1 Changes between 0.9.8a and 1.0.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
6 * Frame-By-Frame Support
8 * RTSP trickplay support
11 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
14 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
15 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on
19 * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
20 * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) support
22 * Blu-Ray Linear PCM support
23 * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) support
26 * Dirac encoding support using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
29 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
30 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
31 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
33 Linux/Windows interface:
34 * Recently played items list
37 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
40 * New Maemo port with:
41 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
42 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
45 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
48 * support to Export the playlist in HTML
49 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
52 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
53 * Surround support for PulseAudio
56 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
57 ---------------------------------
60 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
62 Bunch of small bugfixes.
65 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
66 --------------------------------
71 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
72 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
75 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
76 --------------------------------
78 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
79 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
82 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
85 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
86 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
89 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
90 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
93 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
94 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
95 * Various fixed in playlist
98 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
101 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
104 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
105 ------------------------------------
107 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
108 * Fixes several memory leaks.
111 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
112 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
113 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
116 * Stability fix for the video output.
119 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
120 --------------------------------
123 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
124 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
125 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
126 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
127 * Fixed update system bugs
128 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
131 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
132 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
133 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
134 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
135 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
136 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
137 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
138 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
139 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
140 modern Mac OS X versions
143 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
144 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
146 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
147 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
150 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
151 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
152 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
153 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
154 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
155 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
158 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
159 --------------------------------
161 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
162 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
166 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
167 --------------------------------
169 * Multiple bug fixes.
172 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
173 ---------------------------------
177 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
178 recent to work correctly
179 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
180 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
181 edit the ".hosts" file.
182 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
183 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
184 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
185 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
186 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
187 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
188 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
189 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
190 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
191 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
192 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
193 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
194 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
195 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
196 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
197 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
198 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
199 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
200 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
201 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
202 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
203 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
204 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
205 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
206 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
207 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
208 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
209 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
210 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
211 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
212 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
213 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
214 and postproc modules.
215 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
216 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
217 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
218 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
220 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
222 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
223 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
225 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
226 * Glide video output module has been removed.
232 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
234 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
235 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
238 * Vastly improved playlist support:
239 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
241 * Shoutcast TV listings
242 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
244 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
245 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
247 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
250 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
251 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
252 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
253 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
254 * JACK audio input support
255 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
256 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
257 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
258 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
259 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
260 * Experimental EyeTV access module
261 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
262 (available as a separate download).
263 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
265 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
266 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
267 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
269 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
270 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
273 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
274 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
275 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
276 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
278 * APEv1/2 tags support
279 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
280 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
282 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
283 * TiVo Series 2 support
284 * CD+G karaoke Files support
289 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
290 * Flash Screen Video support
291 * CamStudio Screen Video support
292 * DosBox Capture support
293 * Karl Morton's Video support
294 * limited atrac3 support
296 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
297 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
298 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
300 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
301 * NellyMoser ASAO support
302 * APE (Monkey audio) support
303 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
304 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
307 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
308 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
309 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
310 * AQTitle subtitles support
311 * MKV USF subtitles support
312 * HTML-based subtitles support
313 * MPSub subtitles support
314 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
315 * MPL2 subtitles support
316 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
317 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
318 * Realtext subtitle support
319 * DKS subtitle support
320 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
321 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
324 * Flash Screen Video support
325 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
327 Video outputs and filters:
328 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
329 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
330 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
331 * New puzzle video output filter
332 * Re-written motion detection video filter
333 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
335 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
336 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
337 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
338 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
339 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
340 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
341 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
342 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
343 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
344 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
345 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
346 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
347 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
348 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
350 Audio outputs and filters:
351 * Replay gain support
352 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
353 new scaletempo audio filter)
354 * New spatializer audio filter
355 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
358 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
359 * New RTP payload formats:
360 * Speex voice audio codec
361 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
362 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
363 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
364 * DCCP transport for RTP
365 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
370 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
371 end-user suitable way.
372 * Improved user interaction
373 * Improved mouse gestures
374 * Vastly improved Update checker
375 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
377 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
378 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
380 * Improved video output features
381 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
382 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
383 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
384 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
385 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
387 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
388 if libncursesw is available.
389 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
390 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
391 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
393 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
394 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
395 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
396 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
397 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
398 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
399 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
400 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
403 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
404 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
405 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
408 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
409 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
410 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
411 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
412 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
413 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
416 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
417 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
427 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
428 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
429 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
432 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
433 ----------------------------------
436 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
439 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
440 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
441 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
442 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
443 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
444 * Updated Polish translation
447 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
448 ----------------------------------
451 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
452 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
453 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
456 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
457 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
458 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
459 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
460 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
461 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
462 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
463 to an unexpected application termination
464 * New Serbian translation
465 * Updated Romanian translation
468 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
469 ----------------------------------
472 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
473 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
474 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
475 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
476 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
477 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
478 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
479 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
482 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
483 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
484 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
485 * Fixed AAC resampling
486 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
487 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
490 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
491 ----------------------------------
494 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
495 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
496 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
497 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
498 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
501 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
502 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
503 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
504 * Close MMS access on network timeout
505 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
508 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
509 ----------------------------------
512 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
513 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
516 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
517 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
518 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
519 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
521 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
525 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
528 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
531 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
534 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
537 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
538 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
539 encoding on multi-cpu systems
540 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
541 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
543 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
544 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
545 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
546 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
549 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
552 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
553 ----------------------------------
556 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
557 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
558 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
560 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
561 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
563 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
564 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
567 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
569 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
570 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
571 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
572 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
573 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
574 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
576 * Support for current Ogg file formats
577 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
578 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
581 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
584 * The automatic updating facility was removed
585 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
586 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
587 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
590 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
591 ----------------------------------
593 Various bugfixes, notably:
594 * Windows Vista compatibility
595 * Cropping in Direct3D
596 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
597 * RSS filter string overflow
599 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
601 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
602 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
605 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
606 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
609 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
612 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
615 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
618 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
619 ----------------------------------
621 Various bugfixes, notably:
622 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
623 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
624 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
625 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
626 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
627 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
630 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
631 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
634 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
636 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
637 * Diverse usability improvements
638 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
639 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
640 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
643 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
644 ---------------------------------
647 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
650 * Fullscreen controller improvements
653 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
654 --------------------------------
657 * Shoutcast TV listings support
660 * Support for RTSP authentication
661 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
662 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
663 * ATSC support for DVB input
664 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
665 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
666 * Improved support for Flash Video files
669 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
670 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
671 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
672 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
673 * Matroska WavPack support
674 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
675 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
676 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
679 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
680 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
681 * Improved libcaca support
685 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
686 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
688 * Systray support in skins
690 * Support for Apple Remote control
691 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
692 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
693 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
694 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
696 * Notifications using notification-daemon
699 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
701 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
702 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
703 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
704 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
705 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
707 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
708 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
717 * Updates to the libvlc API
718 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
721 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
722 --------------------------------
725 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
726 * Support for downloading updates
730 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
731 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
732 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
733 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
735 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
736 * Improved subtitles encoding support
737 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
740 * Cook (Real audio) support
742 Playlist / Services discovery:
743 * XSPF playlist support
745 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
748 * New JACK audio output
752 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
753 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
754 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
755 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
756 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
757 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
760 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
763 * System to inform the user and request information
764 - HTTP authentication
768 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
769 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
770 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
773 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
774 - Improved playlist handling
775 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
777 - Embedded Video output
778 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
779 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
780 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
781 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
782 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
784 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
785 - A bunch of new RPN functions
788 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
791 * Mac-Intel compatibility
792 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
793 * Growl "Now playing" support
796 * Ability to log to syslog
797 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
800 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
802 * A bit more automatic testing
805 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
806 ---------------------------------
809 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
810 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
813 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
814 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
817 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
820 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
821 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
827 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
830 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
831 --------------------------------
834 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
838 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
839 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
840 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
843 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
844 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
845 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
846 * GnomeVFS input module
847 * Support for RTP packet reordering
848 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
851 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
852 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
853 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
856 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
857 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
863 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
864 Mixer and Dolby Surround
867 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
868 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
869 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
872 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
874 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
875 - New extended controls panel
876 - New bookmarks window
877 - Fixed playlist sorting
878 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
880 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
881 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
882 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
883 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
887 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
888 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
890 - Include macro to include other files
894 * Should now work outside IE as well
897 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
900 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
901 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
904 The following languages were added:
909 The following languages were re-added:
913 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
914 --------------------------------
917 * Rewrite of the playlist
919 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
920 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
921 * Preferences improvements:
922 - New organization, designed to improve usability
923 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
925 * Core image manipulation support
926 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
927 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
928 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
929 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
930 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
931 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
932 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
933 now separated by ':' instead of ','
934 * Access filter architecture
935 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
936 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
940 * Support for SOCKS proxy
941 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
942 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
943 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
944 * Better support for Kasenna streams
945 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
946 * Massive Matroska improvements
947 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
949 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
950 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
951 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
952 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
953 * Support for FTP over IPv6
956 * Dirac decoder and encoder
957 * PNG decoder/encoder
958 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
959 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
962 * New Record and Timeshift filters
965 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
966 * Brand new SAP module
967 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
968 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
969 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
970 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
971 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
972 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
976 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
979 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
980 * Image file video output (png)
981 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
982 * Improvements to wall video filter
983 * Support for font color and opacity
989 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
990 - Seeking support in VoD streams
991 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
995 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
996 - Improved preferences
997 - Improvements to the wizard
998 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1000 - Redesigned playlist
1001 - Improved preferences
1003 - Support for multiple actions
1006 - Support for the new playlist system
1008 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1011 * Screensaver disabling fix
1012 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1013 * Support for no-decoration windows
1016 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1017 * The OpenGL video output is back
1018 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1019 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1020 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1021 is not yet available in the new module
1022 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1025 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1034 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1037 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1040 The following languages were added:
1046 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1047 --------------------------------
1050 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1051 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1054 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1055 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1056 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1059 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1062 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1065 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1068 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1069 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1070 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1074 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1076 * Support of playlist group announcement
1079 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1080 --------------------------------
1083 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1084 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1085 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1086 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1087 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1088 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1091 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1092 (Stream your desktop)
1093 * Improved DVD support:
1094 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1095 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1096 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1097 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1098 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1099 (selection of titles/chapters).
1102 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1103 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1104 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1105 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1106 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1107 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1108 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1109 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1110 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1111 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1114 * G.726 audio support
1115 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1116 * MPEG-4 text support
1117 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1118 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1119 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1123 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1124 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1125 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1126 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1127 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1128 * DVB subtitles encoder
1129 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1130 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1132 * Text track muxing for mp4
1133 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1134 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1135 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1136 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1137 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1138 * Improved ASF muxer
1140 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1141 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1142 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1145 * New audio equalizer filter
1146 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1147 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1148 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1149 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1152 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1153 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1154 with support for effects.
1155 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1156 - New filters can be streamed.
1157 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1158 - Centralized scaling and blending
1160 - "time", to display current time
1161 - "marq", to display a marquee
1164 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1165 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1166 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1167 * A few skins2 improvements
1168 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1169 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1170 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1171 * Improved CORBA control module
1174 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1175 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1176 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1179 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1180 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1181 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1184 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1185 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1186 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1187 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1188 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1191 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1194 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1195 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1198 * Server/client network synchronization module
1199 * VBrick streams fully supported
1200 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1204 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1205 --------------------------------
1208 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1209 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1210 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1211 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1214 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1215 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1216 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1217 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1218 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1219 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1220 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1223 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1224 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1225 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1226 * Improved directory access module.
1227 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1228 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1229 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1230 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1231 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1234 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1235 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1236 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1239 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1240 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1241 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1244 * Improved session announcement system.
1245 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1246 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1247 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1248 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1249 * Improved transrater.
1250 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1251 * New configuration system.
1252 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1255 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1256 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1257 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1258 * Supports scheduling.
1259 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1260 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1263 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1264 - Ability to embed video output.
1265 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1266 - Lots of improvements.
1267 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1268 - New design and set of icons.
1269 - Ability to embed video output.
1270 - Support for hotkeys.
1271 - Support for bookmarks.
1273 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1274 - Better hotkeys handling.
1277 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1278 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1279 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1280 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1283 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1284 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1285 * Improved Windows installer.
1291 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1292 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1295 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1296 ---------------------------------
1299 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1300 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1303 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1304 --------------------------------
1307 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1308 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1311 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1312 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1313 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1314 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1317 * Internal improvments
1318 * Improved import/export
1321 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1323 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1324 small and strange formats.
1326 * New MOD audio demux.
1327 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1328 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1329 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1330 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1333 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1334 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1335 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1341 * New opengl video output plugin.
1344 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1345 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1348 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1349 --------------------------------
1352 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1353 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1354 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1355 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1356 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1357 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1358 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1359 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1362 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1367 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1368 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1369 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1370 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1371 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1372 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1373 * Better Icecast support.
1374 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1375 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1378 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1379 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1380 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1381 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1382 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1383 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1384 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1387 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1388 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1389 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1390 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1391 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1392 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1393 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1394 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1395 * Preliminary RTP support.
1396 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1401 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1402 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1404 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1405 - Improvements and help in preferences
1406 - New streaming wizard
1407 - Revised Disc Open menu
1409 - Improvements of the standard pages
1410 - Support for new commands
1411 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1414 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1415 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1418 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1419 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1420 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1421 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1422 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1423 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1424 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1425 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1426 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1429 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1431 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1432 * Support for Panther.
1433 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1434 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1437 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1438 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1439 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1440 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1441 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1442 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1443 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1444 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1447 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1448 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1449 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1452 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1455 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1456 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1457 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1458 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1461 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1462 --------------------------------
1465 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1468 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1469 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1472 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1473 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1476 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1479 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1480 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1483 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1486 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1489 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1490 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1494 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1495 --------------------------------
1498 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1499 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1503 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1504 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1505 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1507 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1508 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1511 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1514 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1517 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1518 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1522 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1523 --------------------------------
1526 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1527 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1531 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1532 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1533 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1534 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1535 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1538 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1539 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1540 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1543 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1544 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1545 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1548 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1549 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1550 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1551 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1552 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1555 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1556 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1557 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1560 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1563 * Improved build system.
1564 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1565 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1566 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1567 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1570 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1571 --------------------------------
1574 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1577 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1578 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1579 * Video 4 Linux support
1580 * CD Digital Audio support
1581 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1584 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1585 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1586 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1587 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1590 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1591 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1592 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1593 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1594 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1595 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1596 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1599 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1600 * New HTTP remote control interface
1603 * 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.
1604 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1605 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1606 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1609 * New reset option for the preferences
1610 * You can set your language in the prefences
1611 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1612 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1613 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1614 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1617 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1618 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1619 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1622 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1623 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1624 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1625 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1626 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1627 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1628 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1629 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1630 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1631 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1634 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1635 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1636 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1637 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1638 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1639 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1640 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1643 * Interface localization
1644 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1645 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1646 * New full-featured Preferences window
1649 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1650 --------------------------------
1653 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1654 * support for skins at the interface level
1655 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1656 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1657 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1658 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1659 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1662 * fixed HTTP redirects
1663 * support for opening an entire directory
1664 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1665 * new video4linux access plug-in
1666 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1669 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1670 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1671 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1674 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1675 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1676 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1677 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1678 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1679 * new codec for raw I420 video
1680 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1683 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1684 (although it still misses some important features)
1685 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1688 * new HTTP output support
1689 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1690 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1693 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1696 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1699 * reorderable playlist
1700 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1701 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1702 * support for mono audio output devices
1703 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1704 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1705 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1706 * the messages window remembers more lines
1707 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1708 * http and ogg stream output options
1709 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1712 * new skinnable interface
1713 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1715 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1716 * support for FLAC audio format
1717 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1719 * network tab in the interface
1720 * "apply" handling in preferences
1723 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1724 ---------------------------------
1727 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1728 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1729 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1730 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1732 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1733 * DTS S/PDIF support
1736 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1737 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1738 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1739 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1742 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1743 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1746 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1749 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1752 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1754 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1755 * rc interface is now fully useable
1756 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1759 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1760 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1761 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1762 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1763 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1765 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1766 * support for mouse gestures
1767 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1770 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1771 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1774 * improved ID3 tag detection
1775 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1776 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1777 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1779 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1782 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1783 ---------------------------------
1786 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1787 English was set as the preferred language
1790 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1791 --------------------------------
1794 * new mouse gesture interface
1795 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1799 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1800 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1801 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1804 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1805 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1809 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1812 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1813 without the user consent
1816 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1818 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1819 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1820 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1823 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1824 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1825 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1826 * playlist enhancements
1827 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1828 * new step forward/step backward commands
1829 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1830 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1831 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1834 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1835 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1836 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1839 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1840 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1843 * native video output is working again
1844 * only commandline interface support
1845 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1848 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1849 --------------------------------
1852 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1853 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1854 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1855 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1856 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1857 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1858 and A/52 streams are supported)
1859 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1864 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1865 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1866 * VCD entry points support
1867 * VCD image file support
1870 * support for *.asf format
1871 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1872 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1873 * support for ogg encapsulation
1874 * support for raw DV format
1875 * support for *.wav format
1876 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1879 Stream discovery & playlists:
1880 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1881 * support for .m3u file format
1882 * support for .asx file format
1883 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1886 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1887 (only available with the .avi demux)
1888 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1889 * support for raw PCM data
1890 * support for Cinepak video codec
1891 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1892 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1893 * support for Xvid codec
1894 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1895 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1896 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1898 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1900 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1903 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1906 * new WxWindows interface
1907 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1908 device and the channels configuration
1909 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1910 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1911 format that VLC can play
1912 * new swedish translation
1913 * enhancements of the playlist window
1914 * new messages window to see debug info
1915 * fixed a few crashes
1918 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1919 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1920 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1921 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working