3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
12 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
13 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
14 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
15 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
16 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
17 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
19 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
20 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
21 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
22 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
23 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
24 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
30 * Vastly improved playlist support:
31 * Media library support
33 * Shoutcast TV listings
34 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
35 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
36 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
39 * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
40 * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
41 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
42 * JACK audio input support
45 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
46 * MKV USF subtitles support
47 * HTML based subtitles support
48 * Flash Screen Video support
49 * CamStudio Screen Video support
50 * DosBox Capture support
51 * Karl Morton's Video support
52 * limited atrac3 support
53 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files (Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...)
56 * Flash Screen Video support
58 Video output and filters:
59 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
60 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
61 * New puzzle video output filter
62 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
63 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
65 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
66 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
67 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
69 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
70 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
71 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
72 was previously part of the mosaic module.
73 * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
76 * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
80 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
82 * Improved user interaction
83 * Improved mouse gestures
85 * Allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface (experimental).
86 * D-Bus Interface (experimental) implements the MPRIS
87 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
88 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
92 * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
99 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
100 ----------------------------------
102 Various bugfixes, notably:
103 * Windows Vista compatibility
104 * Cropping in Direct3D
105 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
106 * RSS filter string overflow
108 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
110 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
111 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702)
114 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
117 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
120 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
121 ----------------------------------
123 Various bugfixes, notably:
124 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
125 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
126 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
127 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
128 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
129 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
132 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
133 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
136 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
138 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
139 * Diverse usability improvements
140 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
141 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
142 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
145 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
146 ---------------------------------
149 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
152 * Fullscreen controller improvements
155 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
156 --------------------------------
159 * Shoutcast TV listings support
162 * Support for RTSP authentication
163 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
164 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
165 * ATSC support for DVB input
166 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
167 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
168 * Improved support for Flash Video files
171 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
172 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
173 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
174 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
175 * Matroska WavPack support
176 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
177 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
178 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
181 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
182 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
183 * Improved libcaca support
187 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
188 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
190 * Systray support in skins
192 * Support for Apple Remote control
193 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
194 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
195 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
196 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
198 * Notifications using notification-daemon
201 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
203 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
204 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
205 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
206 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
207 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
209 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
210 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
219 * Updates to the libvlc API
220 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
223 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
224 --------------------------------
227 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
228 * Support for downloading updates
232 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
233 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
234 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
235 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
237 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
238 * Improved subtitles encoding support
239 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
242 * Cook (Real audio) support
244 Playlist / Services discovery:
245 * XSPF playlist support
247 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
250 * New JACK audio output
254 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
255 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
256 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
257 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
258 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
259 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
262 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
265 * System to inform the user and request information
266 - HTTP authentication
270 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
271 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
272 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
275 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
276 - Improved playlist handling
277 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
279 - Embedded Video output
280 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
281 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
282 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
283 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
284 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
286 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
287 - A bunch of new RPN functions
290 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
293 * Mac-Intel compatibility
294 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
295 * Growl "Now playing" support
298 * Ability to log to syslog
299 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
302 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
304 * A bit more automatic testing
307 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
308 ---------------------------------
311 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
312 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
315 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
316 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
319 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
322 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
323 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
329 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
332 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
333 --------------------------------
336 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
340 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
341 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
342 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
345 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
346 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
347 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
348 * GnomeVFS input module
349 * Support for RTP packet reordering
350 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
353 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
354 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
355 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
358 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
359 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
365 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
366 Mixer and Dolby Surround
369 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
370 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
371 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
374 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
376 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
377 - New extended controls panel
378 - New bookmarks window
379 - Fixed playlist sorting
380 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
382 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
383 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
384 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
385 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
389 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
390 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
392 - Include macro to include other files
396 * Should now work outside IE as well
399 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
402 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
403 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
406 The following languages were added:
411 The following languages were re-added:
415 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
416 --------------------------------
419 * Rewrite of the playlist
421 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
422 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
423 * Preferences improvements:
424 - New organization, designed to improve usability
425 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
427 * Core image manipulation support
428 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
429 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
430 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
431 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
432 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
433 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
434 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
435 now separated by ':' instead of ','
436 * Access filter architecture
437 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
438 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
442 * Support for SOCKS proxy
443 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
444 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
445 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
446 * Better support for Kasenna streams
447 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
448 * Massive Matroska improvements
449 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
451 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
452 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
453 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
454 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
455 * Support for FTP over IPv6
458 * Dirac decoder and encoder
459 * PNG decoder/encoder
460 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
461 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
464 * New Record and Timeshift filters
467 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
468 * Brand new SAP module
469 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
470 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
471 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
472 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
473 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
474 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
478 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
481 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
482 * Image file video output (png)
483 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
484 * Improvements to wall video filter
485 * Support for font color and opacity
491 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
492 - Seeking support in VoD streams
493 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
497 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
498 - Improved preferences
499 - Improvements to the wizard
500 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
502 - Redesigned playlist
503 - Improved preferences
505 - Support for multiple actions
508 - Support for the new playlist system
510 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
513 * Screensaver disabling fix
514 * DirectShow tuner configuration
515 * Support for no-decoration windows
518 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
519 * The OpenGL video output is back
520 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
521 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
522 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
523 is not yet available in the new module
524 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
527 * Support for single-buffered overlay
536 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
539 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
542 The following languages were added:
548 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
549 --------------------------------
552 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
553 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
556 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
557 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
558 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
561 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
564 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
567 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
570 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
571 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
572 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
576 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
578 * Support of playlist group announcement
581 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
582 --------------------------------
585 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
586 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
587 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
588 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
589 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
590 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
593 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
594 (Stream your desktop)
595 * Improved DVD support:
596 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
597 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
598 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
599 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
600 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
601 (selection of titles/chapters).
604 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
605 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
606 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
607 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
608 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
609 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
610 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
611 * Improved Ogg demuxer
612 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
613 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
616 * G.726 audio support
617 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
618 * MPEG-4 text support
619 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
620 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
621 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
625 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
626 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
627 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
628 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
629 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
630 * DVB subtitles encoder
631 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
632 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
634 * Text track muxing for mp4
635 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
636 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
637 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
638 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
639 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
642 * H.263 RTP streaming support
643 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
644 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
647 * New audio equalizer filter
648 * Very trivial volume normalizer
649 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
650 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
651 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
654 * Roku HD1000 Video output
655 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
656 with support for effects.
657 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
658 - New filters can be streamed.
659 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
660 - Centralized scaling and blending
662 - "time", to display current time
663 - "marq", to display a marquee
666 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
667 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
668 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
669 * A few skins2 improvements
670 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
671 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
672 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
673 * Improved CORBA control module
676 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
677 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
678 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
681 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
682 * Experimental SVG rendering module
683 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
686 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
687 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
688 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
689 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
690 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
693 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
696 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
697 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
700 * Server/client network synchronization module
701 * VBrick streams fully supported
702 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
706 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
707 --------------------------------
710 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
711 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
712 * Improved HTTP daemon.
713 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
716 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
717 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
718 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
719 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
720 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
721 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
722 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
725 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
726 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
727 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
728 * Improved directory access module.
729 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
730 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
731 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
732 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
733 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
736 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
737 * mmsh streaming fixes.
738 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
741 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
742 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
743 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
746 * Improved session announcement system.
747 * Minimize threads usage by default.
748 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
749 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
750 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
751 * Improved transrater.
752 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
753 * New configuration system.
754 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
757 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
758 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
759 * Supports live streams and VoD.
760 * Supports scheduling.
761 * Telnet interface for vlm.
762 * HTTP interface for vlm.
765 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
766 - Ability to embed video output.
767 - Support for bitmap fonts.
768 - Lots of improvements.
769 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
770 - New design and set of icons.
771 - Ability to embed video output.
772 - Support for hotkeys.
773 - Support for bookmarks.
775 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
776 - Better hotkeys handling.
779 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
780 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
781 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
782 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
785 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
786 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
787 * Improved Windows installer.
793 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
794 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
797 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
798 ---------------------------------
801 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
802 * Playing MOD files is working now.
805 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
806 --------------------------------
809 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
810 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
813 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
814 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
815 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
816 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
819 * Internal improvments
820 * Improved import/export
823 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
825 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
826 small and strange formats.
828 * New MOD audio demux.
829 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
830 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
831 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
832 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
835 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
836 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
837 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
843 * New opengl video output plugin.
846 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
847 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
850 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
851 --------------------------------
854 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
855 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
856 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
857 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
858 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
859 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
860 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
861 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
864 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
869 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
870 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
871 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
872 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
873 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
874 * Reworked DVB tuning.
875 * Better Icecast support.
876 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
877 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
880 * Support for Theora video encoding.
881 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
882 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
883 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
884 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
885 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
886 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
889 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
890 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
891 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
892 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
893 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
894 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
895 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
896 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
897 * Preliminary RTP support.
898 * Fixes to SAP announces.
903 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
904 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
906 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
907 - Improvements and help in preferences
908 - New streaming wizard
909 - Revised Disc Open menu
911 - Improvements of the standard pages
912 - Support for new commands
913 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
916 * Many fixes to the SAP module
917 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
920 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
921 * Text subtitles autodetection.
922 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
923 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
924 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
925 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
926 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
927 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
928 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
931 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
933 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
934 * Support for Panther.
935 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
936 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
939 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
940 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
941 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
942 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
943 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
944 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
945 * Multimonitor support (untested).
946 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
949 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
950 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
951 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
954 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
957 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
958 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
959 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
960 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
963 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
964 --------------------------------
967 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
970 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
971 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
974 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
975 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
978 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
981 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
982 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
985 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
988 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
991 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
992 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
996 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
997 --------------------------------
1000 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1001 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1005 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1006 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1007 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1009 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1010 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1013 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1016 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1019 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1020 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1024 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1025 --------------------------------
1028 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1029 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1033 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1034 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1035 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1036 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1037 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1040 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1041 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1042 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1045 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1046 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1047 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1050 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1051 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1052 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1053 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1054 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1057 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1058 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1059 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1062 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1065 * Improved build system.
1066 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1067 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1068 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1069 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1072 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1073 --------------------------------
1076 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1079 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1080 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1081 * Video 4 Linux support
1082 * CD Digital Audio support
1083 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1086 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1087 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1088 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1089 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1092 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1093 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1094 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1095 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1096 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1097 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1098 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1101 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1102 * New HTTP remote control interface
1105 * 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.
1106 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1107 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1108 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1111 * New reset option for the preferences
1112 * You can set your language in the prefences
1113 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1114 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1115 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1116 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1119 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1120 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1121 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1124 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1125 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1126 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1127 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1128 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1129 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1130 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1131 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1132 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1133 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1136 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1137 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1138 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1139 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1140 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1141 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1142 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1145 * Interface localization
1146 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1147 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1148 * New full-featured Preferences window
1151 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1152 --------------------------------
1155 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1156 * support for skins at the interface level
1157 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1158 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1159 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1160 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1161 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1164 * fixed HTTP redirects
1165 * support for opening an entire directory
1166 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1167 * new video4linux access plug-in
1168 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1171 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1172 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1173 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1176 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1177 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1178 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1179 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1180 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1181 * new codec for raw I420 video
1182 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1185 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1186 (although it still misses some important features)
1187 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1190 * new HTTP output support
1191 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1192 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1195 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1198 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1201 * reorderable playlist
1202 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1203 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1204 * support for mono audio output devices
1205 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1206 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1207 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1208 * the messages window remembers more lines
1209 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1210 * http and ogg stream output options
1211 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1214 * new skinnable interface
1215 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1217 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1218 * support for FLAC audio format
1219 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1221 * network tab in the interface
1222 * "apply" handling in preferences
1225 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1226 ---------------------------------
1229 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1230 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1231 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1232 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1234 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1235 * DTS S/PDIF support
1238 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1239 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1240 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1241 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1244 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1245 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1248 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1251 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1254 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1256 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1257 * rc interface is now fully useable
1258 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1261 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1262 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1263 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1264 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1265 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1267 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1268 * support for mouse gestures
1269 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1272 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1273 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1276 * improved ID3 tag detection
1277 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1278 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1279 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1281 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1284 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1285 ---------------------------------
1288 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1289 English was set as the preferred language
1292 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1293 --------------------------------
1296 * new mouse gesture interface
1297 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1301 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1302 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1303 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1306 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1307 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1311 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1314 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1315 without the user consent
1318 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1320 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1321 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1322 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1325 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1326 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1327 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1328 * playlist enhancements
1329 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1330 * new step forward/step backward commands
1331 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1332 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1333 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1336 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1337 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1338 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1341 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1342 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1345 * native video output is working again
1346 * only commandline interface support
1347 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1350 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1351 --------------------------------
1354 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1355 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1356 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1357 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1358 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1359 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1360 and A/52 streams are supported)
1361 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1366 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1367 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1368 * VCD entry points support
1369 * VCD image file support
1372 * support for *.asf format
1373 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1374 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1375 * support for ogg encapsulation
1376 * support for raw DV format
1377 * support for *.wav format
1378 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1381 Stream discovery & playlists:
1382 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1383 * support for .m3u file format
1384 * support for .asx file format
1385 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1388 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1389 (only available with the .avi demux)
1390 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1391 * support for raw PCM data
1392 * support for Cinepak video codec
1393 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1394 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1395 * support for Xvid codec
1396 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1397 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1398 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1400 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1402 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1405 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1408 * new WxWindows interface
1409 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1410 device and the channels configuration
1411 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1412 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1413 format that VLC can play
1414 * new swedish translation
1415 * enhancements of the playlist window
1416 * new messages window to see debug info
1417 * fixed a few crashes
1420 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1421 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1422 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1423 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working