3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
12 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
13 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
14 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
15 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
16 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
17 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
19 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
20 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
21 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
22 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
23 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
24 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
30 * Vastly improved playlist support:
31 * Media library support
33 * Shoutcast TV listings
34 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
35 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
36 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
39 * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
40 * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
41 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
42 * JACK audio input support
43 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
44 * Input run time option ( improved live stream recording )
45 * Fixed aiff stereo file
46 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
47 * Improved FLAC demuxer ( duration / current time / meta data )
49 * APEv1/2 tags support
50 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
54 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
55 * MKV USF subtitles support
56 * HTML based subtitles support
57 * Flash Screen Video support
58 * CamStudio Screen Video support
59 * DosBox Capture support
60 * Karl Morton's Video support
61 * limited atrac3 support
62 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files (Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...)
65 * Flash Screen Video support
67 Video output and filters:
68 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
69 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
70 * New puzzle video output filter
71 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
72 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
74 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
75 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
76 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
78 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
79 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
80 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
81 was previously part of the mosaic module.
82 * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
83 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
84 * Support for Intel SSE2 intruction set in chroma converters
85 * Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters
88 * Replay gain support.
89 * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet )
92 * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
96 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
98 * Improved user interaction
99 * Improved mouse gestures
101 * Allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
102 * D-Bus Interface (experimental) implements the MPRIS
103 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
104 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
106 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
109 * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
116 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
117 ----------------------------------
119 Various bugfixes, notably:
120 * Windows Vista compatibility
121 * Cropping in Direct3D
122 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
123 * RSS filter string overflow
125 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
127 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
128 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316)
131 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
134 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
137 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
140 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
143 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
144 ----------------------------------
146 Various bugfixes, notably:
147 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
148 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
149 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
150 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
151 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
152 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
155 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
156 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
159 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
161 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
162 * Diverse usability improvements
163 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
164 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
165 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
168 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
169 ---------------------------------
172 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
175 * Fullscreen controller improvements
178 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
179 --------------------------------
182 * Shoutcast TV listings support
185 * Support for RTSP authentication
186 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
187 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
188 * ATSC support for DVB input
189 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
190 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
191 * Improved support for Flash Video files
194 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
195 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
196 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
197 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
198 * Matroska WavPack support
199 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
200 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
201 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
204 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
205 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
206 * Improved libcaca support
210 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
211 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
213 * Systray support in skins
215 * Support for Apple Remote control
216 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
217 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
218 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
219 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
221 * Notifications using notification-daemon
224 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
226 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
227 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
228 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
229 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
230 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
232 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
233 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
242 * Updates to the libvlc API
243 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
246 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
247 --------------------------------
250 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
251 * Support for downloading updates
255 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
256 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
257 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
258 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
260 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
261 * Improved subtitles encoding support
262 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
265 * Cook (Real audio) support
267 Playlist / Services discovery:
268 * XSPF playlist support
270 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
273 * New JACK audio output
277 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
278 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
279 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
280 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
281 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
282 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
285 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
288 * System to inform the user and request information
289 - HTTP authentication
293 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
294 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
295 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
298 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
299 - Improved playlist handling
300 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
302 - Embedded Video output
303 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
304 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
305 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
306 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
307 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
309 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
310 - A bunch of new RPN functions
313 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
316 * Mac-Intel compatibility
317 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
318 * Growl "Now playing" support
321 * Ability to log to syslog
322 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
325 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
327 * A bit more automatic testing
330 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
331 ---------------------------------
334 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
335 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
338 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
339 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
342 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
345 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
346 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
352 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
355 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
356 --------------------------------
359 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
363 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
364 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
365 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
368 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
369 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
370 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
371 * GnomeVFS input module
372 * Support for RTP packet reordering
373 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
376 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
377 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
378 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
381 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
382 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
388 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
389 Mixer and Dolby Surround
392 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
393 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
394 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
397 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
399 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
400 - New extended controls panel
401 - New bookmarks window
402 - Fixed playlist sorting
403 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
405 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
406 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
407 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
408 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
412 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
413 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
415 - Include macro to include other files
419 * Should now work outside IE as well
422 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
425 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
426 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
429 The following languages were added:
434 The following languages were re-added:
438 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
439 --------------------------------
442 * Rewrite of the playlist
444 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
445 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
446 * Preferences improvements:
447 - New organization, designed to improve usability
448 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
450 * Core image manipulation support
451 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
452 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
453 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
454 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
455 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
456 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
457 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
458 now separated by ':' instead of ','
459 * Access filter architecture
460 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
461 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
465 * Support for SOCKS proxy
466 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
467 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
468 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
469 * Better support for Kasenna streams
470 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
471 * Massive Matroska improvements
472 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
474 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
475 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
476 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
477 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
478 * Support for FTP over IPv6
481 * Dirac decoder and encoder
482 * PNG decoder/encoder
483 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
484 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
487 * New Record and Timeshift filters
490 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
491 * Brand new SAP module
492 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
493 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
494 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
495 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
496 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
497 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
501 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
504 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
505 * Image file video output (png)
506 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
507 * Improvements to wall video filter
508 * Support for font color and opacity
514 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
515 - Seeking support in VoD streams
516 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
520 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
521 - Improved preferences
522 - Improvements to the wizard
523 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
525 - Redesigned playlist
526 - Improved preferences
528 - Support for multiple actions
531 - Support for the new playlist system
533 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
536 * Screensaver disabling fix
537 * DirectShow tuner configuration
538 * Support for no-decoration windows
541 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
542 * The OpenGL video output is back
543 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
544 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
545 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
546 is not yet available in the new module
547 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
550 * Support for single-buffered overlay
559 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
562 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
565 The following languages were added:
571 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
572 --------------------------------
575 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
576 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
579 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
580 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
581 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
584 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
587 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
590 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
593 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
594 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
595 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
599 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
601 * Support of playlist group announcement
604 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
605 --------------------------------
608 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
609 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
610 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
611 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
612 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
613 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
616 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
617 (Stream your desktop)
618 * Improved DVD support:
619 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
620 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
621 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
622 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
623 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
624 (selection of titles/chapters).
627 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
628 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
629 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
630 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
631 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
632 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
633 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
634 * Improved Ogg demuxer
635 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
636 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
639 * G.726 audio support
640 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
641 * MPEG-4 text support
642 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
643 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
644 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
648 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
649 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
650 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
651 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
652 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
653 * DVB subtitles encoder
654 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
655 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
657 * Text track muxing for mp4
658 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
659 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
660 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
661 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
662 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
665 * H.263 RTP streaming support
666 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
667 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
670 * New audio equalizer filter
671 * Very trivial volume normalizer
672 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
673 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
674 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
677 * Roku HD1000 Video output
678 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
679 with support for effects.
680 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
681 - New filters can be streamed.
682 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
683 - Centralized scaling and blending
685 - "time", to display current time
686 - "marq", to display a marquee
689 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
690 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
691 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
692 * A few skins2 improvements
693 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
694 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
695 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
696 * Improved CORBA control module
699 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
700 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
701 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
704 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
705 * Experimental SVG rendering module
706 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
709 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
710 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
711 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
712 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
713 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
716 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
719 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
720 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
723 * Server/client network synchronization module
724 * VBrick streams fully supported
725 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
729 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
730 --------------------------------
733 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
734 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
735 * Improved HTTP daemon.
736 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
739 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
740 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
741 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
742 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
743 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
744 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
745 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
748 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
749 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
750 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
751 * Improved directory access module.
752 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
753 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
754 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
755 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
756 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
759 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
760 * mmsh streaming fixes.
761 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
764 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
765 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
766 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
769 * Improved session announcement system.
770 * Minimize threads usage by default.
771 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
772 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
773 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
774 * Improved transrater.
775 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
776 * New configuration system.
777 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
780 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
781 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
782 * Supports live streams and VoD.
783 * Supports scheduling.
784 * Telnet interface for vlm.
785 * HTTP interface for vlm.
788 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
789 - Ability to embed video output.
790 - Support for bitmap fonts.
791 - Lots of improvements.
792 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
793 - New design and set of icons.
794 - Ability to embed video output.
795 - Support for hotkeys.
796 - Support for bookmarks.
798 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
799 - Better hotkeys handling.
802 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
803 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
804 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
805 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
808 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
809 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
810 * Improved Windows installer.
816 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
817 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
820 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
821 ---------------------------------
824 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
825 * Playing MOD files is working now.
828 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
829 --------------------------------
832 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
833 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
836 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
837 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
838 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
839 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
842 * Internal improvments
843 * Improved import/export
846 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
848 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
849 small and strange formats.
851 * New MOD audio demux.
852 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
853 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
854 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
855 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
858 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
859 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
860 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
866 * New opengl video output plugin.
869 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
870 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
873 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
874 --------------------------------
877 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
878 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
879 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
880 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
881 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
882 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
883 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
884 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
887 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
892 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
893 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
894 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
895 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
896 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
897 * Reworked DVB tuning.
898 * Better Icecast support.
899 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
900 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
903 * Support for Theora video encoding.
904 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
905 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
906 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
907 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
908 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
909 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
912 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
913 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
914 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
915 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
916 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
917 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
918 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
919 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
920 * Preliminary RTP support.
921 * Fixes to SAP announces.
926 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
927 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
929 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
930 - Improvements and help in preferences
931 - New streaming wizard
932 - Revised Disc Open menu
934 - Improvements of the standard pages
935 - Support for new commands
936 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
939 * Many fixes to the SAP module
940 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
943 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
944 * Text subtitles autodetection.
945 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
946 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
947 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
948 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
949 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
950 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
951 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
954 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
956 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
957 * Support for Panther.
958 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
959 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
962 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
963 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
964 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
965 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
966 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
967 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
968 * Multimonitor support (untested).
969 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
972 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
973 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
974 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
977 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
980 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
981 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
982 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
983 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
986 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
987 --------------------------------
990 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
993 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
994 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
997 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
998 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1001 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1004 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1005 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1008 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1011 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1014 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1015 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1019 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1020 --------------------------------
1023 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1024 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1028 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1029 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1030 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1032 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1033 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1036 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1039 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1042 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1043 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1047 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1048 --------------------------------
1051 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1052 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1056 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1057 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1058 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1059 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1060 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1063 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1064 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1065 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1068 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1069 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1070 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1073 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1074 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1075 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1076 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1077 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1080 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1081 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1082 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1085 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1088 * Improved build system.
1089 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1090 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1091 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1092 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1095 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1096 --------------------------------
1099 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1102 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1103 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1104 * Video 4 Linux support
1105 * CD Digital Audio support
1106 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1109 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1110 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1111 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1112 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1115 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1116 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1117 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1118 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1119 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1120 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1121 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1124 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1125 * New HTTP remote control interface
1128 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1129 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1130 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1131 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1134 * New reset option for the preferences
1135 * You can set your language in the prefences
1136 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1137 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1138 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1139 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1142 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1143 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1144 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1147 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1148 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1149 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1150 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1151 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1152 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1153 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1154 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1155 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1156 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1159 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1160 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1161 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1162 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1163 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1164 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1165 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1168 * Interface localization
1169 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1170 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1171 * New full-featured Preferences window
1174 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1175 --------------------------------
1178 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1179 * support for skins at the interface level
1180 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1181 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1182 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1183 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1184 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1187 * fixed HTTP redirects
1188 * support for opening an entire directory
1189 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1190 * new video4linux access plug-in
1191 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1194 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1195 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1196 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1199 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1200 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1201 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1202 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1203 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1204 * new codec for raw I420 video
1205 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1208 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1209 (although it still misses some important features)
1210 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1213 * new HTTP output support
1214 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1215 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1218 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1221 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1224 * reorderable playlist
1225 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1226 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1227 * support for mono audio output devices
1228 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1229 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1230 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1231 * the messages window remembers more lines
1232 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1233 * http and ogg stream output options
1234 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1237 * new skinnable interface
1238 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1240 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1241 * support for FLAC audio format
1242 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1244 * network tab in the interface
1245 * "apply" handling in preferences
1248 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1249 ---------------------------------
1252 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1253 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1254 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1255 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1257 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1258 * DTS S/PDIF support
1261 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1262 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1263 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1264 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1267 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1268 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1271 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1274 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1277 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1279 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1280 * rc interface is now fully useable
1281 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1284 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1285 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1286 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1287 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1288 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1290 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1291 * support for mouse gestures
1292 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1295 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1296 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1299 * improved ID3 tag detection
1300 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1301 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1302 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1304 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1307 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1308 ---------------------------------
1311 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1312 English was set as the preferred language
1315 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1316 --------------------------------
1319 * new mouse gesture interface
1320 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1324 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1325 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1326 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1329 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1330 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1334 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1337 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1338 without the user consent
1341 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1343 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1344 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1345 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1348 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1349 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1350 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1351 * playlist enhancements
1352 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1353 * new step forward/step backward commands
1354 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1355 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1356 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1359 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1360 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1361 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1364 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1365 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1368 * native video output is working again
1369 * only commandline interface support
1370 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1373 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1374 --------------------------------
1377 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1378 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1379 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1380 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1381 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1382 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1383 and A/52 streams are supported)
1384 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1389 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1390 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1391 * VCD entry points support
1392 * VCD image file support
1395 * support for *.asf format
1396 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1397 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1398 * support for ogg encapsulation
1399 * support for raw DV format
1400 * support for *.wav format
1401 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1404 Stream discovery & playlists:
1405 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1406 * support for .m3u file format
1407 * support for .asx file format
1408 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1411 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1412 (only available with the .avi demux)
1413 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1414 * support for raw PCM data
1415 * support for Cinepak video codec
1416 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1417 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1418 * support for Xvid codec
1419 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1420 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1421 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1423 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1425 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1428 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1431 * new WxWindows interface
1432 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1433 device and the channels configuration
1434 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1435 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1436 format that VLC can play
1437 * new swedish translation
1438 * enhancements of the playlist window
1439 * new messages window to see debug info
1440 * fixed a few crashes
1443 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1444 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1445 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1446 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working