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.
25 * Vastly improved playlist support:
26 * Media library support
28 * Shoutcast TV listings
29 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
32 * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
33 * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
36 * VP60/VP61 codecs support
37 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
40 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splitted into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
41 and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
42 * New puzzle video output filter
43 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
44 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a video)
45 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
48 * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
52 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
54 * Improved user interaction
57 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6-bugfix (not yet released):
58 -----------------------------------------------------------
59 Various bugfixes notably:
60 * out-of-bound read in demuxers
61 * demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
62 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
65 * further usability improvements
68 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
69 ---------------------------------
72 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
75 * Fullscreen controller improvements
78 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
79 --------------------------------
82 * Shoutcast TV listings support
85 * Support for RTSP authentication
86 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
87 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
88 * ATSC support for DVB input
89 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
90 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
91 * Improved support for Flash Video files
94 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
95 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
96 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
97 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
98 * Matroska WavPack support
99 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
100 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
101 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
104 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
105 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
106 * Improved libcaca support
110 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
111 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
113 * Systray support in skins
115 * Support for Apple Remote control
116 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
117 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
118 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
119 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
121 * Notifications using notification-daemon
124 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
126 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
127 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
128 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
129 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
130 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
132 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
133 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
142 * Updates to the libvlc API
143 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
147 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
148 ---------------------------------
151 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
152 * Support for downloading updates
156 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
157 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
158 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
159 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
161 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
162 * Improved subtitles encoding support
163 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
166 * Cook (Real audio) support
168 Playlist / Services discovery:
169 * XSPF playlist support
171 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
174 * New JACK audio output
178 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
179 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
180 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
181 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
182 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
183 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
186 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
189 * System to inform the user and request information
190 - HTTP authentication
194 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
195 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
196 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
199 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
200 - Improved playlist handling
201 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
203 - Embedded Video output
204 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
205 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
206 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
207 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
208 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
210 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
211 - A bunch of new RPN functions
214 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
217 * Mac-Intel compatibility
218 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
219 * Growl "Now playing" support
222 * Ability to log to syslog
223 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
226 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
228 * A bit more automatic testing
230 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
231 ---------------------------------
234 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
235 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
238 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
239 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
242 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
245 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
246 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
252 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
254 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
255 --------------------------------
258 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
262 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
263 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
264 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
267 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
268 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
269 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
270 * GnomeVFS input module
271 * Support for RTP packet reordering
272 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
275 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
276 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
277 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
280 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
281 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
287 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
288 Mixer and Dolby Surround
291 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
292 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
293 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
296 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
298 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
299 - New extended controls panel
300 - New bookmarks window
301 - Fixed playlist sorting
302 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
304 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
305 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
306 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
307 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
311 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
312 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
314 - Include macro to include other files
318 * Should now work outside IE as well
321 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
324 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
325 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
328 The following languages were added:
333 The following languages were re-added:
336 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
337 --------------------------------
340 * Rewrite of the playlist
342 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
343 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
344 * Preferences improvements:
345 - New organization, designed to improve usability
346 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
348 * Core image manipulation support
349 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
350 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
351 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
352 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
353 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
354 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
355 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
356 now separated by ':' instead of ','
357 * Access filter architecture
358 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
359 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
363 * Support for SOCKS proxy
364 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
365 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
366 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
367 * Better support for Kasenna streams
368 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
369 * Massive Matroska improvements
370 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
372 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
373 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
374 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
375 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
376 * Support for FTP over IPv6
379 * Dirac decoder and encoder
380 * PNG decoder/encoder
381 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
382 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
385 * New Record and Timeshift filters
388 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
389 * Brand new SAP module
390 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
391 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
392 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
393 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
394 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
395 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
399 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
402 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
403 * Image file video output (png)
404 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
405 * Improvements to wall video filter
406 * Support for font color and opacity
412 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
413 - Seeking support in VoD streams
414 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
418 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
419 - Improved preferences
420 - Improvements to the wizard
421 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
423 - Redesigned playlist
424 - Improved preferences
426 - Support for multiple actions
429 - Support for the new playlist system
431 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
434 * Screensaver disabling fix
435 * DirectShow tuner configuration
436 * Support for no-decoration windows
439 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
440 * The OpenGL video output is back
441 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
442 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
443 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
444 is not yet available in the new module
445 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
448 * Support for single-buffered overlay
457 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
460 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
463 The following languages were added:
469 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
470 -----------------------------------------------------
473 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
474 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
477 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
478 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
479 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
482 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
485 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
488 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
491 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
492 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
493 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
497 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
499 * Support of playlist group announcement
501 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
502 -----------------------------------------------------
505 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
506 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
507 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
508 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
509 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
510 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
513 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
514 (Stream your desktop)
515 * Improved DVD support:
516 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
517 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
518 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
519 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
520 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
521 (selection of titles/chapters).
524 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
525 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
526 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
527 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
528 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
529 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
530 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
531 * Improved Ogg demuxer
532 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
533 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
536 * G.726 audio support
537 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
538 * MPEG-4 text support
539 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
540 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
541 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
545 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
546 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
547 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
548 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
549 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
550 * DVB subtitles encoder
551 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
552 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
554 * Text track muxing for mp4
555 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
556 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
557 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
558 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
559 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
562 * H.263 RTP streaming support
563 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
564 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
567 * New audio equalizer filter
568 * Very trivial volume normalizer
569 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
570 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
571 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
574 * Roku HD1000 Video output
575 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
576 with support for effects.
577 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
578 - New filters can be streamed.
579 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
580 - Centralized scaling and blending
582 - "time", to display current time
583 - "marq", to display a marquee
586 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
587 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
588 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
589 * A few skins2 improvements
590 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
591 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
592 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
593 * Improved CORBA control module
596 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
597 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
598 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
601 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
602 * Experimental SVG rendering module
603 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
606 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
607 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
608 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
609 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
610 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
613 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
616 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
617 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
620 * Server/client network synchronization module
621 * VBrick streams fully supported
622 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
625 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
626 --------------------------------
629 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
630 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
631 * Improved HTTP daemon.
632 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
635 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
636 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
637 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
638 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
639 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
640 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
641 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
644 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
645 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
646 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
647 * Improved directory access module.
648 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
649 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
650 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
651 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
652 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
655 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
656 * mmsh streaming fixes.
657 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
660 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
661 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
662 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
665 * Improved session announcement system.
666 * Minimize threads usage by default.
667 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
668 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
669 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
670 * Improved transrater.
671 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
672 * New configuration system.
673 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
676 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
677 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
678 * Supports live streams and VoD.
679 * Supports scheduling.
680 * Telnet interface for vlm.
681 * HTTP interface for vlm.
684 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
685 - Ability to embed video output.
686 - Support for bitmap fonts.
687 - Lots of improvements.
688 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
689 - New design and set of icons.
690 - Ability to embed video output.
691 - Support for hotkeys.
692 - Support for bookmarks.
694 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
695 - Better hotkeys handling.
698 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
699 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
700 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
701 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
704 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
705 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
706 * Improved Windows installer.
712 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
713 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
715 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
716 ---------------------------------
719 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
720 * Playing MOD files is working now.
723 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
724 ---------------------------------
727 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
728 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
731 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
732 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
733 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
734 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
737 * Internal improvments
738 * Improved import/export
741 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
743 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
744 small and strange formats.
746 * New MOD audio demux.
747 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
748 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
749 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
750 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
753 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
754 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
755 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
761 * New opengl video output plugin.
764 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
765 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
767 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
768 ---------------------------------
771 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
772 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
773 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
774 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
775 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
776 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
777 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
778 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
781 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
786 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
787 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
788 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
789 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
790 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
791 * Reworked DVB tuning.
792 * Better Icecast support.
793 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
794 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
797 * Support for Theora video encoding.
798 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
799 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
800 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
801 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
802 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
803 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
806 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
807 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
808 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
809 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
810 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
811 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
812 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
813 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
814 * Preliminary RTP support.
815 * Fixes to SAP announces.
820 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
821 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
823 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
824 - Improvements and help in preferences
825 - New streaming wizard
826 - Revised Disc Open menu
828 - Improvements of the standard pages
829 - Support for new commands
830 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
833 * Many fixes to the SAP module
834 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
837 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
838 * Text subtitles autodetection.
839 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
840 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
841 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
842 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
843 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
844 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
845 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
848 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
850 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
851 * Support for Panther.
852 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
853 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
856 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
857 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
858 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
859 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
860 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
861 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
862 * Multimonitor support (untested).
863 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
866 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
867 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
868 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
871 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
874 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
875 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
876 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
877 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
879 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
880 ---------------------------------
883 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
886 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
887 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
890 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
891 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
894 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
897 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
898 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
901 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
904 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
907 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
908 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
911 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
912 ---------------------------------
915 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
916 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
920 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
921 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
922 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
924 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
925 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
928 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
931 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
934 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
935 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
938 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
939 ---------------------------------
942 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
943 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
947 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
948 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
949 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
950 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
951 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
954 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
955 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
956 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
959 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
960 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
961 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
964 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
965 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
966 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
967 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
968 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
971 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
972 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
973 * A new CORBA control plugin.
976 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
979 * Improved build system.
980 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
981 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
982 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
983 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
986 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
987 ---------------------------------
990 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
993 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
994 * Fixed large file support on Windows
995 * Video 4 Linux support
996 * CD Digital Audio support
997 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1000 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1001 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1002 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1003 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1006 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1007 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1008 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1009 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1010 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1011 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1012 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1015 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1016 * New HTTP remote control interface
1019 * 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.
1020 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1021 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1022 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1025 * New reset option for the preferences
1026 * You can set your language in the prefences
1027 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1028 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1029 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1030 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1033 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1034 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1035 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1038 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1039 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1040 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1041 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1042 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1043 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1044 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1045 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1046 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1047 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1050 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1051 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1052 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1053 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1054 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1055 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1056 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1059 * Interface localization
1060 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1061 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1062 * New full-featured Preferences window
1064 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1065 ---------------------------------
1068 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1069 * support for skins at the interface level
1070 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1071 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1072 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1073 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1074 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1077 * fixed HTTP redirects
1078 * support for opening an entire directory
1079 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1080 * new video4linux access plug-in
1081 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1084 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1085 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1086 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1089 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1090 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1091 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1092 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1093 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1094 * new codec for raw I420 video
1095 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1098 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1099 (although it still misses some important features)
1100 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1103 * new HTTP output support
1104 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1105 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1108 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1111 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1114 * reorderable playlist
1115 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1116 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1117 * support for mono audio output devices
1118 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1119 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1120 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1121 * the messages window remembers more lines
1122 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1123 * http and ogg stream output options
1124 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1127 * new skinnable interface
1128 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1130 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1131 * support for FLAC audio format
1132 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1134 * network tab in the interface
1135 * "apply" handling in preferences
1138 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1139 ---------------------------------
1142 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1143 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1144 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1145 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1147 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1148 * DTS S/PDIF support
1151 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1152 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1153 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1154 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1157 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1158 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1161 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1164 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1167 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1169 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1170 * rc interface is now fully useable
1171 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1174 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1175 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1176 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1177 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1178 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1180 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1181 * support for mouse gestures
1182 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1185 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1186 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1189 * improved ID3 tag detection
1190 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1191 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1192 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1194 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1197 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1198 ---------------------------------
1201 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1202 English was set as the preferred language
1205 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1206 --------------------------------
1209 * new mouse gesture interface
1210 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1214 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1215 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1216 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1219 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1220 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1224 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1227 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1228 without the user consent
1231 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1233 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1234 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1235 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1238 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1239 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1240 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1241 * playlist enhancements
1242 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1243 * new step forward/step backward commands
1244 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1245 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1246 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1249 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1250 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1251 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1254 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1255 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1258 * native video output is working again
1259 * only commandline interface support
1260 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1263 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1264 --------------------------------
1267 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1268 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1269 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1270 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1271 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1272 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1273 and A/52 streams are supported)
1274 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1279 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1280 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1281 * VCD entry points support
1282 * VCD image file support
1285 * support for *.asf format
1286 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1287 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1288 * support for ogg encapsulation
1289 * support for raw DV format
1290 * support for *.wav format
1291 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1294 Stream discovery & playlists:
1295 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1296 * support for .m3u file format
1297 * support for .asx file format
1298 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1301 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1302 (only available with the .avi demux)
1303 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1304 * support for raw PCM data
1305 * support for Cinepak video codec
1306 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1307 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1308 * support for Xvid codec
1309 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1310 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1311 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1313 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1315 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1318 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1321 * new WxWindows interface
1322 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1323 device and the channels configuration
1324 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1325 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1326 format that VLC can play
1327 * new swedish translation
1328 * enhancements of the playlist window
1329 * new messages window to see debug info
1330 * fixed a few crashes
1333 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1334 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1335 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1336 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working