1161 * Systray support in skins
1163 * Support for Apple Remote control
1164 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1165 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1166 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1167 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1169 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1172 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1173 Windows 9x/ME users:
1174 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1175 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1176 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1177 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1178 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1180 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1181 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1190 * Updates to the libvlc API
1191 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1194 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1195 --------------------------------
1198 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1199 * Support for downloading updates
1203 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1204 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1205 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1206 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1208 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1209 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1210 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1213 * Cook (Real audio) support
1215 Playlist / Services discovery:
1216 * XSPF playlist support
1218 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1221 * New JACK audio output
1224 * New video filters:
1225 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1226 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1227 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1228 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1229 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1230 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1233 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1236 * System to inform the user and request information
1237 - HTTP authentication
1241 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1242 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1243 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1246 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1247 - Improved playlist handling
1248 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1250 - Embedded Video output
1251 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1252 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1253 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1254 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1255 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1257 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1258 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1261 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1264 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1265 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1266 * Growl "Now playing" support
1269 * Ability to log to syslog
1270 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1273 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1275 * A bit more automatic testing
1278 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1279 ---------------------------------
1282 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1283 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1286 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1287 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1290 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1293 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1294 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1300 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1303 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1304 --------------------------------
1307 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1311 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1312 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1313 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1316 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1317 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1318 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1319 * GnomeVFS input module
1320 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1321 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1324 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1325 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1326 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1329 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1330 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1336 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1337 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1340 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1341 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1342 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1345 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1347 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1348 - New extended controls panel
1349 - New bookmarks window
1350 - Fixed playlist sorting
1351 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1353 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1354 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1355 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1356 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1360 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1361 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1363 - Include macro to include other files
1367 * Should now work outside IE as well
1370 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1373 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1374 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1377 The following languages were added:
1381 * Simplified Chinese
1382 The following languages were re-added:
1386 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1387 --------------------------------
1390 * Rewrite of the playlist
1392 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1393 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1394 * Preferences improvements:
1395 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1396 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1398 * Core image manipulation support
1399 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1400 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1401 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1402 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1403 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1404 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1405 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1406 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1407 * Access filter architecture
1408 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1409 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1413 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1414 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1415 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1416 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1417 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1418 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1419 * Massive Matroska improvements
1420 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1422 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1423 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1424 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1425 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1426 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1428 Decoders / Encoders:
1429 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1430 * PNG decoder/encoder
1431 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1432 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1435 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1438 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1439 * Brand new SAP module
1440 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1441 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1442 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1443 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1444 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1445 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1449 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1452 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1453 * Image file video output (png)
1454 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1455 * Improvements to wall video filter
1456 * Support for font color and opacity
1462 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1463 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1464 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1468 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1469 - Improved preferences
1470 - Improvements to the wizard
1471 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1473 - Redesigned playlist
1474 - Improved preferences
1476 - Support for multiple actions
1479 - Support for the new playlist system
1481 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1484 * Screensaver disabling fix
1485 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1486 * Support for no-decoration windows
1489 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1490 * The OpenGL video output is back
1491 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1492 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1493 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1494 is not yet available in the new module
1495 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1498 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1507 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1510 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1513 The following languages were added:
1519 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1520 --------------------------------
1523 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1524 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1527 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1528 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1529 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1532 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1535 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1538 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1541 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1542 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1543 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1547 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1549 * Support of playlist group announcement
1552 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1553 --------------------------------
1556 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1557 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1558 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1559 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1560 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1561 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1564 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1565 (Stream your desktop)
1566 * Improved DVD support:
1567 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1568 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1569 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1570 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1571 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1572 (selection of titles/chapters).
1575 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1576 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1577 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1578 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1579 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1580 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1581 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1582 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1583 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1584 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1587 * G.726 audio support
1588 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1589 * MPEG-4 text support
1590 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1591 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1592 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1596 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1597 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1598 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1599 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1600 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1601 * DVB subtitles encoder
1602 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1603 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1605 * Text track muxing for mp4
1606 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1607 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1608 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1609 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1610 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1611 * Improved ASF muxer
1613 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1614 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1615 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1618 * New audio equalizer filter
1619 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1620 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1621 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1622 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1625 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1626 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1627 with support for effects.
1628 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1629 - New filters can be streamed.
1630 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1631 - Centralized scaling and blending
1633 - "time", to display current time
1634 - "marq", to display a marquee
1637 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1638 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1639 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1640 * A few skins2 improvements
1641 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1642 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1643 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1644 * Improved CORBA control module
1647 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1648 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1649 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1652 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1653 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1654 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1657 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1658 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1659 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1660 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1661 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1664 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1667 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1668 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1671 * Server/client network synchronization module
1672 * VBrick streams fully supported
1673 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1677 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1678 --------------------------------
1681 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1682 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1683 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1684 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1687 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1688 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1689 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1690 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1691 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1692 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1693 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1696 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1697 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1698 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1699 * Improved directory access module.
1700 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1701 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1702 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1703 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1704 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1707 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1708 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1709 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1712 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1713 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1714 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1717 * Improved session announcement system.
1718 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1719 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1720 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1721 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1722 * Improved transrater.
1723 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1724 * New configuration system.
1725 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1728 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1729 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1730 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1731 * Supports scheduling.
1732 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1733 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1736 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1737 - Ability to embed video output.
1738 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1739 - Lots of improvements.
1740 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1741 - New design and set of icons.
1742 - Ability to embed video output.
1743 - Support for hotkeys.
1744 - Support for bookmarks.
1746 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1747 - Better hotkeys handling.
1750 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1751 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1752 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1753 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1756 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1757 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1758 * Improved Windows installer.
1764 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1765 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1768 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1769 ---------------------------------
1772 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1773 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1776 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1777 --------------------------------
1780 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1781 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1784 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1785 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1786 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1787 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1790 * Internal improvments
1791 * Improved import/export
1794 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1796 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1797 small and strange formats.
1799 * New MOD audio demux.
1800 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1801 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1802 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1803 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1806 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1807 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1808 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1814 * New opengl video output plugin.
1817 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1818 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1821 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1822 --------------------------------
1825 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1826 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1827 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1828 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1829 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1830 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1831 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1832 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1835 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1840 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1841 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1842 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1843 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1844 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1845 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1846 * Better Icecast support.
1847 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1848 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1851 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1852 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1853 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1854 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1855 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1856 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1857 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1860 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1861 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1862 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1863 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1864 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1865 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1866 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1867 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1868 * Preliminary RTP support.
1869 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1874 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1875 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1877 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1878 - Improvements and help in preferences
1879 - New streaming wizard
1880 - Revised Disc Open menu
1882 - Improvements of the standard pages
1883 - Support for new commands
1884 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1887 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1888 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1891 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1892 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1893 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1894 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1895 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1896 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1897 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1898 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1899 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1902 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1904 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1905 * Support for Panther.
1906 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1907 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1910 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1911 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1912 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1913 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1914 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1915 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1916 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1917 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1920 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1921 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1922 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1925 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1928 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1929 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1930 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1931 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1934 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1935 --------------------------------
1938 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1941 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1942 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1945 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1946 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1949 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1952 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1953 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1956 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1959 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1962 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1963 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1967 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1968 --------------------------------
1971 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1972 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1976 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1977 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1978 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1980 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1981 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1984 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1987 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1990 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1991 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1995 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1996 --------------------------------
1999 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2000 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2004 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2005 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2006 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2007 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2008 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2011 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2012 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2013 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2016 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2017 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2018 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2021 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2022 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2023 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2024 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2025 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2028 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2029 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2030 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2033 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2036 * Improved build system.
2037 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2038 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2039 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2040 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2043 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2044 --------------------------------
2047 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2050 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2051 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2052 * Video 4 Linux support
2053 * CD Digital Audio support
2054 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2057 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2058 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2059 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2060 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2063 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2064 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2065 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2066 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2067 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2068 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2069 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2072 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2073 * New HTTP remote control interface
2076 * 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.
2077 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2078 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2079 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2082 * New reset option for the preferences
2083 * You can set your language in the prefences
2084 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2085 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2086 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2087 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2090 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2091 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2092 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2095 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2096 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2097 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2098 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2099 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2100 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2101 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2102 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2103 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2104 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2107 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2108 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2109 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2110 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2111 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2112 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2113 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2116 * Interface localization
2117 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2118 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2119 * New full-featured Preferences window
2122 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2123 --------------------------------
2126 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2127 * support for skins at the interface level
2128 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2129 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2130 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2131 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2132 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2135 * fixed HTTP redirects
2136 * support for opening an entire directory
2137 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2138 * new video4linux access plug-in
2139 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2142 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2143 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2144 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2147 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2148 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2149 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2150 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2151 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2152 * new codec for raw I420 video
2153 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2156 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2157 (although it still misses some important features)
2158 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2161 * new HTTP output support
2162 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2163 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2166 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2169 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2172 * reorderable playlist
2173 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2174 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2175 * support for mono audio output devices
2176 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2177 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2178 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2179 * the messages window remembers more lines
2180 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2181 * http and ogg stream output options
2182 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2185 * new skinnable interface
2186 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2188 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2189 * support for FLAC audio format
2190 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2192 * network tab in the interface
2193 * "apply" handling in preferences
2196 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2197 ---------------------------------
2200 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2201 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2202 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2203 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2205 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2206 * DTS S/PDIF support
2209 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2210 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2211 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2212 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2215 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2216 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2219 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2222 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2225 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2227 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2228 * rc interface is now fully useable
2229 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2232 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2233 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2234 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2235 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2236 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2238 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2239 * support for mouse gestures
2240 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2243 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2244 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2247 * improved ID3 tag detection
2248 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2249 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2250 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2252 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2255 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2256 ---------------------------------
2259 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2260 English was set as the preferred language
2263 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2264 --------------------------------
2267 * new mouse gesture interface
2268 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2272 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2273 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2274 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2277 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2278 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2282 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2285 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2286 without the user consent
2289 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2291 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2292 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2293 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2296 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2297 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2298 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2299 * playlist enhancements
2300 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2301 * new step forward/step backward commands
2302 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2303 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2304 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2307 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2308 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2309 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2312 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2313 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2316 * native video output is working again
2317 * only commandline interface support
2318 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2321 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2322 --------------------------------
2325 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2326 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2327 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2328 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2329 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2330 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2331 and A/52 streams are supported)
2332 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2337 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2338 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2339 * VCD entry points support
2340 * VCD image file support
2343 * support for *.asf format
2344 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2345 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2346 * support for ogg encapsulation
2347 * support for raw DV format
2348 * support for *.wav format
2349 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2352 Stream discovery & playlists:
2353 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2354 * support for .m3u file format
2355 * support for .asx file format
2356 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2359 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2360 (only available with the .avi demux)
2361 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2362 * support for raw PCM data
2363 * support for Cinepak video codec
2364 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2365 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2366 * support for Xvid codec
2367 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2368 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2369 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2371 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2373 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2376 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2379 * new WxWindows interface
2380 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2381 device and the channels configuration
2382 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2383 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2384 format that VLC can play
2385 * new swedish translation
2386 * enhancements of the playlist window
2387 * new messages window to see debug info
2388 * fixed a few crashes
2391 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2392 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2393 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2394 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working