3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
12 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
13 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
14 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
15 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
16 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
17 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
18 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
19 interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
20 It will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version.
21 If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
22 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
23 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
24 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
25 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
26 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
27 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
28 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
29 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
30 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
31 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
32 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
33 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
34 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
35 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
36 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
37 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
38 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by avcodec, avformat, swscale
39 (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build) and postproc modules.
45 * Vastly improved playlist support:
46 * Media library support
48 * Shoutcast TV listings
49 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
51 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
52 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
53 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
54 share/lua/meta/README.txt
57 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
58 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
59 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
60 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
61 * JACK audio input support
62 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
63 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
64 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
65 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
66 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
67 * Experimental EyeTV access module (Mac OS X only)
68 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
69 (available as a separate download).
71 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
72 taken from all QuickTime-compatible video devices (no audio yet)
73 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
75 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
76 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
79 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
80 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
81 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
82 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
84 * APEv1/2 tags support
85 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
86 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
88 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
89 * TiVo Series 2 support
90 * CD+G karaoke Files support
94 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
95 * Flash Screen Video support
96 * CamStudio Screen Video support
97 * DosBox Capture support
98 * Karl Morton's Video support
99 * limited atrac3 support
100 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
101 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
102 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
103 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
105 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
106 * NellyMoser ASAO support
107 * APE (Monkey audio) support
108 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support
109 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
112 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
113 * AQTitle subtitles support
114 * MKV USF subtitles support
115 * HTML-based subtitles support
116 * MPSub subtitles support
117 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
118 * MPL2 subtitles support
119 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
120 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
121 * Realtext subtitle support
122 * DKS subtitle support
123 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
124 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
127 * Flash Screen Video support
128 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
130 Video outputs and filters:
131 * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
132 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
133 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
134 * New puzzle video output filter
135 * Re-written motion detection video filter
136 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
138 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
139 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
140 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
141 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
142 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
143 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
144 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
145 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
146 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
147 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
148 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
149 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
151 Audio outputs and filters:
152 * Replay gain support
153 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
154 * New spatializer audio filter
155 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
158 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
159 * New RTP payload formats:
160 * Speex voice audio codec
161 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
162 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
163 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
164 * DCCP transport for RTP
165 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
170 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
172 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
173 end-user suitable way.
174 * Improved user interaction
175 * Improved mouse gestures
176 * Vastly improved Update checker
177 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
179 * Improved video output features
180 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
181 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
182 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
183 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
185 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
186 if libncursesw is available.
187 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
188 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
190 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
191 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
192 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
193 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
194 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
195 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
196 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
197 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
200 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
201 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
202 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
205 * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
206 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
207 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
208 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
209 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
210 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 was discontinued.
213 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
214 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
222 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
223 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
224 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
227 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
228 ----------------------------------
231 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
232 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
233 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
236 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
237 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
238 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
239 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
240 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
241 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
242 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
243 to an unexpected application termination
244 * New Serbian translation
245 * Updated Romanian translation
248 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
249 ----------------------------------
252 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
253 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
254 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
255 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
256 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
257 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
258 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
259 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
262 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
263 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
264 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
265 * Fixed AAC resampling
266 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
267 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
270 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
271 ----------------------------------
274 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
275 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
276 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
277 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
278 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
281 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
282 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
283 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
284 * Close MMS access on network timeout
285 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
288 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
289 ----------------------------------
292 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
293 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
296 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
297 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
298 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
299 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
301 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
305 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
308 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
311 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
314 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
317 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
318 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
319 encoding on multi-cpu systems
320 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
321 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
323 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
324 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
325 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
326 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
329 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
332 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
333 ----------------------------------
336 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
337 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
338 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
340 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
341 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
343 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
344 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
347 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
349 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
350 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
351 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
352 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
353 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
354 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
356 * Support for current Ogg file formats
357 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
358 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
361 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
364 * The automatic updating facility was removed
365 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
366 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
367 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
370 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
371 ----------------------------------
373 Various bugfixes, notably:
374 * Windows Vista compatibility
375 * Cropping in Direct3D
376 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
377 * RSS filter string overflow
379 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
381 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
382 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
385 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
386 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
389 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
392 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
395 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
398 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
399 ----------------------------------
401 Various bugfixes, notably:
402 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
403 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
404 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
405 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
406 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
407 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
410 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
411 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
414 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
416 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
417 * Diverse usability improvements
418 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
419 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
420 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
423 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
424 ---------------------------------
427 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
430 * Fullscreen controller improvements
433 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
434 --------------------------------
437 * Shoutcast TV listings support
440 * Support for RTSP authentication
441 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
442 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
443 * ATSC support for DVB input
444 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
445 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
446 * Improved support for Flash Video files
449 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
450 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
451 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
452 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
453 * Matroska WavPack support
454 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
455 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
456 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
459 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
460 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
461 * Improved libcaca support
465 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
466 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
468 * Systray support in skins
470 * Support for Apple Remote control
471 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
472 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
473 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
474 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
476 * Notifications using notification-daemon
479 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
481 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
482 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
483 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
484 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
485 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
487 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
488 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
497 * Updates to the libvlc API
498 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
501 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
502 --------------------------------
505 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
506 * Support for downloading updates
510 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
511 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
512 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
513 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
515 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
516 * Improved subtitles encoding support
517 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
520 * Cook (Real audio) support
522 Playlist / Services discovery:
523 * XSPF playlist support
525 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
528 * New JACK audio output
532 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
533 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
534 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
535 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
536 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
537 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
540 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
543 * System to inform the user and request information
544 - HTTP authentication
548 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
549 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
550 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
553 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
554 - Improved playlist handling
555 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
557 - Embedded Video output
558 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
559 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
560 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
561 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
562 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
564 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
565 - A bunch of new RPN functions
568 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
571 * Mac-Intel compatibility
572 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
573 * Growl "Now playing" support
576 * Ability to log to syslog
577 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
580 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
582 * A bit more automatic testing
585 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
586 ---------------------------------
589 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
590 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
593 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
594 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
597 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
600 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
601 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
607 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
610 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
611 --------------------------------
614 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
618 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
619 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
620 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
623 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
624 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
625 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
626 * GnomeVFS input module
627 * Support for RTP packet reordering
628 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
631 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
632 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
633 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
636 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
637 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
643 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
644 Mixer and Dolby Surround
647 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
648 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
649 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
652 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
654 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
655 - New extended controls panel
656 - New bookmarks window
657 - Fixed playlist sorting
658 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
660 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
661 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
662 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
663 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
667 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
668 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
670 - Include macro to include other files
674 * Should now work outside IE as well
677 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
680 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
681 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
684 The following languages were added:
689 The following languages were re-added:
693 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
694 --------------------------------
697 * Rewrite of the playlist
699 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
700 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
701 * Preferences improvements:
702 - New organization, designed to improve usability
703 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
705 * Core image manipulation support
706 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
707 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
708 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
709 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
710 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
711 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
712 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
713 now separated by ':' instead of ','
714 * Access filter architecture
715 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
716 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
720 * Support for SOCKS proxy
721 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
722 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
723 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
724 * Better support for Kasenna streams
725 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
726 * Massive Matroska improvements
727 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
729 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
730 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
731 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
732 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
733 * Support for FTP over IPv6
736 * Dirac decoder and encoder
737 * PNG decoder/encoder
738 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
739 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
742 * New Record and Timeshift filters
745 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
746 * Brand new SAP module
747 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
748 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
749 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
750 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
751 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
752 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
756 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
759 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
760 * Image file video output (png)
761 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
762 * Improvements to wall video filter
763 * Support for font color and opacity
769 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
770 - Seeking support in VoD streams
771 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
775 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
776 - Improved preferences
777 - Improvements to the wizard
778 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
780 - Redesigned playlist
781 - Improved preferences
783 - Support for multiple actions
786 - Support for the new playlist system
788 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
791 * Screensaver disabling fix
792 * DirectShow tuner configuration
793 * Support for no-decoration windows
796 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
797 * The OpenGL video output is back
798 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
799 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
800 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
801 is not yet available in the new module
802 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
805 * Support for single-buffered overlay
814 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
817 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
820 The following languages were added:
826 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
827 --------------------------------
830 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
831 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
834 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
835 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
836 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
839 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
842 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
845 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
848 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
849 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
850 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
854 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
856 * Support of playlist group announcement
859 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
860 --------------------------------
863 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
864 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
865 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
866 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
867 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
868 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
871 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
872 (Stream your desktop)
873 * Improved DVD support:
874 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
875 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
876 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
877 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
878 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
879 (selection of titles/chapters).
882 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
883 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
884 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
885 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
886 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
887 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
888 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
889 * Improved Ogg demuxer
890 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
891 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
894 * G.726 audio support
895 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
896 * MPEG-4 text support
897 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
898 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
899 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
903 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
904 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
905 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
906 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
907 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
908 * DVB subtitles encoder
909 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
910 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
912 * Text track muxing for mp4
913 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
914 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
915 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
916 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
917 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
920 * H.263 RTP streaming support
921 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
922 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
925 * New audio equalizer filter
926 * Very trivial volume normalizer
927 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
928 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
929 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
932 * Roku HD1000 Video output
933 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
934 with support for effects.
935 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
936 - New filters can be streamed.
937 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
938 - Centralized scaling and blending
940 - "time", to display current time
941 - "marq", to display a marquee
944 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
945 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
946 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
947 * A few skins2 improvements
948 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
949 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
950 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
951 * Improved CORBA control module
954 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
955 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
956 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
959 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
960 * Experimental SVG rendering module
961 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
964 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
965 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
966 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
967 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
968 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
971 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
974 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
975 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
978 * Server/client network synchronization module
979 * VBrick streams fully supported
980 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
984 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
985 --------------------------------
988 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
989 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
990 * Improved HTTP daemon.
991 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
994 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
995 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
996 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
997 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
998 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
999 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1000 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1003 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1004 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1005 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1006 * Improved directory access module.
1007 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1008 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1009 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1010 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1011 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1014 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1015 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1016 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1019 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1020 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1021 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1024 * Improved session announcement system.
1025 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1026 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1027 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1028 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1029 * Improved transrater.
1030 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1031 * New configuration system.
1032 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1035 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1036 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1037 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1038 * Supports scheduling.
1039 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1040 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1043 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1044 - Ability to embed video output.
1045 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1046 - Lots of improvements.
1047 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1048 - New design and set of icons.
1049 - Ability to embed video output.
1050 - Support for hotkeys.
1051 - Support for bookmarks.
1053 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1054 - Better hotkeys handling.
1057 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1058 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1059 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1060 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1063 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1064 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1065 * Improved Windows installer.
1071 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1072 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1075 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1076 ---------------------------------
1079 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1080 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1083 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1084 --------------------------------
1087 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1088 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1091 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1092 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1093 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1094 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1097 * Internal improvments
1098 * Improved import/export
1101 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1103 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1104 small and strange formats.
1106 * New MOD audio demux.
1107 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1108 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1109 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1110 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1113 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1114 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1115 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1121 * New opengl video output plugin.
1124 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1125 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1128 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1129 --------------------------------
1132 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1133 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1134 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1135 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1136 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1137 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1138 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1139 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1142 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1147 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1148 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1149 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1150 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1151 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1152 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1153 * Better Icecast support.
1154 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1155 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1158 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1159 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1160 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1161 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1162 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1163 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1164 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1167 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1168 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1169 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1170 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1171 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1172 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1173 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1174 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1175 * Preliminary RTP support.
1176 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1181 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1182 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1184 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1185 - Improvements and help in preferences
1186 - New streaming wizard
1187 - Revised Disc Open menu
1189 - Improvements of the standard pages
1190 - Support for new commands
1191 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1194 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1195 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1198 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1199 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1200 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1201 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1202 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1203 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1204 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1205 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1206 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1209 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1211 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1212 * Support for Panther.
1213 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1214 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1217 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1218 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1219 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1220 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1221 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1222 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1223 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1224 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1227 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1228 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1229 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1232 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1235 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1236 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1237 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1238 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1241 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1242 --------------------------------
1245 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1248 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1249 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1252 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1253 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1256 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1259 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1260 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1263 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1266 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1269 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1270 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1274 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1275 --------------------------------
1278 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1279 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1283 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1284 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1285 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1287 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1288 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1291 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1294 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1297 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1298 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1302 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1303 --------------------------------
1306 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1307 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1311 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1312 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1313 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1314 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1315 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1318 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1319 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1320 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1323 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1324 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1325 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1328 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1329 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1330 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1331 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1332 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1335 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1336 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1337 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1340 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1343 * Improved build system.
1344 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1345 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1346 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1347 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1350 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1351 --------------------------------
1354 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1357 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1358 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1359 * Video 4 Linux support
1360 * CD Digital Audio support
1361 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1364 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1365 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1366 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1367 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1370 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1371 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1372 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1373 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1374 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1375 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1376 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1379 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1380 * New HTTP remote control interface
1383 * 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.
1384 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1385 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1386 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1389 * New reset option for the preferences
1390 * You can set your language in the prefences
1391 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1392 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1393 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1394 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1397 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1398 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1399 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1402 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1403 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1404 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1405 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1406 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1407 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1408 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1409 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1410 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1411 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1414 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1415 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1416 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1417 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1418 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1419 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1420 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1423 * Interface localization
1424 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1425 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1426 * New full-featured Preferences window
1429 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1430 --------------------------------
1433 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1434 * support for skins at the interface level
1435 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1436 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1437 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1438 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1439 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1442 * fixed HTTP redirects
1443 * support for opening an entire directory
1444 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1445 * new video4linux access plug-in
1446 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1449 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1450 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1451 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1454 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1455 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1456 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1457 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1458 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1459 * new codec for raw I420 video
1460 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1463 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1464 (although it still misses some important features)
1465 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1468 * new HTTP output support
1469 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1470 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1473 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1476 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1479 * reorderable playlist
1480 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1481 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1482 * support for mono audio output devices
1483 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1484 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1485 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1486 * the messages window remembers more lines
1487 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1488 * http and ogg stream output options
1489 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1492 * new skinnable interface
1493 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1495 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1496 * support for FLAC audio format
1497 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1499 * network tab in the interface
1500 * "apply" handling in preferences
1503 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1504 ---------------------------------
1507 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1508 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1509 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1510 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1512 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1513 * DTS S/PDIF support
1516 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1517 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1518 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1519 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1522 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1523 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1526 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1529 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1532 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1534 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1535 * rc interface is now fully useable
1536 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1539 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1540 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1541 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1542 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1543 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1545 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1546 * support for mouse gestures
1547 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1550 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1551 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1554 * improved ID3 tag detection
1555 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1556 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1557 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1559 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1562 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1563 ---------------------------------
1566 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1567 English was set as the preferred language
1570 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1571 --------------------------------
1574 * new mouse gesture interface
1575 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1579 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1580 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1581 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1584 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1585 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1589 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1592 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1593 without the user consent
1596 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1598 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1599 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1600 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1603 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1604 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1605 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1606 * playlist enhancements
1607 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1608 * new step forward/step backward commands
1609 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1610 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1611 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1614 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1615 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1616 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1619 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1620 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1623 * native video output is working again
1624 * only commandline interface support
1625 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1628 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1629 --------------------------------
1632 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1633 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1634 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1635 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1636 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1637 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1638 and A/52 streams are supported)
1639 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1644 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1645 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1646 * VCD entry points support
1647 * VCD image file support
1650 * support for *.asf format
1651 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1652 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1653 * support for ogg encapsulation
1654 * support for raw DV format
1655 * support for *.wav format
1656 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1659 Stream discovery & playlists:
1660 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1661 * support for .m3u file format
1662 * support for .asx file format
1663 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1666 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1667 (only available with the .avi demux)
1668 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1669 * support for raw PCM data
1670 * support for Cinepak video codec
1671 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1672 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1673 * support for Xvid codec
1674 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1675 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1676 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1678 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1680 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1683 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1686 * new WxWindows interface
1687 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1688 device and the channels configuration
1689 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1690 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1691 format that VLC can play
1692 * new swedish translation
1693 * enhancements of the playlist window
1694 * new messages window to see debug info
1695 * fixed a few crashes
1698 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1699 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1700 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1701 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working