1 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
11 * Multiple files are supported from RAR files
12 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
13 * DVB-S scanning support
14 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
15 * Support for VDR recordings
16 * Blu-Ray integration with libbluray
19 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
22 * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib).
23 * Ogg seeking improvements
26 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
27 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements
28 * Qt: port to Mac platform
31 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
34 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
37 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
40 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
41 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
42 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
45 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streamin (iphone-stuff),
46 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
47 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
48 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
49 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
50 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
53 * New Armenian translation
56 * New capabilities for libVLC:
57 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
60 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
61 --------------------------------
64 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
66 * Fix folders opening from the interface
69 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
70 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
73 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
74 --------------------------------
77 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
78 * fix for podcasts parsing
79 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
82 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
83 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
86 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
87 * fix m3u playlists exports
90 * fix video autoresize behaviour
93 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
96 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
99 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
102 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
105 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
106 --------------------------------
109 * Avformat fps displaying fix
110 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
113 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
114 of mono streams, especially on Windows
117 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
118 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
119 * fix console output encoding
121 Interface and extensions:
122 * Youtube and other scripts updates
123 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
126 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
127 --------------------------------
130 * New capabilities for libVLC:
131 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
132 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
133 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
134 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
135 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
136 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
137 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
138 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
139 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
140 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
141 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
142 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
143 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
144 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
145 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
149 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
150 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
151 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
152 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
153 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
156 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
159 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
160 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
161 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
165 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
168 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
169 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
170 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
173 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
174 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
175 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
176 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
179 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
180 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
183 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
184 --------------------------------
186 Important changes for users:
187 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
188 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
190 Important changes for packagers:
191 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
192 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
193 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
194 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
195 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
197 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
199 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
200 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
201 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
202 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
203 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
206 * Support for the sftp protocol
207 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
208 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
209 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
210 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
211 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
214 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
215 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
216 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
218 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
219 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
220 * Invmem module improvements
221 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
222 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
223 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
224 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
225 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
226 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
227 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
228 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
229 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
230 * Support for VP8 codec
231 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
234 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
235 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
236 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
237 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
238 * Various EGP improvements
239 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
240 * Metadata and cover art improvements
243 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
244 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
245 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
246 * Podcast images are now displayed
249 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
250 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
251 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
252 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
253 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
254 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
255 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
256 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
257 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
258 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
259 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
262 * New content extensions lua framework
265 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
266 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
267 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
268 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
269 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
270 * NEON assembly audio converter module
271 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
274 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
275 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
276 * Service discovery based on libudev
277 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
280 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
281 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
282 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
283 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
284 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
285 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
286 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
289 * New smem module, streaming to memory
290 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
291 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
294 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
296 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
297 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
300 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
303 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
304 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
305 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
306 by Andy Matuschak et al.
307 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
308 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
309 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
312 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
313 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
316 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
317 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
318 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
322 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
323 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
324 * Improved Solaris port
327 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
328 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
331 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
332 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
333 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
334 * transrate: broken since too long
335 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
336 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
337 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
338 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
339 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
340 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
341 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
342 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
343 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
344 * cddax: use cdda instead.
345 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
346 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
347 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
348 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
351 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
352 --------------------------------
355 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
357 Decoders/Packetizers:
358 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
361 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
362 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
363 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
364 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
365 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
368 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
369 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
372 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
373 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
376 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
377 and Walloon translations updated
378 * Sinhala translation started
381 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
382 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
385 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
386 --------------------------------
389 * SubRip extra styles improvements
390 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
393 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
396 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
397 increase performance and fix x264 issues
400 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
401 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
402 Russian, Slovak translation updates
403 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
406 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
407 --------------------------------
410 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
411 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
414 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
415 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
418 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
419 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
422 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
425 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
426 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
429 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
430 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
433 * New Walloon translation
434 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
437 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
438 --------------------------------
441 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
442 regressions in most popular drivers
443 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
446 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
447 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
448 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
451 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
452 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
455 * Update for appletrailers lua script
456 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
457 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
458 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
459 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
462 * New udev module for linux
465 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
468 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
471 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
472 --------------------------------
475 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
476 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
477 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
480 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
481 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
484 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
485 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
488 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
491 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
492 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
493 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
494 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
497 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
498 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
499 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
500 - no support for Goom and SDL
501 - limited text rendering support
502 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
505 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
506 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
507 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
508 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
509 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
510 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
511 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
512 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
513 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
517 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
520 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
523 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
524 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
525 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
526 Arabic and French translation updates
529 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
530 --------------------------------
533 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
534 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
535 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
536 * Fix Dailymotion access script
537 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
538 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
541 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
542 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
545 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
546 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
547 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
550 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
553 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
554 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
557 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
558 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
559 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
560 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
561 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
562 * Fix various crashes
565 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
567 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
570 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
571 ---------------------------------
575 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
576 See 'Access:' for more info.
577 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
580 * Instantaneous pausing
581 * Frame-by-Frame playback
582 * Finer speed control
583 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
584 * Timeshift for most medias
585 * RTSP trickplay support
586 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
589 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
590 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
591 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
592 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
593 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
594 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
595 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
596 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
597 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
598 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
601 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
602 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
603 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
604 * Metadata for mod files are supported
605 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
606 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
607 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
610 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
611 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
614 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
615 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
616 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
617 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
618 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
619 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
620 * DVB scanning on linux
621 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
622 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
623 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
624 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
625 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
626 * MTP device access on Unix
627 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
628 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
631 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
632 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
633 Windows and Mac OS X.
636 * Export the playlist in HTML
637 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
638 * Better metadata handling and reading
640 Linux/Windows interface:
641 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
642 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
643 * Recently played items list
644 * Interface toolbar customizations
645 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
648 - Improvements on many dialogs
649 - New dialog for plugins listing
650 - Fixed-size mode for videos
651 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
652 * Better integration in GTK environments
655 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
656 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
657 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
658 * Additional usability improvements
661 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
662 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
663 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
664 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
665 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
668 * New Maemo port with:
669 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
670 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
673 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
676 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
677 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
678 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
679 * Support for latest iSight models
682 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
683 * Surround support for PulseAudio
686 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
687 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
688 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
689 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
690 The old image video output has been removed.
691 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
692 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
695 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
703 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
704 --------------------------------------
710 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
711 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
712 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
713 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
714 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
715 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
716 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
718 Various fixes to the following modules:
721 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
722 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
725 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
730 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
731 ---------------------------------
734 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
735 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
738 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
739 ---------------------------------
742 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
745 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
748 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
749 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
750 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
751 main controller window.
752 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
755 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
760 * Updates of other localizations
763 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
764 * Lots of small bugfixes.
765 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
766 * Telnet fixes on Windows
767 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
770 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
771 ---------------------------------
774 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
776 Bunch of small bugfixes.
779 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
780 --------------------------------
785 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
786 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
789 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
790 --------------------------------
792 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
793 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
796 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
799 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
800 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
803 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
804 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
807 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
808 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
809 * Various fixed in playlist
812 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
815 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
818 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
819 ------------------------------------
821 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
822 * Fixes several memory leaks.
825 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
826 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
827 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
830 * Stability fix for the video output.
833 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
834 --------------------------------
837 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
838 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
839 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
840 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
841 * Fixed update system bugs
842 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
845 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
846 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
847 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
848 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
849 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
850 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
851 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
852 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
853 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
854 modern Mac OS X versions
857 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
858 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
860 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
861 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
864 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
865 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
866 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
867 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
868 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
869 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
872 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
873 --------------------------------
875 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
876 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
880 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
881 --------------------------------
883 * Multiple bug fixes.
886 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
887 ---------------------------------
891 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
892 recent to work correctly
893 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
894 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
895 edit the ".hosts" file.
896 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
897 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
898 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
899 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
900 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
901 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
902 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
903 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
904 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
905 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
906 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
907 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
908 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
909 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
910 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
911 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
912 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
913 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
914 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
915 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
916 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
917 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
918 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
919 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
920 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
921 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
922 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
923 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
924 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
925 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
926 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
927 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
928 and postproc modules.
929 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
930 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
931 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
932 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
934 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
936 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
937 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
939 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
940 * Glide video output module has been removed.
946 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
948 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
949 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
952 * Vastly improved playlist support:
953 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
955 * Shoutcast TV listings
956 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
958 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
959 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
961 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
964 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
965 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
966 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
967 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
968 * JACK audio input support
969 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
970 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
971 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
972 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
973 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
974 * Experimental EyeTV access module
975 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
976 (available as a separate download).
977 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
979 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
980 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
981 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
983 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
984 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
987 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
988 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
989 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
990 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
992 * APEv1/2 tags support
993 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
994 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
996 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
997 * TiVo Series 2 support
998 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1003 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1004 * Flash Screen Video support
1005 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1006 * DosBox Capture support
1007 * Karl Morton's Video support
1008 * limited atrac3 support
1010 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1011 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1012 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1013 * H.264 PAFF support
1014 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1015 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1016 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1017 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1018 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1021 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1022 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1023 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1024 * AQTitle subtitles support
1025 * MKV USF subtitles support
1026 * HTML-based subtitles support
1027 * MPSub subtitles support
1028 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1029 * MPL2 subtitles support
1030 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1031 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1032 * Realtext subtitle support
1033 * DKS subtitle support
1034 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1035 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1038 * Flash Screen Video support
1039 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1041 Video outputs and filters:
1042 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1043 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1044 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1045 * New puzzle video output filter
1046 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1047 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1049 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1050 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1051 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1052 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1053 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1054 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1055 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1056 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1057 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1058 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1059 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1060 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1061 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1062 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1064 Audio outputs and filters:
1065 * Replay gain support
1066 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1067 new scaletempo audio filter)
1068 * New spatializer audio filter
1069 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1072 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1073 * New RTP payload formats:
1074 * Speex voice audio codec
1075 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1076 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1077 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1078 * DCCP transport for RTP
1079 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1084 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1085 end-user suitable way.
1086 * Improved user interaction
1087 * Improved mouse gestures
1088 * Vastly improved Update checker
1089 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1091 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1092 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1094 * Improved video output features
1095 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1096 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1097 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1098 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1099 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1101 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1102 if libncursesw is available.
1103 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1104 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1105 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1107 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1108 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1109 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1110 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1111 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1112 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1113 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1114 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1117 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1118 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1119 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1122 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1123 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1124 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1125 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1126 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1127 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1130 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1131 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1141 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1142 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1143 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1146 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1147 ----------------------------------
1150 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1153 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1154 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1155 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1156 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1157 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1158 * Updated Polish translation
1161 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1162 ----------------------------------
1165 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1166 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1167 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1170 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1171 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1172 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1173 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1174 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1175 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1176 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1177 to an unexpected application termination
1178 * New Serbian translation
1179 * Updated Romanian translation
1182 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1183 ----------------------------------
1186 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1187 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1188 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1189 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1190 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1191 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1192 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1193 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1196 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1197 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1198 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1199 * Fixed AAC resampling
1200 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1201 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1204 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1205 ----------------------------------
1208 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1209 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1210 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1211 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1212 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1215 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1216 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1217 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1218 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1219 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1222 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1223 ----------------------------------
1226 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1227 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1230 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1231 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1232 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1233 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1235 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1239 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1242 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1245 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1248 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1251 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1252 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1253 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1254 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1255 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1257 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1258 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1259 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1260 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1263 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1266 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1267 ----------------------------------
1270 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1271 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1272 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1274 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1275 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1277 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1278 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1281 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1283 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1284 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1285 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1286 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1287 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1288 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1289 two different movies
1290 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1291 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1292 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1295 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1298 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1299 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1300 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1301 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1304 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1305 ----------------------------------
1307 Various bugfixes, notably:
1308 * Windows Vista compatibility
1309 * Cropping in Direct3D
1310 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1311 * RSS filter string overflow
1313 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1315 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1316 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1319 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1320 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1323 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1326 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1329 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1332 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1333 ----------------------------------
1335 Various bugfixes, notably:
1336 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1337 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1338 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1339 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1340 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1341 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1344 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1345 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1348 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1350 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1351 * Diverse usability improvements
1352 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1353 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1354 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1357 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1358 ---------------------------------
1360 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1361 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1364 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1367 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1368 --------------------------------
1371 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1374 * Support for RTSP authentication
1375 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1376 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1377 * ATSC support for DVB input
1378 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1379 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1380 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1383 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1384 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1385 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1386 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1387 * Matroska WavPack support
1388 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1389 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1390 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1393 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1394 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1395 * Improved libcaca support
1399 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1400 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1402 * Systray support in skins
1404 * Support for Apple Remote control
1405 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1406 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1407 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1408 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1410 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1413 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1414 Windows 9x/ME users:
1415 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1416 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1417 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1418 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1419 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1421 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1422 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1431 * Updates to the libvlc API
1432 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1435 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1436 --------------------------------
1439 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1440 * Support for downloading updates
1444 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1445 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1446 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1447 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1449 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1450 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1451 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1454 * Cook (Real audio) support
1456 Playlist / Services discovery:
1457 * XSPF playlist support
1459 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1462 * New JACK audio output
1465 * New video filters:
1466 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1467 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1468 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1469 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1470 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1471 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1474 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1477 * System to inform the user and request information
1478 - HTTP authentication
1482 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1483 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1484 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1487 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1488 - Improved playlist handling
1489 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1491 - Embedded Video output
1492 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1493 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1494 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1495 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1496 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1498 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1499 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1502 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1505 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1506 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1507 * Growl "Now playing" support
1510 * Ability to log to syslog
1511 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1514 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1516 * A bit more automatic testing
1519 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1520 ---------------------------------
1523 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1524 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1527 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1528 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1531 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1534 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1535 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1541 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1544 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1545 --------------------------------
1548 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1552 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1553 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1554 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1557 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1558 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1559 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1560 * GnomeVFS input module
1561 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1562 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1565 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1566 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1567 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1570 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1571 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1577 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1578 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1581 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1582 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1583 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1586 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1588 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1589 - New extended controls panel
1590 - New bookmarks window
1591 - Fixed playlist sorting
1592 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1594 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1595 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1596 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1597 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1601 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1602 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1604 - Include macro to include other files
1608 * Should now work outside IE as well
1611 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1614 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1615 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1618 The following languages were added:
1622 * Simplified Chinese
1623 The following languages were re-added:
1627 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1628 --------------------------------
1631 * Rewrite of the playlist
1633 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1634 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1635 * Preferences improvements:
1636 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1637 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1639 * Core image manipulation support
1640 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1641 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1642 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1643 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1644 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1645 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1646 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1647 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1648 * Access filter architecture
1649 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1650 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1654 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1655 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1656 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1657 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1658 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1659 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1660 * Massive Matroska improvements
1661 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1663 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1664 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1665 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1666 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1667 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1669 Decoders / Encoders:
1670 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1671 * PNG decoder/encoder
1672 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1673 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1676 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1679 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1680 * Brand new SAP module
1681 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1682 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1683 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1684 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1685 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1686 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1690 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1693 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1694 * Image file video output (png)
1695 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1696 * Improvements to wall video filter
1697 * Support for font color and opacity
1703 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1704 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1705 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1709 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1710 - Improved preferences
1711 - Improvements to the wizard
1712 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1714 - Redesigned playlist
1715 - Improved preferences
1717 - Support for multiple actions
1720 - Support for the new playlist system
1722 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1725 * Screensaver disabling fix
1726 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1727 * Support for no-decoration windows
1730 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1731 * The OpenGL video output is back
1732 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1733 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1734 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1735 is not yet available in the new module
1736 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1739 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1748 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1751 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1754 The following languages were added:
1760 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1761 --------------------------------
1764 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1765 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1768 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1769 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1770 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1773 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1776 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1779 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1782 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1783 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1784 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1788 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1790 * Support of playlist group announcement
1793 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1794 --------------------------------
1797 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1798 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1799 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1800 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1801 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1802 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1805 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1806 (Stream your desktop)
1807 * Improved DVD support:
1808 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1809 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1810 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1811 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1812 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1813 (selection of titles/chapters).
1816 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1817 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1818 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1819 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1820 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1821 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1822 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1823 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1824 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1825 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1828 * G.726 audio support
1829 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1830 * MPEG-4 text support
1831 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1832 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1833 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1837 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1838 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1839 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1840 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1841 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1842 * DVB subtitles encoder
1843 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1844 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1846 * Text track muxing for mp4
1847 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1848 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1849 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1850 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1851 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1852 * Improved ASF muxer
1854 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1855 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1856 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1859 * New audio equalizer filter
1860 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1861 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1862 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1863 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1866 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1867 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1868 with support for effects.
1869 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1870 - New filters can be streamed.
1871 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1872 - Centralized scaling and blending
1874 - "time", to display current time
1875 - "marq", to display a marquee
1878 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1879 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1880 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1881 * A few skins2 improvements
1882 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1883 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1884 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1885 * Improved CORBA control module
1888 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1889 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1890 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1893 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1894 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1895 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1898 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1899 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1900 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1901 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1902 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1905 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1908 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1909 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1912 * Server/client network synchronization module
1913 * VBrick streams fully supported
1914 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1918 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1919 --------------------------------
1922 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1923 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1924 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1925 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1928 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1929 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1930 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1931 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1932 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1933 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1934 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1937 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1938 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1939 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1940 * Improved directory access module.
1941 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1942 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1943 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1944 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1945 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1948 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1949 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1950 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1953 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1954 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1955 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1958 * Improved session announcement system.
1959 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1960 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1961 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1962 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1963 * Improved transrater.
1964 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1965 * New configuration system.
1966 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1969 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1970 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1971 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1972 * Supports scheduling.
1973 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1974 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1977 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1978 - Ability to embed video output.
1979 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1980 - Lots of improvements.
1981 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1982 - New design and set of icons.
1983 - Ability to embed video output.
1984 - Support for hotkeys.
1985 - Support for bookmarks.
1987 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1988 - Better hotkeys handling.
1991 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1992 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1993 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1994 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1997 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1998 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1999 * Improved Windows installer.
2005 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2006 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2009 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2010 ---------------------------------
2013 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2014 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2017 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2018 --------------------------------
2021 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2022 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2025 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2026 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2027 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2028 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2031 * Internal improvments
2032 * Improved import/export
2035 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2037 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2038 small and strange formats.
2040 * New MOD audio demux.
2041 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2042 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2043 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2044 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2047 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2048 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2049 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2055 * New opengl video output plugin.
2058 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2059 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2062 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2063 --------------------------------
2066 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2067 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2068 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2069 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2070 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2071 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2072 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2073 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2076 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2081 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2082 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2083 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2084 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2085 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2086 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2087 * Better Icecast support.
2088 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2089 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2092 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2093 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2094 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2095 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2096 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2097 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2098 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2101 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2102 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2103 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2104 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2105 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2106 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2107 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2108 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2109 * Preliminary RTP support.
2110 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2115 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2116 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2118 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2119 - Improvements and help in preferences
2120 - New streaming wizard
2121 - Revised Disc Open menu
2123 - Improvements of the standard pages
2124 - Support for new commands
2125 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2128 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2129 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2132 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2133 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2134 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2135 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2136 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2137 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2138 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2139 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2140 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2143 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2145 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2146 * Support for Panther.
2147 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2148 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2151 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2152 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2153 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2154 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2155 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2156 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2157 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2158 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2161 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2162 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2163 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2166 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2169 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2170 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2171 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2172 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2175 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2176 --------------------------------
2179 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2182 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2183 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2186 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2187 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2190 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2193 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2194 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2197 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2200 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2203 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2204 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2208 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2209 --------------------------------
2212 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2213 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2217 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2218 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2219 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2221 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2222 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2225 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2228 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2231 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2232 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2236 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2237 --------------------------------
2240 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2241 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2245 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2246 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2247 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2248 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2249 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2252 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2253 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2254 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2257 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2258 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2259 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2262 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2263 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2264 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2265 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2266 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2269 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2270 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2271 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2274 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2277 * Improved build system.
2278 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2279 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2280 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2281 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2284 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2285 --------------------------------
2288 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2291 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2292 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2293 * Video 4 Linux support
2294 * CD Digital Audio support
2295 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2298 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2299 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2300 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2301 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2304 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2305 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2306 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2307 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2308 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2309 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2310 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2313 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2314 * New HTTP remote control interface
2317 * 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.
2318 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2319 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2320 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2323 * New reset option for the preferences
2324 * You can set your language in the prefences
2325 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2326 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2327 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2328 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2331 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2332 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2333 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2336 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2337 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2338 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2339 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2340 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2341 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2342 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2343 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2344 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2345 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2348 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2349 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2350 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2351 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2352 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2353 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2354 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2357 * Interface localization
2358 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2359 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2360 * New full-featured Preferences window
2363 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2364 --------------------------------
2367 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2368 * support for skins at the interface level
2369 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2370 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2371 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2372 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2373 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2376 * fixed HTTP redirects
2377 * support for opening an entire directory
2378 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2379 * new video4linux access plug-in
2380 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2383 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2384 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2385 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2388 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2389 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2390 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2391 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2392 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2393 * new codec for raw I420 video
2394 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2397 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2398 (although it still misses some important features)
2399 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2402 * new HTTP output support
2403 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2404 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2407 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2410 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2413 * reorderable playlist
2414 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2415 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2416 * support for mono audio output devices
2417 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2418 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2419 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2420 * the messages window remembers more lines
2421 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2422 * http and ogg stream output options
2423 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2426 * new skinnable interface
2427 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2429 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2430 * support for FLAC audio format
2431 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2433 * network tab in the interface
2434 * "apply" handling in preferences
2437 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2438 ---------------------------------
2441 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2442 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2443 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2444 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2446 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2447 * DTS S/PDIF support
2450 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2451 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2452 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2453 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2456 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2457 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2460 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2463 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2466 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2468 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2469 * rc interface is now fully useable
2470 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2473 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2474 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2475 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2476 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2477 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2479 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2480 * support for mouse gestures
2481 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2484 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2485 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2488 * improved ID3 tag detection
2489 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2490 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2491 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2493 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2496 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2497 ---------------------------------
2500 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2501 English was set as the preferred language
2504 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2505 --------------------------------
2508 * new mouse gesture interface
2509 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2513 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2514 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2515 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2518 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2519 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2523 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2526 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2527 without the user consent
2530 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2532 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2533 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2534 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2537 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2538 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2539 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2540 * playlist enhancements
2541 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2542 * new step forward/step backward commands
2543 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2544 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2545 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2548 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2549 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2550 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2553 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2554 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2557 * native video output is working again
2558 * only commandline interface support
2559 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2562 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2563 --------------------------------
2566 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2567 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2568 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2569 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2570 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2571 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2572 and A/52 streams are supported)
2573 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2578 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2579 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2580 * VCD entry points support
2581 * VCD image file support
2584 * support for *.asf format
2585 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2586 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2587 * support for ogg encapsulation
2588 * support for raw DV format
2589 * support for *.wav format
2590 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2593 Stream discovery & playlists:
2594 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2595 * support for .m3u file format
2596 * support for .asx file format
2597 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2600 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2601 (only available with the .avi demux)
2602 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2603 * support for raw PCM data
2604 * support for Cinepak video codec
2605 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2606 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2607 * support for Xvid codec
2608 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2609 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2610 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2612 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2614 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2617 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2620 * new WxWindows interface
2621 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2622 device and the channels configuration
2623 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2624 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2625 format that VLC can play
2626 * new swedish translation
2627 * enhancements of the playlist window
2628 * new messages window to see debug info
2629 * fixed a few crashes
2632 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2633 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2634 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2635 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working