1 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
8 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
9 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio
12 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
15 * WPL playlist support
16 * ZPL playlist support
19 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
22 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
25 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
26 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
29 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
36 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
37 --------------------------------
40 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
41 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
42 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
43 * Fix Dailymotion access script
44 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
45 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
48 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
49 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
52 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
53 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
54 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
57 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
60 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
61 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
64 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
65 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
66 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
67 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
68 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
72 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
74 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
77 Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
78 ---------------------------------
82 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
83 See 'Access:' for more info.
84 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
87 * Instantaneous pausing
88 * Frame-by-Frame playback
90 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
91 * Timeshift for most medias
92 * RTSP trickplay support
93 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
96 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
97 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
98 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
99 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
100 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
101 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
102 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
103 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
104 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
105 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
108 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
109 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
110 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
111 * Metadata for mod files are supported
112 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
113 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
114 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
117 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
118 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
121 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
122 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
123 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
124 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
125 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
126 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
127 * DVB scanning on linux
128 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
129 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
130 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
131 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
132 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
133 * MTP device access on Unix
134 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
135 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
138 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
139 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
140 Windows and Mac OS X.
143 * Export the playlist in HTML
144 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
145 * Better metadata handling and reading
147 Linux/Windows interface:
148 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
149 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
150 * Recently played items list
151 * Interface toolbar customizations
152 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
155 - Improvements on many dialogs
156 - New dialog for plugins listing
157 - Fixed-size mode for videos
158 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
159 * Better integration in GTK environments
162 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
163 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
164 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
165 * Additional usability improvements
168 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
169 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
170 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
171 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
172 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
175 * New Maemo port with:
176 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
177 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
180 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
183 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
184 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
185 * Support for latest iSight models
188 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
189 * Surround support for PulseAudio
192 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
193 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
194 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
195 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
196 The old image video output has been removed.
197 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
198 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
201 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
204 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
205 ---------------------------------
208 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
209 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
212 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
213 ---------------------------------
216 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
219 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
222 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
223 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
224 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
225 main controller window.
226 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
229 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
234 * Updates of other localizations
237 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
238 * Lots of small bugfixes.
239 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
240 * Telnet fixes on Windows
241 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
243 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
244 ---------------------------------
247 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
249 Bunch of small bugfixes.
252 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
253 --------------------------------
258 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
259 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
262 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
263 --------------------------------
265 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
266 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
269 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
272 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
273 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
276 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
277 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
280 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
281 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
282 * Various fixed in playlist
285 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
288 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
291 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
292 ------------------------------------
294 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
295 * Fixes several memory leaks.
298 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
299 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
300 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
303 * Stability fix for the video output.
306 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
307 --------------------------------
310 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
311 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
312 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
313 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
314 * Fixed update system bugs
315 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
318 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
319 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
320 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
321 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
322 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
323 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
324 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
325 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
326 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
327 modern Mac OS X versions
330 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
331 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
333 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
334 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
337 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
338 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
339 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
340 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
341 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
342 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
345 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
346 --------------------------------
348 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
349 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
353 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
354 --------------------------------
356 * Multiple bug fixes.
359 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
360 ---------------------------------
364 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
365 recent to work correctly
366 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
367 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
368 edit the ".hosts" file.
369 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
370 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
371 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
372 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
373 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
374 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
375 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
376 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
377 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
378 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
379 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
380 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
381 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
382 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
383 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
384 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
385 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
386 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
387 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
388 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
389 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
390 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
391 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
392 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
393 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
394 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
395 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
396 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
397 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
398 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
399 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
400 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
401 and postproc modules.
402 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
403 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
404 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
405 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
407 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
409 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
410 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
412 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
413 * Glide video output module has been removed.
419 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
421 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
422 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
425 * Vastly improved playlist support:
426 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
428 * Shoutcast TV listings
429 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
431 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
432 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
434 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
437 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
438 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
439 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
440 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
441 * JACK audio input support
442 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
443 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
444 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
445 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
446 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
447 * Experimental EyeTV access module
448 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
449 (available as a separate download).
450 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
452 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
453 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
454 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
456 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
457 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
460 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
461 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
462 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
463 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
465 * APEv1/2 tags support
466 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
467 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
469 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
470 * TiVo Series 2 support
471 * CD+G karaoke Files support
476 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
477 * Flash Screen Video support
478 * CamStudio Screen Video support
479 * DosBox Capture support
480 * Karl Morton's Video support
481 * limited atrac3 support
483 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
484 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
485 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
487 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
488 * NellyMoser ASAO support
489 * APE (Monkey audio) support
490 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
491 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
494 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
495 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
496 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
497 * AQTitle subtitles support
498 * MKV USF subtitles support
499 * HTML-based subtitles support
500 * MPSub subtitles support
501 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
502 * MPL2 subtitles support
503 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
504 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
505 * Realtext subtitle support
506 * DKS subtitle support
507 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
508 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
511 * Flash Screen Video support
512 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
514 Video outputs and filters:
515 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
516 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
517 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
518 * New puzzle video output filter
519 * Re-written motion detection video filter
520 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
522 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
523 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
524 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
525 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
526 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
527 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
528 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
529 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
530 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
531 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
532 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
533 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
534 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
535 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
537 Audio outputs and filters:
538 * Replay gain support
539 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
540 new scaletempo audio filter)
541 * New spatializer audio filter
542 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
545 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
546 * New RTP payload formats:
547 * Speex voice audio codec
548 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
549 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
550 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
551 * DCCP transport for RTP
552 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
557 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
558 end-user suitable way.
559 * Improved user interaction
560 * Improved mouse gestures
561 * Vastly improved Update checker
562 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
564 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
565 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
567 * Improved video output features
568 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
569 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
570 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
571 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
572 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
574 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
575 if libncursesw is available.
576 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
577 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
578 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
580 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
581 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
582 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
583 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
584 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
585 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
586 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
587 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
590 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
591 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
592 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
595 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
596 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
597 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
598 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
599 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
600 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
603 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
604 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
614 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
615 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
616 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
619 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
620 ----------------------------------
623 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
626 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
627 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
628 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
629 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
630 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
631 * Updated Polish translation
634 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
635 ----------------------------------
638 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
639 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
640 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
643 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
644 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
645 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
646 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
647 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
648 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
649 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
650 to an unexpected application termination
651 * New Serbian translation
652 * Updated Romanian translation
655 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
656 ----------------------------------
659 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
660 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
661 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
662 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
663 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
664 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
665 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
666 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
669 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
670 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
671 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
672 * Fixed AAC resampling
673 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
674 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
677 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
678 ----------------------------------
681 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
682 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
683 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
684 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
685 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
688 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
689 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
690 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
691 * Close MMS access on network timeout
692 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
695 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
696 ----------------------------------
699 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
700 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
703 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
704 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
705 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
706 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
708 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
712 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
715 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
718 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
721 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
724 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
725 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
726 encoding on multi-cpu systems
727 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
728 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
730 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
731 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
732 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
733 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
736 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
739 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
740 ----------------------------------
743 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
744 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
745 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
747 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
748 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
750 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
751 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
754 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
756 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
757 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
758 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
759 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
760 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
761 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
763 * Support for current Ogg file formats
764 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
765 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
768 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
771 * The automatic updating facility was removed
772 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
773 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
774 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
777 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
778 ----------------------------------
780 Various bugfixes, notably:
781 * Windows Vista compatibility
782 * Cropping in Direct3D
783 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
784 * RSS filter string overflow
786 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
788 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
789 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
792 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
793 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
796 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
799 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
802 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
805 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
806 ----------------------------------
808 Various bugfixes, notably:
809 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
810 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
811 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
812 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
813 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
814 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
817 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
818 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
821 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
823 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
824 * Diverse usability improvements
825 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
826 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
827 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
830 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
831 ---------------------------------
834 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
837 * Fullscreen controller improvements
840 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
841 --------------------------------
844 * Shoutcast TV listings support
847 * Support for RTSP authentication
848 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
849 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
850 * ATSC support for DVB input
851 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
852 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
853 * Improved support for Flash Video files
856 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
857 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
858 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
859 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
860 * Matroska WavPack support
861 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
862 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
863 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
866 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
867 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
868 * Improved libcaca support
872 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
873 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
875 * Systray support in skins
877 * Support for Apple Remote control
878 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
879 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
880 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
881 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
883 * Notifications using notification-daemon
886 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
888 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
889 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
890 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
891 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
892 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
894 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
895 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
904 * Updates to the libvlc API
905 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
908 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
909 --------------------------------
912 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
913 * Support for downloading updates
917 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
918 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
919 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
920 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
922 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
923 * Improved subtitles encoding support
924 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
927 * Cook (Real audio) support
929 Playlist / Services discovery:
930 * XSPF playlist support
932 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
935 * New JACK audio output
939 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
940 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
941 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
942 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
943 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
944 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
947 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
950 * System to inform the user and request information
951 - HTTP authentication
955 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
956 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
957 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
960 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
961 - Improved playlist handling
962 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
964 - Embedded Video output
965 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
966 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
967 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
968 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
969 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
971 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
972 - A bunch of new RPN functions
975 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
978 * Mac-Intel compatibility
979 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
980 * Growl "Now playing" support
983 * Ability to log to syslog
984 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
987 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
989 * A bit more automatic testing
992 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
993 ---------------------------------
996 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
997 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1000 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1001 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1004 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1007 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1008 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1014 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1017 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1018 --------------------------------
1021 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1025 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1026 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1027 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1030 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1031 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1032 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1033 * GnomeVFS input module
1034 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1035 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1038 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1039 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1040 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1043 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1044 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1050 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1051 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1054 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1055 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1056 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1059 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1061 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1062 - New extended controls panel
1063 - New bookmarks window
1064 - Fixed playlist sorting
1065 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1067 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1068 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1069 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1070 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1074 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1075 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1077 - Include macro to include other files
1081 * Should now work outside IE as well
1084 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1087 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1088 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1091 The following languages were added:
1095 * Simplified Chinese
1096 The following languages were re-added:
1100 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1101 --------------------------------
1104 * Rewrite of the playlist
1106 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1107 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1108 * Preferences improvements:
1109 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1110 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1112 * Core image manipulation support
1113 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1114 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1115 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1116 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1117 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1118 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1119 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1120 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1121 * Access filter architecture
1122 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1123 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1127 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1128 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1129 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1130 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1131 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1132 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1133 * Massive Matroska improvements
1134 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1136 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1137 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1138 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1139 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1140 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1142 Decoders / Encoders:
1143 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1144 * PNG decoder/encoder
1145 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1146 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1149 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1152 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1153 * Brand new SAP module
1154 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1155 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1156 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1157 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1158 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1159 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1163 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1166 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1167 * Image file video output (png)
1168 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1169 * Improvements to wall video filter
1170 * Support for font color and opacity
1176 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1177 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1178 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1182 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1183 - Improved preferences
1184 - Improvements to the wizard
1185 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1187 - Redesigned playlist
1188 - Improved preferences
1190 - Support for multiple actions
1193 - Support for the new playlist system
1195 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1198 * Screensaver disabling fix
1199 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1200 * Support for no-decoration windows
1203 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1204 * The OpenGL video output is back
1205 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1206 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1207 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1208 is not yet available in the new module
1209 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1212 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1221 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1224 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1227 The following languages were added:
1233 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1234 --------------------------------
1237 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1238 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1241 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1242 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1243 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1246 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1249 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1252 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1255 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1256 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1257 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1261 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1263 * Support of playlist group announcement
1266 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1267 --------------------------------
1270 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1271 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1272 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1273 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1274 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1275 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1278 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1279 (Stream your desktop)
1280 * Improved DVD support:
1281 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1282 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1283 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1284 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1285 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1286 (selection of titles/chapters).
1289 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1290 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1291 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1292 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1293 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1294 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1295 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1296 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1297 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1298 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1301 * G.726 audio support
1302 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1303 * MPEG-4 text support
1304 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1305 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1306 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1310 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1311 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1312 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1313 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1314 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1315 * DVB subtitles encoder
1316 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1317 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1319 * Text track muxing for mp4
1320 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1321 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1322 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1323 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1324 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1325 * Improved ASF muxer
1327 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1328 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1329 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1332 * New audio equalizer filter
1333 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1334 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1335 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1336 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1339 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1340 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1341 with support for effects.
1342 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1343 - New filters can be streamed.
1344 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1345 - Centralized scaling and blending
1347 - "time", to display current time
1348 - "marq", to display a marquee
1351 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1352 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1353 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1354 * A few skins2 improvements
1355 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1356 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1357 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1358 * Improved CORBA control module
1361 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1362 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1363 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1366 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1367 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1368 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1371 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1372 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1373 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1374 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1375 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1378 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1381 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1382 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1385 * Server/client network synchronization module
1386 * VBrick streams fully supported
1387 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1391 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1392 --------------------------------
1395 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1396 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1397 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1398 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1401 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1402 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1403 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1404 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1405 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1406 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1407 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1410 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1411 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1412 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1413 * Improved directory access module.
1414 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1415 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1416 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1417 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1418 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1421 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1422 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1423 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1426 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1427 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1428 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1431 * Improved session announcement system.
1432 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1433 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1434 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1435 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1436 * Improved transrater.
1437 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1438 * New configuration system.
1439 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1442 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1443 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1444 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1445 * Supports scheduling.
1446 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1447 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1450 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1451 - Ability to embed video output.
1452 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1453 - Lots of improvements.
1454 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1455 - New design and set of icons.
1456 - Ability to embed video output.
1457 - Support for hotkeys.
1458 - Support for bookmarks.
1460 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1461 - Better hotkeys handling.
1464 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1465 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1466 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1467 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1470 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1471 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1472 * Improved Windows installer.
1478 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1479 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1482 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1483 ---------------------------------
1486 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1487 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1490 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1491 --------------------------------
1494 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1495 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1498 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1499 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1500 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1501 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1504 * Internal improvments
1505 * Improved import/export
1508 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1510 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1511 small and strange formats.
1513 * New MOD audio demux.
1514 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1515 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1516 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1517 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1520 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1521 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1522 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1528 * New opengl video output plugin.
1531 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1532 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1535 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1536 --------------------------------
1539 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1540 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1541 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1542 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1543 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1544 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1545 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1546 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1549 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1554 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1555 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1556 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1557 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1558 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1559 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1560 * Better Icecast support.
1561 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1562 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1565 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1566 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1567 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1568 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1569 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1570 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1571 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1574 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1575 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1576 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1577 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1578 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1579 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1580 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1581 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1582 * Preliminary RTP support.
1583 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1588 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1589 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1591 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1592 - Improvements and help in preferences
1593 - New streaming wizard
1594 - Revised Disc Open menu
1596 - Improvements of the standard pages
1597 - Support for new commands
1598 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1601 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1602 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1605 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1606 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1607 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1608 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1609 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1610 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1611 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1612 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1613 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1616 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1618 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1619 * Support for Panther.
1620 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1621 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1624 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1625 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1626 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1627 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1628 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1629 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1630 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1631 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1634 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1635 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1636 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1639 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1642 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1643 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1644 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1645 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1648 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1649 --------------------------------
1652 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1655 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1656 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1659 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1660 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1663 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1666 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1667 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1670 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1673 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1676 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1677 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1681 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1682 --------------------------------
1685 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1686 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1690 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1691 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1692 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1694 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1695 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1698 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1701 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1704 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1705 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1709 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1710 --------------------------------
1713 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1714 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1718 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1719 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1720 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1721 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1722 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1725 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1726 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1727 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1730 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1731 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1732 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1735 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1736 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1737 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1738 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1739 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1742 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1743 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1744 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1747 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1750 * Improved build system.
1751 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1752 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1753 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1754 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1757 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1758 --------------------------------
1761 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1764 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1765 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1766 * Video 4 Linux support
1767 * CD Digital Audio support
1768 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1771 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1772 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1773 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1774 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1777 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1778 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1779 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1780 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1781 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1782 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1783 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1786 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1787 * New HTTP remote control interface
1790 * 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.
1791 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1792 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1793 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1796 * New reset option for the preferences
1797 * You can set your language in the prefences
1798 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1799 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1800 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1801 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1804 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1805 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1806 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1809 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1810 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1811 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1812 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1813 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1814 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1815 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1816 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1817 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1818 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1821 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1822 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1823 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1824 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1825 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1826 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1827 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1830 * Interface localization
1831 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1832 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1833 * New full-featured Preferences window
1836 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1837 --------------------------------
1840 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1841 * support for skins at the interface level
1842 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1843 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1844 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1845 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1846 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1849 * fixed HTTP redirects
1850 * support for opening an entire directory
1851 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1852 * new video4linux access plug-in
1853 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1856 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1857 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1858 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1861 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1862 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1863 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1864 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1865 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1866 * new codec for raw I420 video
1867 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1870 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1871 (although it still misses some important features)
1872 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1875 * new HTTP output support
1876 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1877 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1880 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1883 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1886 * reorderable playlist
1887 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1888 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1889 * support for mono audio output devices
1890 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1891 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1892 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1893 * the messages window remembers more lines
1894 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1895 * http and ogg stream output options
1896 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1899 * new skinnable interface
1900 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1902 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1903 * support for FLAC audio format
1904 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1906 * network tab in the interface
1907 * "apply" handling in preferences
1910 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1911 ---------------------------------
1914 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1915 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1916 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1917 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1919 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1920 * DTS S/PDIF support
1923 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1924 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1925 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1926 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1929 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1930 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1933 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1936 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1939 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1941 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1942 * rc interface is now fully useable
1943 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1946 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1947 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1948 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1949 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1950 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1952 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1953 * support for mouse gestures
1954 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1957 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1958 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1961 * improved ID3 tag detection
1962 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1963 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1964 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1966 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1969 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1970 ---------------------------------
1973 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1974 English was set as the preferred language
1977 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1978 --------------------------------
1981 * new mouse gesture interface
1982 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1986 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1987 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1988 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1991 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1992 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1996 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1999 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2000 without the user consent
2003 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2005 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2006 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2007 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2010 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2011 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2012 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2013 * playlist enhancements
2014 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2015 * new step forward/step backward commands
2016 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2017 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2018 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2021 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2022 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2023 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2026 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2027 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2030 * native video output is working again
2031 * only commandline interface support
2032 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2035 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2036 --------------------------------
2039 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2040 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2041 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2042 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2043 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2044 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2045 and A/52 streams are supported)
2046 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2051 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2052 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2053 * VCD entry points support
2054 * VCD image file support
2057 * support for *.asf format
2058 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2059 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2060 * support for ogg encapsulation
2061 * support for raw DV format
2062 * support for *.wav format
2063 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2066 Stream discovery & playlists:
2067 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2068 * support for .m3u file format
2069 * support for .asx file format
2070 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2073 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2074 (only available with the .avi demux)
2075 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2076 * support for raw PCM data
2077 * support for Cinepak video codec
2078 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2079 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2080 * support for Xvid codec
2081 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2082 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2083 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2085 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2087 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2090 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2093 * new WxWindows interface
2094 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2095 device and the channels configuration
2096 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2097 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2098 format that VLC can play
2099 * new swedish translation
2100 * enhancements of the playlist window
2101 * new messages window to see debug info
2102 * fixed a few crashes
2105 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2106 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2107 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2108 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working