1 Changes between 1.2.x and 1.3.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
6 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.2.0:
7 ---------------------------------
10 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
11 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
12 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
13 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
14 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
15 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
16 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
17 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
18 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
19 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
20 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
21 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
22 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
23 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
24 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
25 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
26 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
27 --http-crl (optional CRL).
28 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
29 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
30 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
31 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
32 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
33 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
35 Important changes for packagers:
36 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
37 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
38 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
39 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
40 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
41 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
42 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
43 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
44 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
46 * The webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
49 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
50 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
51 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
52 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
53 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
54 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
55 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64
58 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
59 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
60 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
61 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
62 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
63 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
64 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
65 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
66 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
67 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
68 * PulseAudio audio input support
69 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
70 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
71 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
72 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
73 * QTSound: added support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices
74 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
75 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
78 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
79 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
80 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
81 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
82 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
83 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
84 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
85 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
86 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
87 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
88 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
89 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
90 * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
91 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
92 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
95 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
96 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
97 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
98 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
99 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
100 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
101 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
102 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
103 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
104 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
105 * Improved support of tracker files
108 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
109 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
110 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
111 * Qt: small look improvements
112 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
113 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
114 and important cleanups and optimisations
115 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
116 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
117 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
118 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
119 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
120 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
121 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
122 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
123 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
124 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
125 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
126 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
127 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
128 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
129 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
130 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
131 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
132 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
135 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
136 * New video output for iOS platform
137 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
138 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
139 * Various vmem improvements
140 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
142 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
143 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
144 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
145 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
147 Audio Output and Filters:
148 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
149 * New audio output in memory (amem)
150 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
151 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
152 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
153 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
154 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
155 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
156 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
157 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
160 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
161 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
162 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
163 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
164 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
165 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
166 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
167 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
168 * New anti-flickering filter
169 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
170 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
171 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
172 blackbox and customizable shadow.
173 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
174 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
175 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
178 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
179 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
180 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
181 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
182 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
183 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
184 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
185 * Major rework of VoD support
186 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
187 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
188 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
189 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
190 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
191 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
192 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
193 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
194 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
195 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
198 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
199 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
202 * New capabilities for libVLC:
203 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
204 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
205 list of available audio and video filters
206 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
207 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
208 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
211 * asademux: use libass only
212 * subsass: use libass
213 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
214 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
216 * upnp: use upnp_intel
217 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
218 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
219 * removal of the noise filter
220 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
221 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
222 removed in Growl's next release, too.
223 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
226 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
227 ----------------------------------
230 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
231 including support for OS X Lion
232 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
233 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
236 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
239 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
240 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
241 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
244 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
247 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
248 ----------------------------------
251 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
252 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
255 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
256 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
257 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
258 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
259 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
261 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
262 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
263 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
265 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
266 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
269 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
272 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
275 * Fix quitting on Linux
276 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
280 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
283 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
286 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
287 ---------------------------------
289 Windows and Mac OS X:
290 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
293 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
294 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
297 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
300 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
303 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
305 Miscellaneous fixes in:
306 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
308 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
309 * RTP output and XML export
310 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
314 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
315 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
316 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
317 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
320 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
321 --------------------------------
323 Windows and Mac OS X:
324 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
327 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
330 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
331 * Improve Apple Remote handling
332 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
333 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
334 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
335 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
338 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
339 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
343 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
344 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
345 * New Luganda Translation
348 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
349 --------------------------------
352 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
355 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
356 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
357 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
358 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
361 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
363 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
364 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
365 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
366 * mp4 demuxer improvements
367 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
368 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
369 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
370 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
372 Miscellaneous fixes in:
373 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
374 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
375 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
376 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
377 * Configure and build system improvements
378 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
381 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
382 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
383 * New icelandic translation
386 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
387 --------------------------------
390 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
394 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
395 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
396 and stability reasons
399 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
403 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
406 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
407 ----------------------------------
410 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
413 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
414 ---------------------------------
417 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
418 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
419 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
420 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
423 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
426 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
427 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
428 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
429 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
432 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
433 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
434 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
436 Subtitles and renderer:
437 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
438 * Mark more freetype options as safe
439 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
440 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
441 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
444 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
445 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
446 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
447 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
450 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
451 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
454 * KDE device solid actions
456 * Transcode integer overflow
457 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
458 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
461 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
462 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
463 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
466 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
467 ----------------------------------
470 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
474 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
477 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
480 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
481 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
482 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
483 * Taglib thread-safety fix
486 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
490 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
493 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
496 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
497 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
499 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
503 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
504 * Miscellaneous fixes
507 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
508 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
510 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
511 * New Asturian translation
514 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
515 ----------------------------------
518 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
520 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
523 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
526 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
527 * Various fixes for Windows
530 * New Armenian translation
531 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
532 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
535 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
536 --------------------------------
539 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
541 * Fix folders opening from the interface
544 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
545 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
548 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
549 --------------------------------
552 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
553 * fix for podcasts parsing
554 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
557 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
558 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
561 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
562 * fix m3u playlists exports
565 * fix video autoresize behaviour
568 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
571 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
574 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
577 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
580 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
581 --------------------------------
584 * Avformat fps displaying fix
585 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
588 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
589 of mono streams, especially on Windows
592 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
593 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
594 * fix console output encoding
596 Interface and extensions:
597 * Youtube and other scripts updates
598 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
601 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
602 --------------------------------
605 * New capabilities for libVLC:
606 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
607 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
608 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
609 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
610 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
611 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
612 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
613 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
614 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
615 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
616 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
617 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
618 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
619 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
620 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
624 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
625 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
626 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
627 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
628 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
631 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
634 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
635 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
636 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
640 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
643 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
644 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
645 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
648 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
649 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
650 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
651 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
654 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
655 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
658 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
659 --------------------------------
661 Important changes for users:
662 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
663 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
665 Important changes for packagers:
666 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
667 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
668 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
669 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
670 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
672 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
674 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
675 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
676 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
677 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
678 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
681 * Support for the sftp protocol
682 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
683 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
684 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
685 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
686 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
689 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
690 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
691 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
693 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
694 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
695 * Invmem module improvements
696 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
697 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
698 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
699 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
700 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
701 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
702 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
703 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
704 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
705 * Support for VP8 codec
706 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
709 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
710 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
711 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
712 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
713 * Various EGP improvements
714 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
715 * Metadata and cover art improvements
718 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
719 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
720 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
721 * Podcast images are now displayed
724 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
725 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
726 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
727 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
728 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
729 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
730 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
731 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
732 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
733 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
734 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
737 * New content extensions lua framework
740 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
741 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
742 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
743 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
744 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
745 * NEON assembly audio converter module
746 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
749 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
750 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
751 * Service discovery based on libudev
752 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
755 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
756 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
757 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
758 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
759 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
760 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
761 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
764 * New smem module, streaming to memory
765 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
766 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
769 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
771 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
772 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
775 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
778 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
779 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
780 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
781 by Andy Matuschak et al.
782 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
783 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
784 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
787 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
788 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
791 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
792 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
793 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
797 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
798 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
799 * Improved Solaris port
802 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
803 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
806 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
807 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
808 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
809 * transrate: broken since too long
810 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
811 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
812 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
813 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
814 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
815 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
816 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
817 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
818 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
819 * cddax: use cdda instead.
820 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
821 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
822 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
823 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
826 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
827 --------------------------------
830 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
832 Decoders/Packetizers:
833 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
836 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
837 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
838 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
839 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
840 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
843 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
844 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
847 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
848 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
851 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
852 and Walloon translations updated
853 * Sinhala translation started
856 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
857 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
860 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
861 --------------------------------
864 * SubRip extra styles improvements
865 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
868 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
871 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
872 increase performance and fix x264 issues
875 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
876 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
877 Russian, Slovak translation updates
878 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
881 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
882 --------------------------------
885 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
886 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
889 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
890 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
893 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
894 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
897 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
900 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
901 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
904 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
905 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
908 * New Walloon translation
909 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
912 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
913 --------------------------------
916 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
917 regressions in most popular drivers
918 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
921 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
922 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
923 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
926 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
927 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
930 * Update for appletrailers lua script
931 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
932 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
933 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
934 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
937 * New udev module for linux
940 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
943 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
946 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
947 --------------------------------
950 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
951 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
952 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
955 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
956 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
959 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
960 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
963 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
966 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
967 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
968 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
969 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
972 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
973 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
974 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
975 - no support for Goom and SDL
976 - limited text rendering support
977 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
980 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
981 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
982 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
983 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
984 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
985 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
986 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
987 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
988 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
992 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
995 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
998 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
999 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1000 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1001 Arabic and French translation updates
1004 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1005 --------------------------------
1008 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1009 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1010 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1011 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1012 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1013 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1016 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1017 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1018 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1021 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1022 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1023 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1026 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1029 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1030 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1033 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1034 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1035 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1036 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1037 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1038 * Fix various crashes
1041 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1043 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1047 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1048 ---------------------------------
1052 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1053 See 'Access:' for more info.
1054 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1057 * Instantaneous pausing
1058 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1059 * Finer speed control
1060 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1061 * Timeshift for most medias
1062 * RTSP trickplay support
1063 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1066 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1067 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1068 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1069 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1070 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1071 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1072 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1073 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1074 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1075 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1078 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1079 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1080 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1081 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1082 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1083 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1084 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1087 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1088 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1091 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1092 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1093 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1094 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1095 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1096 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1097 * DVB scanning on linux
1098 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1099 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1100 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1101 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1102 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1103 * MTP device access on Unix
1104 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1105 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1108 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1109 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1110 Windows and Mac OS X.
1113 * Export the playlist in HTML
1114 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1115 * Better metadata handling and reading
1117 Linux/Windows interface:
1118 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1119 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1120 * Recently played items list
1121 * Interface toolbar customizations
1122 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1123 - More menus actions
1124 - Finer speed slider
1125 - Improvements on many dialogs
1126 - New dialog for plugins listing
1127 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1128 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1129 * Better integration in GTK environments
1132 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1133 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1134 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1135 * Additional usability improvements
1138 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1139 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1140 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1141 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1142 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1145 * New Maemo port with:
1146 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1147 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1150 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1153 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1154 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1155 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1156 * Support for latest iSight models
1159 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1160 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1163 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1164 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1165 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1166 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1167 The old image video output has been removed.
1168 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1169 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1172 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1180 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1181 --------------------------------------
1187 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1188 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1189 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1190 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1191 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1192 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1193 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1195 Various fixes to the following modules:
1198 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1199 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1200 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1202 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1207 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1208 ---------------------------------
1211 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1212 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1215 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1216 ---------------------------------
1219 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1222 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1225 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1226 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1227 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1228 main controller window.
1229 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1232 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1237 * Updates of other localizations
1240 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1241 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1242 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1243 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1244 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1247 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1248 ---------------------------------
1251 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1253 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1256 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1257 --------------------------------
1262 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1263 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1266 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1267 --------------------------------
1269 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1270 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1273 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1276 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1277 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1280 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1281 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1284 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1285 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1286 * Various fixed in playlist
1289 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1292 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1295 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1296 ------------------------------------
1298 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1299 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1302 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1303 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1304 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1307 * Stability fix for the video output.
1310 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1311 --------------------------------
1314 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1315 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1316 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1317 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1318 * Fixed update system bugs
1319 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1322 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1323 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1324 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1325 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1326 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1327 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1328 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1329 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1330 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1331 modern Mac OS X versions
1334 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1335 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1337 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1338 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1341 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1342 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1343 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1344 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1345 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1346 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1349 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1350 --------------------------------
1352 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1353 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1354 * Multiple bugfixes.
1357 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1358 --------------------------------
1360 * Multiple bug fixes.
1363 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1364 ---------------------------------
1368 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1369 recent to work correctly
1370 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1371 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1372 edit the ".hosts" file.
1373 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1374 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1375 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1376 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1377 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1378 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1379 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1380 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1381 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1382 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1383 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1384 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1385 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1386 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1387 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1388 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1389 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1390 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1391 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1392 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1393 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1394 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1395 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1396 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1397 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1398 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1399 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1400 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1401 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1402 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1403 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1404 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1405 and postproc modules.
1406 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1407 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1408 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1409 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1411 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1412 filter. For example:
1413 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1414 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1416 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1417 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1423 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1425 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1426 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1429 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1430 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1432 * Shoutcast TV listings
1433 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1435 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1436 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1438 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1441 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1442 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1443 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1444 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1445 * JACK audio input support
1446 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1447 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1448 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1449 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1450 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1451 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1452 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1453 (available as a separate download).
1454 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1455 * RTMP input support
1456 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1457 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1458 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1460 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1461 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1464 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1465 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1466 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1467 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1469 * APEv1/2 tags support
1470 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1471 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1473 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1474 * TiVo Series 2 support
1475 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1480 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1481 * Flash Screen Video support
1482 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1483 * DosBox Capture support
1484 * Karl Morton's Video support
1485 * limited atrac3 support
1487 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1488 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1489 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1490 * H.264 PAFF support
1491 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1492 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1493 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1494 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1495 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1498 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1499 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1500 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1501 * AQTitle subtitles support
1502 * MKV USF subtitles support
1503 * HTML-based subtitles support
1504 * MPSub subtitles support
1505 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1506 * MPL2 subtitles support
1507 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1508 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1509 * Realtext subtitle support
1510 * DKS subtitle support
1511 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1512 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1515 * Flash Screen Video support
1516 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1518 Video outputs and filters:
1519 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1520 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1521 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1522 * New puzzle video output filter
1523 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1524 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1526 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1527 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1528 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1529 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1530 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1531 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1532 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1533 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1534 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1535 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1536 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1537 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1538 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1539 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1541 Audio outputs and filters:
1542 * Replay gain support
1543 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1544 new scaletempo audio filter)
1545 * New spatializer audio filter
1546 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1549 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1550 * New RTP payload formats:
1551 * Speex voice audio codec
1552 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1553 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1554 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1555 * DCCP transport for RTP
1556 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1561 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1562 end-user suitable way.
1563 * Improved user interaction
1564 * Improved mouse gestures
1565 * Vastly improved Update checker
1566 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1568 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1569 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1571 * Improved video output features
1572 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1573 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1574 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1575 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1576 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1578 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1579 if libncursesw is available.
1580 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1581 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1582 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1584 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1585 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1586 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1587 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1588 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1589 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1590 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1591 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1594 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1595 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1596 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1599 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1600 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1601 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1602 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1603 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1604 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1607 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1608 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1618 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1619 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1620 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1623 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1624 ----------------------------------
1627 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1630 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1631 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1632 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1633 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1634 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1635 * Updated Polish translation
1638 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1639 ----------------------------------
1642 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1643 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1644 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1647 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1648 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1649 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1650 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1651 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1652 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1653 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1654 to an unexpected application termination
1655 * New Serbian translation
1656 * Updated Romanian translation
1659 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1660 ----------------------------------
1663 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1664 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1665 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1666 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1667 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1668 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1669 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1670 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1673 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1674 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1675 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1676 * Fixed AAC resampling
1677 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1678 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1681 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1682 ----------------------------------
1685 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1686 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1687 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1688 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1689 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1692 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1693 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1694 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1695 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1696 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1699 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1700 ----------------------------------
1703 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1704 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1707 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1708 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1709 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1710 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1712 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1716 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1719 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1722 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1725 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1728 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1729 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1730 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1731 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1732 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1734 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1735 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1736 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1737 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1740 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1743 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1744 ----------------------------------
1747 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1748 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1749 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1751 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1752 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1754 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1755 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1758 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1760 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1761 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1762 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1763 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1764 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1765 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1766 two different movies
1767 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1768 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1769 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1772 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1775 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1776 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1777 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1778 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1781 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1782 ----------------------------------
1784 Various bugfixes, notably:
1785 * Windows Vista compatibility
1786 * Cropping in Direct3D
1787 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1788 * RSS filter string overflow
1790 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1792 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1793 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1796 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1797 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1800 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1803 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1806 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1809 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1810 ----------------------------------
1812 Various bugfixes, notably:
1813 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1814 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1815 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1816 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1817 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1818 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1821 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1822 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1825 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1827 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1828 * Diverse usability improvements
1829 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1830 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1831 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1834 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1835 ---------------------------------
1837 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1838 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1841 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1844 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1845 --------------------------------
1848 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1851 * Support for RTSP authentication
1852 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1853 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1854 * ATSC support for DVB input
1855 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1856 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1857 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1860 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1861 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1862 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1863 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1864 * Matroska WavPack support
1865 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1866 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1867 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1870 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1871 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1872 * Improved libcaca support
1876 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1877 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1879 * Systray support in skins
1881 * Support for Apple Remote control
1882 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1883 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1884 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1885 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1887 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1890 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1891 Windows 9x/ME users:
1892 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1893 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1894 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1895 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1896 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1898 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1899 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1908 * Updates to the libvlc API
1909 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1912 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1913 --------------------------------
1916 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1917 * Support for downloading updates
1921 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1922 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1923 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1924 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1926 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1927 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1928 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1931 * Cook (Real audio) support
1933 Playlist / Services discovery:
1934 * XSPF playlist support
1936 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1939 * New JACK audio output
1942 * New video filters:
1943 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1944 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1945 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1946 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1947 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1948 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1951 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1954 * System to inform the user and request information
1955 - HTTP authentication
1959 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1960 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1961 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1964 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1965 - Improved playlist handling
1966 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1968 - Embedded Video output
1969 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1970 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1971 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1972 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1973 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1975 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1976 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1979 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1982 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1983 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1984 * Growl "Now playing" support
1987 * Ability to log to syslog
1988 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1991 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1993 * A bit more automatic testing
1996 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1997 ---------------------------------
2000 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2001 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2004 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2005 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2008 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2011 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2012 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2018 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2021 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2022 --------------------------------
2025 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2029 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2030 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2031 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2034 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2035 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2036 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2037 * GnomeVFS input module
2038 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2039 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2042 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2043 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2044 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2047 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2048 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2054 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2055 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2058 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2059 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2060 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2063 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2065 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2066 - New extended controls panel
2067 - New bookmarks window
2068 - Fixed playlist sorting
2069 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2071 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2072 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2073 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2074 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2078 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2079 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2081 - Include macro to include other files
2085 * Should now work outside IE as well
2088 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2091 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2092 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2095 The following languages were added:
2099 * Simplified Chinese
2100 The following languages were re-added:
2104 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2105 --------------------------------
2108 * Rewrite of the playlist
2110 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2111 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2112 * Preferences improvements:
2113 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2114 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2116 * Core image manipulation support
2117 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2118 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2119 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2120 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2121 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2122 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2123 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2124 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2125 * Access filter architecture
2126 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2127 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2131 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2132 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2133 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2134 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2135 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2136 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2137 * Massive Matroska improvements
2138 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2140 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2141 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2142 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2143 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2144 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2146 Decoders / Encoders:
2147 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2148 * PNG decoder/encoder
2149 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2150 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2153 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2156 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2157 * Brand new SAP module
2158 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2159 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2160 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2161 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2162 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2163 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2167 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2170 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2171 * Image file video output (png)
2172 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2173 * Improvements to wall video filter
2174 * Support for font color and opacity
2180 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2181 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2182 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2186 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2187 - Improved preferences
2188 - Improvements to the wizard
2189 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2191 - Redesigned playlist
2192 - Improved preferences
2194 - Support for multiple actions
2197 - Support for the new playlist system
2199 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2202 * Screensaver disabling fix
2203 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2204 * Support for no-decoration windows
2207 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2208 * The OpenGL video output is back
2209 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2210 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2211 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2212 is not yet available in the new module
2213 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2216 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2225 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2228 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2231 The following languages were added:
2237 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2238 --------------------------------
2241 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2242 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2245 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2246 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2247 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2250 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2253 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2256 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2259 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2260 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2261 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2265 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2267 * Support of playlist group announcement
2270 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2271 --------------------------------
2274 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2275 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2276 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2277 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2278 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2279 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2282 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2283 (Stream your desktop)
2284 * Improved DVD support:
2285 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2286 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2287 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2288 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2289 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2290 (selection of titles/chapters).
2293 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2294 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2295 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2296 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2297 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2298 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2299 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2300 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2301 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2302 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2305 * G.726 audio support
2306 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2307 * MPEG-4 text support
2308 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2309 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2310 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2314 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2315 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2316 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2317 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2318 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2319 * DVB subtitles encoder
2320 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2321 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2323 * Text track muxing for mp4
2324 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2325 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2326 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2327 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2328 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2329 * Improved ASF muxer
2331 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2332 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2333 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2336 * New audio equalizer filter
2337 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2338 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2339 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2340 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2343 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2344 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2345 with support for effects.
2346 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2347 - New filters can be streamed.
2348 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2349 - Centralized scaling and blending
2351 - "time", to display current time
2352 - "marq", to display a marquee
2355 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2356 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2357 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2358 * A few skins2 improvements
2359 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2360 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2361 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2362 * Improved CORBA control module
2365 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2366 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2367 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2370 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2371 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2372 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2375 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2376 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2377 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2378 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2379 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2382 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2385 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2386 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2389 * Server/client network synchronization module
2390 * VBrick streams fully supported
2391 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2395 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2396 --------------------------------
2399 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2400 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2401 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2402 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2405 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2406 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2407 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2408 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2409 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2410 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2411 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2414 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2415 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2416 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2417 * Improved directory access module.
2418 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2419 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2420 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2421 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2422 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2425 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2426 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2427 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2430 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2431 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2432 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2435 * Improved session announcement system.
2436 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2437 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2438 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2439 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2440 * Improved transrater.
2441 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2442 * New configuration system.
2443 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2446 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2447 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2448 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2449 * Supports scheduling.
2450 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2451 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2454 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2455 - Ability to embed video output.
2456 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2457 - Lots of improvements.
2458 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2459 - New design and set of icons.
2460 - Ability to embed video output.
2461 - Support for hotkeys.
2462 - Support for bookmarks.
2464 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2465 - Better hotkeys handling.
2468 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2469 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2470 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2471 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2474 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2475 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2476 * Improved Windows installer.
2482 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2483 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2486 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2487 ---------------------------------
2490 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2491 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2494 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2495 --------------------------------
2498 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2499 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2502 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2503 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2504 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2505 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2508 * Internal improvments
2509 * Improved import/export
2512 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2514 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2515 small and strange formats.
2517 * New MOD audio demux.
2518 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2519 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2520 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2521 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2524 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2525 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2526 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2532 * New opengl video output plugin.
2535 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2536 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2539 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2540 --------------------------------
2543 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2544 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2545 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2546 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2547 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2548 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2549 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2550 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2553 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2558 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2559 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2560 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2561 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2562 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2563 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2564 * Better Icecast support.
2565 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2566 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2569 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2570 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2571 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2572 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2573 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2574 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2575 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2578 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2579 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2580 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2581 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2582 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2583 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2584 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2585 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2586 * Preliminary RTP support.
2587 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2592 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2593 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2595 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2596 - Improvements and help in preferences
2597 - New streaming wizard
2598 - Revised Disc Open menu
2600 - Improvements of the standard pages
2601 - Support for new commands
2602 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2605 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2606 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2609 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2610 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2611 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2612 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2613 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2614 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2615 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2616 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2617 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2620 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2622 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2623 * Support for Panther.
2624 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2625 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2628 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2629 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2630 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2631 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2632 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2633 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2634 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2635 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2638 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2639 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2640 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2643 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2646 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2647 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2648 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2649 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2652 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2653 --------------------------------
2656 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2659 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2660 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2663 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2664 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2667 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2670 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2671 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2674 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2677 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2680 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2681 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2685 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2686 --------------------------------
2689 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2690 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2694 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2695 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2696 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2698 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2699 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2702 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2705 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2708 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2709 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2713 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2714 --------------------------------
2717 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2718 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2722 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2723 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2724 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2725 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2726 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2729 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2730 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2731 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2734 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2735 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2736 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2739 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2740 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2741 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2742 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2743 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2746 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2747 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2748 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2751 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2754 * Improved build system.
2755 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2756 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2757 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2758 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2761 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2762 --------------------------------
2765 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2768 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2769 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2770 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2771 * Video 4 Linux support
2772 * CD Digital Audio support
2773 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2776 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2777 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2778 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2779 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2782 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2783 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2784 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2785 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2786 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2787 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2788 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2791 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2792 * New HTTP remote control interface
2795 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2796 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2797 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2798 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2799 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2802 * New reset option for the preferences
2803 * You can set your language in the prefences
2804 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2805 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2806 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2807 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2810 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2811 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2812 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2815 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2816 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2817 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2818 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2819 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2820 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2821 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2822 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2823 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2824 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2827 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2828 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2829 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2830 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2831 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2832 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2833 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2836 * Interface localization
2837 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2838 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2839 * New full-featured Preferences window
2842 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2843 --------------------------------
2846 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2847 * support for skins at the interface level
2848 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2849 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2850 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2851 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2852 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2855 * fixed HTTP redirects
2856 * support for opening an entire directory
2857 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2858 * new video4linux access plug-in
2859 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2862 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2863 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2864 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2867 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2868 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2869 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2870 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2871 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2872 * new codec for raw I420 video
2873 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2876 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2877 (although it still misses some important features)
2878 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2881 * new HTTP output support
2882 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2883 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2886 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2889 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2892 * reorderable playlist
2893 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2894 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2895 * support for mono audio output devices
2896 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2897 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2898 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2899 * the messages window remembers more lines
2900 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2901 * http and ogg stream output options
2902 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2905 * new skinnable interface
2906 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2908 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2909 * support for FLAC audio format
2910 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2912 * network tab in the interface
2913 * "apply" handling in preferences
2916 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2917 ---------------------------------
2920 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2921 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2922 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2923 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2925 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2926 * DTS S/PDIF support
2929 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2930 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2931 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2932 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2935 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2936 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2939 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2942 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2945 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2947 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2948 * rc interface is now fully useable
2949 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2952 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2953 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2954 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2955 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2956 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2958 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2959 * support for mouse gestures
2960 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2963 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2964 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2967 * improved ID3 tag detection
2968 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2969 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2970 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2972 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2975 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2976 ---------------------------------
2979 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2980 English was set as the preferred language
2983 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2984 --------------------------------
2987 * new mouse gesture interface
2988 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2992 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2993 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2994 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2997 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2998 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3002 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3005 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3006 without the user consent
3009 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3011 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3012 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3013 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3016 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3017 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3018 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3019 * playlist enhancements
3020 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3021 * new step forward/step backward commands
3022 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3023 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3024 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3027 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3028 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3029 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3032 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3033 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3036 * native video output is working again
3037 * only commandline interface support
3038 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3041 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3042 --------------------------------
3045 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3046 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3047 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3048 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3049 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3050 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3051 and A/52 streams are supported)
3052 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3057 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3058 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3059 * VCD entry points support
3060 * VCD image file support
3063 * support for *.asf format
3064 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3065 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3066 * support for ogg encapsulation
3067 * support for raw DV format
3068 * support for *.wav format
3069 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3072 Stream discovery & playlists:
3073 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3074 * support for .m3u file format
3075 * support for .asx file format
3076 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3079 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3080 (only available with the .avi demux)
3081 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3082 * support for raw PCM data
3083 * support for Cinepak video codec
3084 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3085 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3086 * support for Xvid codec
3087 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3088 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3089 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3091 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3093 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3096 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3099 * new WxWindows interface
3100 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3101 device and the channels configuration
3102 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3103 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3104 format that VLC can play
3105 * new swedish translation
3106 * enhancements of the playlist window
3107 * new messages window to see debug info
3108 * fixed a few crashes
3111 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3112 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3113 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3114 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working