1 Changes between 0.9.8a and 1.0.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Instantaneous pausing
6 * Frame-by-Frame playback
7 * Timeshift for all medias
8 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
9 * RTSP trickplay support
13 * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b)
16 * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice)
17 * Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
18 * WMA v1/2 fixed point integer
19 * Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard
22 * Support for Dirac and RealVideo in Matroska files
23 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
24 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files
27 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
28 * Shine mp3 fixed point encoder
31 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
32 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
33 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
34 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
35 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
36 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
37 * DVB scanning on linux
38 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc Folder support
39 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)
42 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
43 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
47 * Export the playlist in HTML
48 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
50 Linux/Windows interface:
51 * Recently played items list
52 * Interface customizations
53 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
56 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
59 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
60 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
61 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
62 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
65 * New Maemo port with:
66 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
67 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
70 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
73 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
74 * Surround support for PulseAudio
77 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
78 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
81 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
84 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
85 ---------------------------------
88 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
90 Bunch of small bugfixes.
93 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
94 --------------------------------
99 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
100 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
103 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
104 --------------------------------
106 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
107 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
110 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
113 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
114 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
117 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
118 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
121 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
122 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
123 * Various fixed in playlist
126 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
129 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
132 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
133 ------------------------------------
135 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
136 * Fixes several memory leaks.
139 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
140 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
141 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
144 * Stability fix for the video output.
147 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
148 --------------------------------
151 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
152 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
153 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
154 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
155 * Fixed update system bugs
156 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
159 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
160 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
161 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
162 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
163 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
164 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
165 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
166 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
167 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
168 modern Mac OS X versions
171 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
172 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
174 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
175 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
178 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
179 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
180 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
181 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
182 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
183 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
186 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
187 --------------------------------
189 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
190 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
194 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
195 --------------------------------
197 * Multiple bug fixes.
200 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
201 ---------------------------------
205 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
206 recent to work correctly
207 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
208 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
209 edit the ".hosts" file.
210 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
211 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
212 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
213 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
214 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
215 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
216 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
217 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
218 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
219 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
220 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
221 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
222 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
223 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
224 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
225 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
226 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
227 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
228 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
229 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
230 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
231 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
232 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
233 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
234 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
235 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
236 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
237 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
238 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
239 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
240 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
241 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
242 and postproc modules.
243 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
244 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
245 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
246 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
248 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
250 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
251 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
253 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
254 * Glide video output module has been removed.
260 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
262 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
263 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
266 * Vastly improved playlist support:
267 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
269 * Shoutcast TV listings
270 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
272 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
273 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
275 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
278 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
279 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
280 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
281 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
282 * JACK audio input support
283 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
284 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
285 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
286 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
287 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
288 * Experimental EyeTV access module
289 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
290 (available as a separate download).
291 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
293 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
294 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
295 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
297 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
298 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
301 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
302 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
303 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
304 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
306 * APEv1/2 tags support
307 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
308 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
310 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
311 * TiVo Series 2 support
312 * CD+G karaoke Files support
317 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
318 * Flash Screen Video support
319 * CamStudio Screen Video support
320 * DosBox Capture support
321 * Karl Morton's Video support
322 * limited atrac3 support
324 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
325 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
326 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
328 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
329 * NellyMoser ASAO support
330 * APE (Monkey audio) support
331 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
332 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
335 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
336 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
337 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
338 * AQTitle subtitles support
339 * MKV USF subtitles support
340 * HTML-based subtitles support
341 * MPSub subtitles support
342 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
343 * MPL2 subtitles support
344 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
345 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
346 * Realtext subtitle support
347 * DKS subtitle support
348 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
349 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
352 * Flash Screen Video support
353 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
355 Video outputs and filters:
356 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
357 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
358 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
359 * New puzzle video output filter
360 * Re-written motion detection video filter
361 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
363 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
364 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
365 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
366 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
367 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
368 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
369 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
370 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
371 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
372 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
373 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
374 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
375 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
376 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
378 Audio outputs and filters:
379 * Replay gain support
380 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
381 new scaletempo audio filter)
382 * New spatializer audio filter
383 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
386 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
387 * New RTP payload formats:
388 * Speex voice audio codec
389 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
390 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
391 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
392 * DCCP transport for RTP
393 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
398 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
399 end-user suitable way.
400 * Improved user interaction
401 * Improved mouse gestures
402 * Vastly improved Update checker
403 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
405 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
406 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
408 * Improved video output features
409 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
410 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
411 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
412 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
413 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
415 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
416 if libncursesw is available.
417 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
418 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
419 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
421 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
422 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
423 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
424 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
425 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
426 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
427 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
428 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
431 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
432 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
433 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
436 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
437 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
438 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
439 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
440 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
441 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
444 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
445 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
455 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
456 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
457 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
460 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
461 ----------------------------------
464 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
467 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
468 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
469 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
470 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
471 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
472 * Updated Polish translation
475 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
476 ----------------------------------
479 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
480 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
481 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
484 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
485 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
486 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
487 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
488 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
489 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
490 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
491 to an unexpected application termination
492 * New Serbian translation
493 * Updated Romanian translation
496 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
497 ----------------------------------
500 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
501 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
502 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
503 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
504 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
505 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
506 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
507 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
510 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
511 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
512 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
513 * Fixed AAC resampling
514 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
515 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
518 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
519 ----------------------------------
522 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
523 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
524 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
525 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
526 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
529 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
530 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
531 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
532 * Close MMS access on network timeout
533 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
536 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
537 ----------------------------------
540 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
541 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
544 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
545 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
546 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
547 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
549 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
553 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
556 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
559 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
562 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
565 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
566 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
567 encoding on multi-cpu systems
568 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
569 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
571 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
572 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
573 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
574 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
577 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
580 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
581 ----------------------------------
584 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
585 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
586 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
588 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
589 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
591 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
592 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
595 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
597 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
598 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
599 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
600 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
601 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
602 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
604 * Support for current Ogg file formats
605 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
606 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
609 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
612 * The automatic updating facility was removed
613 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
614 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
615 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
618 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
619 ----------------------------------
621 Various bugfixes, notably:
622 * Windows Vista compatibility
623 * Cropping in Direct3D
624 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
625 * RSS filter string overflow
627 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
629 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
630 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
633 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
634 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
637 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
640 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
643 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
646 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
647 ----------------------------------
649 Various bugfixes, notably:
650 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
651 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
652 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
653 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
654 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
655 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
658 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
659 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
662 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
664 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
665 * Diverse usability improvements
666 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
667 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
668 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
671 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
672 ---------------------------------
675 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
678 * Fullscreen controller improvements
681 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
682 --------------------------------
685 * Shoutcast TV listings support
688 * Support for RTSP authentication
689 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
690 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
691 * ATSC support for DVB input
692 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
693 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
694 * Improved support for Flash Video files
697 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
698 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
699 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
700 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
701 * Matroska WavPack support
702 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
703 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
704 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
707 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
708 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
709 * Improved libcaca support
713 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
714 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
716 * Systray support in skins
718 * Support for Apple Remote control
719 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
720 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
721 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
722 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
724 * Notifications using notification-daemon
727 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
729 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
730 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
731 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
732 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
733 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
735 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
736 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
745 * Updates to the libvlc API
746 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
749 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
750 --------------------------------
753 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
754 * Support for downloading updates
758 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
759 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
760 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
761 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
763 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
764 * Improved subtitles encoding support
765 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
768 * Cook (Real audio) support
770 Playlist / Services discovery:
771 * XSPF playlist support
773 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
776 * New JACK audio output
780 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
781 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
782 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
783 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
784 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
785 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
788 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
791 * System to inform the user and request information
792 - HTTP authentication
796 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
797 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
798 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
801 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
802 - Improved playlist handling
803 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
805 - Embedded Video output
806 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
807 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
808 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
809 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
810 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
812 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
813 - A bunch of new RPN functions
816 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
819 * Mac-Intel compatibility
820 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
821 * Growl "Now playing" support
824 * Ability to log to syslog
825 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
828 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
830 * A bit more automatic testing
833 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
834 ---------------------------------
837 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
838 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
841 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
842 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
845 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
848 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
849 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
855 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
858 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
859 --------------------------------
862 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
866 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
867 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
868 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
871 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
872 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
873 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
874 * GnomeVFS input module
875 * Support for RTP packet reordering
876 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
879 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
880 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
881 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
884 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
885 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
891 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
892 Mixer and Dolby Surround
895 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
896 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
897 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
900 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
902 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
903 - New extended controls panel
904 - New bookmarks window
905 - Fixed playlist sorting
906 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
908 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
909 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
910 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
911 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
915 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
916 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
918 - Include macro to include other files
922 * Should now work outside IE as well
925 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
928 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
929 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
932 The following languages were added:
937 The following languages were re-added:
941 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
942 --------------------------------
945 * Rewrite of the playlist
947 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
948 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
949 * Preferences improvements:
950 - New organization, designed to improve usability
951 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
953 * Core image manipulation support
954 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
955 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
956 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
957 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
958 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
959 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
960 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
961 now separated by ':' instead of ','
962 * Access filter architecture
963 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
964 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
968 * Support for SOCKS proxy
969 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
970 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
971 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
972 * Better support for Kasenna streams
973 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
974 * Massive Matroska improvements
975 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
977 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
978 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
979 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
980 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
981 * Support for FTP over IPv6
984 * Dirac decoder and encoder
985 * PNG decoder/encoder
986 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
987 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
990 * New Record and Timeshift filters
993 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
994 * Brand new SAP module
995 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
996 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
997 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
998 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
999 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1000 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1004 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1007 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1008 * Image file video output (png)
1009 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1010 * Improvements to wall video filter
1011 * Support for font color and opacity
1017 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1018 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1019 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1023 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1024 - Improved preferences
1025 - Improvements to the wizard
1026 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1028 - Redesigned playlist
1029 - Improved preferences
1031 - Support for multiple actions
1034 - Support for the new playlist system
1036 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1039 * Screensaver disabling fix
1040 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1041 * Support for no-decoration windows
1044 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1045 * The OpenGL video output is back
1046 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1047 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1048 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1049 is not yet available in the new module
1050 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1053 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1062 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1065 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1068 The following languages were added:
1074 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1075 --------------------------------
1078 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1079 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1082 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1083 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1084 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1087 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1090 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1093 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1096 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1097 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1098 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1102 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1104 * Support of playlist group announcement
1107 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1108 --------------------------------
1111 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1112 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1113 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1114 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1115 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1116 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1119 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1120 (Stream your desktop)
1121 * Improved DVD support:
1122 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1123 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1124 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1125 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1126 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1127 (selection of titles/chapters).
1130 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1131 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1132 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1133 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1134 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1135 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1136 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1137 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1138 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1139 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1142 * G.726 audio support
1143 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1144 * MPEG-4 text support
1145 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1146 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1147 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1151 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1152 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1153 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1154 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1155 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1156 * DVB subtitles encoder
1157 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1158 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1160 * Text track muxing for mp4
1161 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1162 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1163 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1164 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1165 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1166 * Improved ASF muxer
1168 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1169 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1170 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1173 * New audio equalizer filter
1174 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1175 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1176 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1177 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1180 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1181 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1182 with support for effects.
1183 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1184 - New filters can be streamed.
1185 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1186 - Centralized scaling and blending
1188 - "time", to display current time
1189 - "marq", to display a marquee
1192 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1193 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1194 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1195 * A few skins2 improvements
1196 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1197 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1198 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1199 * Improved CORBA control module
1202 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1203 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1204 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1207 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1208 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1209 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1212 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1213 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1214 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1215 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1216 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1219 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1222 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1223 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1226 * Server/client network synchronization module
1227 * VBrick streams fully supported
1228 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1232 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1233 --------------------------------
1236 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1237 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1238 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1239 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1242 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1243 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1244 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1245 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1246 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1247 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1248 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1251 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1252 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1253 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1254 * Improved directory access module.
1255 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1256 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1257 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1258 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1259 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1262 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1263 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1264 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1267 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1268 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1269 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1272 * Improved session announcement system.
1273 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1274 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1275 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1276 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1277 * Improved transrater.
1278 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1279 * New configuration system.
1280 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1283 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1284 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1285 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1286 * Supports scheduling.
1287 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1288 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1291 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1292 - Ability to embed video output.
1293 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1294 - Lots of improvements.
1295 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1296 - New design and set of icons.
1297 - Ability to embed video output.
1298 - Support for hotkeys.
1299 - Support for bookmarks.
1301 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1302 - Better hotkeys handling.
1305 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1306 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1307 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1308 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1311 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1312 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1313 * Improved Windows installer.
1319 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1320 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1323 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1324 ---------------------------------
1327 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1328 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1331 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1332 --------------------------------
1335 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1336 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1339 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1340 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1341 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1342 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1345 * Internal improvments
1346 * Improved import/export
1349 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1351 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1352 small and strange formats.
1354 * New MOD audio demux.
1355 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1356 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1357 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1358 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1361 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1362 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1363 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1369 * New opengl video output plugin.
1372 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1373 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1376 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1377 --------------------------------
1380 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1381 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1382 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1383 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1384 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1385 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1386 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1387 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1390 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1395 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1396 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1397 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1398 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1399 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1400 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1401 * Better Icecast support.
1402 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1403 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1406 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1407 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1408 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1409 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1410 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1411 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1412 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1415 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1416 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1417 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1418 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1419 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1420 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1421 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1422 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1423 * Preliminary RTP support.
1424 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1429 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1430 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1432 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1433 - Improvements and help in preferences
1434 - New streaming wizard
1435 - Revised Disc Open menu
1437 - Improvements of the standard pages
1438 - Support for new commands
1439 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1442 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1443 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1446 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1447 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1448 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1449 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1450 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1451 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1452 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1453 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1454 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1457 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1459 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1460 * Support for Panther.
1461 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1462 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1465 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1466 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1467 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1468 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1469 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1470 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1471 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1472 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1475 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1476 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1477 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1480 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1483 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1484 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1485 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1486 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1489 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1490 --------------------------------
1493 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1496 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1497 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1500 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1501 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1504 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
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).
1535 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1536 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1539 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1542 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1545 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1546 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1550 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1551 --------------------------------
1554 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1555 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1559 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1560 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1561 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1562 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1563 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1566 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1567 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1568 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1571 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1572 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1573 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1576 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1577 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1578 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1579 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1580 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1583 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1584 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1585 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1588 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1591 * Improved build system.
1592 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1593 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1594 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1595 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1598 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1599 --------------------------------
1602 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1605 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1606 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1607 * Video 4 Linux support
1608 * CD Digital Audio support
1609 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1612 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1613 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1614 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1615 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1618 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1619 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1620 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1621 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1622 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1623 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1624 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1627 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1628 * New HTTP remote control interface
1631 * 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.
1632 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1633 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1634 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1637 * New reset option for the preferences
1638 * You can set your language in the prefences
1639 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1640 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1641 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1642 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1645 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1646 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1647 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1650 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1651 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1652 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1653 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1654 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1655 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1656 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1657 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1658 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1659 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1662 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1663 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1664 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1665 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1666 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1667 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1668 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1671 * Interface localization
1672 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1673 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1674 * New full-featured Preferences window
1677 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1678 --------------------------------
1681 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1682 * support for skins at the interface level
1683 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1684 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1685 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1686 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1687 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1690 * fixed HTTP redirects
1691 * support for opening an entire directory
1692 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1693 * new video4linux access plug-in
1694 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1697 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1698 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1699 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1702 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1703 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1704 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1705 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1706 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1707 * new codec for raw I420 video
1708 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1711 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1712 (although it still misses some important features)
1713 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1716 * new HTTP output support
1717 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1718 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1721 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1724 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1727 * reorderable playlist
1728 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1729 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1730 * support for mono audio output devices
1731 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1732 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1733 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1734 * the messages window remembers more lines
1735 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1736 * http and ogg stream output options
1737 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1740 * new skinnable interface
1741 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1743 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1744 * support for FLAC audio format
1745 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1747 * network tab in the interface
1748 * "apply" handling in preferences
1751 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1752 ---------------------------------
1755 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1756 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1757 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1758 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1760 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1761 * DTS S/PDIF support
1764 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1765 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1766 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1767 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1770 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1771 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1774 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1777 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1780 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1782 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1783 * rc interface is now fully useable
1784 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1787 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1788 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1789 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1790 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1791 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1793 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1794 * support for mouse gestures
1795 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1798 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1799 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1802 * improved ID3 tag detection
1803 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1804 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1805 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1807 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1810 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1811 ---------------------------------
1814 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1815 English was set as the preferred language
1818 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1819 --------------------------------
1822 * new mouse gesture interface
1823 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1827 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1828 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1829 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1832 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1833 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1837 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1840 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1841 without the user consent
1844 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1846 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1847 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1848 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1851 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1852 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1853 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1854 * playlist enhancements
1855 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1856 * new step forward/step backward commands
1857 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1858 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1859 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1862 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1863 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1864 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1867 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1868 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1871 * native video output is working again
1872 * only commandline interface support
1873 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1876 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1877 --------------------------------
1880 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1881 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1882 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1883 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1884 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1885 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1886 and A/52 streams are supported)
1887 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1892 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1893 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1894 * VCD entry points support
1895 * VCD image file support
1898 * support for *.asf format
1899 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1900 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1901 * support for ogg encapsulation
1902 * support for raw DV format
1903 * support for *.wav format
1904 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1907 Stream discovery & playlists:
1908 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1909 * support for .m3u file format
1910 * support for .asx file format
1911 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1914 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1915 (only available with the .avi demux)
1916 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1917 * support for raw PCM data
1918 * support for Cinepak video codec
1919 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1920 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1921 * support for Xvid codec
1922 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1923 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1924 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1926 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1928 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1931 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1934 * new WxWindows interface
1935 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1936 device and the channels configuration
1937 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1938 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1939 format that VLC can play
1940 * new swedish translation
1941 * enhancements of the playlist window
1942 * new messages window to see debug info
1943 * fixed a few crashes
1946 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1947 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1948 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1949 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working