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
12 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
13 * Playback for video in Rar archives
14 * DVB-S and ATSC support on Windows
17 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
18 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on
22 * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
23 * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) support
25 * Blu-Ray Linear PCM support
26 * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) support
27 * Real Video 4.0 support
30 * Support for Dirac and RealVideo in Matroska files
31 * Major improvements in RealMedia files (.rm and .rmvb)
34 * Dirac encoding support using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
37 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
38 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
39 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
41 Linux/Windows interface:
42 * Recently played items list
45 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
48 * New Maemo port with:
49 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
50 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
53 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
56 * support to Export the playlist in HTML
57 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
60 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
61 * Surround support for PulseAudio
64 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
65 ---------------------------------
68 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
70 Bunch of small bugfixes.
73 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
74 --------------------------------
79 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
80 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
83 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
84 --------------------------------
86 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
87 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
90 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
93 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
94 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
97 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
98 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
101 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
102 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
103 * Various fixed in playlist
106 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
109 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
112 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
113 ------------------------------------
115 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
116 * Fixes several memory leaks.
119 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
120 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
121 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
124 * Stability fix for the video output.
127 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
128 --------------------------------
131 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
132 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
133 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
134 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
135 * Fixed update system bugs
136 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
139 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
140 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
141 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
142 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
143 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
144 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
145 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
146 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
147 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
148 modern Mac OS X versions
151 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
152 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
154 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
155 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
158 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
159 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
160 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
161 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
162 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
163 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
166 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
167 --------------------------------
169 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
170 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
174 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
175 --------------------------------
177 * Multiple bug fixes.
180 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
181 ---------------------------------
185 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
186 recent to work correctly
187 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
188 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
189 edit the ".hosts" file.
190 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
191 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
192 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
193 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
194 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
195 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
196 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
197 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
198 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
199 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
200 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
201 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
202 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
203 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
204 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
205 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
206 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
207 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
208 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
209 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
210 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
211 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
212 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
213 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
214 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
215 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
216 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
217 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
218 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
219 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
220 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
221 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
222 and postproc modules.
223 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
224 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
225 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
226 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
228 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
230 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
231 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
233 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
234 * Glide video output module has been removed.
240 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
242 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
243 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
246 * Vastly improved playlist support:
247 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
249 * Shoutcast TV listings
250 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
252 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
253 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
255 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
258 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
259 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
260 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
261 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
262 * JACK audio input support
263 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
264 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
265 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
266 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
267 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
268 * Experimental EyeTV access module
269 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
270 (available as a separate download).
271 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
273 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
274 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
275 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
277 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
278 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
281 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
282 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
283 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
284 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
286 * APEv1/2 tags support
287 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
288 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
290 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
291 * TiVo Series 2 support
292 * CD+G karaoke Files support
297 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
298 * Flash Screen Video support
299 * CamStudio Screen Video support
300 * DosBox Capture support
301 * Karl Morton's Video support
302 * limited atrac3 support
304 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
305 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
306 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
308 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
309 * NellyMoser ASAO support
310 * APE (Monkey audio) support
311 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
312 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
315 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
316 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
317 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
318 * AQTitle subtitles support
319 * MKV USF subtitles support
320 * HTML-based subtitles support
321 * MPSub subtitles support
322 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
323 * MPL2 subtitles support
324 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
325 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
326 * Realtext subtitle support
327 * DKS subtitle support
328 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
329 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
332 * Flash Screen Video support
333 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
335 Video outputs and filters:
336 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
337 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
338 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
339 * New puzzle video output filter
340 * Re-written motion detection video filter
341 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
343 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
344 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
345 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
346 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
347 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
348 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
349 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
350 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
351 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
352 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
353 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
354 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
355 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
356 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
358 Audio outputs and filters:
359 * Replay gain support
360 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
361 new scaletempo audio filter)
362 * New spatializer audio filter
363 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
366 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
367 * New RTP payload formats:
368 * Speex voice audio codec
369 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
370 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
371 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
372 * DCCP transport for RTP
373 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
378 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
379 end-user suitable way.
380 * Improved user interaction
381 * Improved mouse gestures
382 * Vastly improved Update checker
383 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
385 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
386 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
388 * Improved video output features
389 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
390 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
391 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
392 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
393 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
395 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
396 if libncursesw is available.
397 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
398 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
399 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
401 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
402 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
403 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
404 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
405 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
406 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
407 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
408 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
411 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
412 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
413 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
416 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
417 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
418 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
419 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
420 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
421 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
424 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
425 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
435 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
436 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
437 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
440 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
441 ----------------------------------
444 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
447 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
448 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
449 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
450 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
451 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
452 * Updated Polish translation
455 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
456 ----------------------------------
459 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
460 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
461 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
464 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
465 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
466 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
467 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
468 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
469 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
470 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
471 to an unexpected application termination
472 * New Serbian translation
473 * Updated Romanian translation
476 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
477 ----------------------------------
480 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
481 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
482 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
483 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
484 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
485 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
486 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
487 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
490 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
491 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
492 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
493 * Fixed AAC resampling
494 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
495 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
498 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
499 ----------------------------------
502 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
503 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
504 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
505 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
506 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
509 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
510 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
511 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
512 * Close MMS access on network timeout
513 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
516 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
517 ----------------------------------
520 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
521 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
524 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
525 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
526 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
527 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
529 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
533 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
536 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
539 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
542 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
545 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
546 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
547 encoding on multi-cpu systems
548 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
549 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
551 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
552 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
553 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
554 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
557 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
560 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
561 ----------------------------------
564 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
565 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
566 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
568 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
569 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
571 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
572 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
575 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
577 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
578 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
579 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
580 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
581 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
582 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
584 * Support for current Ogg file formats
585 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
586 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
589 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
592 * The automatic updating facility was removed
593 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
594 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
595 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
598 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
599 ----------------------------------
601 Various bugfixes, notably:
602 * Windows Vista compatibility
603 * Cropping in Direct3D
604 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
605 * RSS filter string overflow
607 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
609 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
610 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
613 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
614 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
617 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
620 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
623 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
626 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
627 ----------------------------------
629 Various bugfixes, notably:
630 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
631 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
632 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
633 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
634 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
635 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
638 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
639 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
642 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
644 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
645 * Diverse usability improvements
646 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
647 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
648 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
651 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
652 ---------------------------------
655 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
658 * Fullscreen controller improvements
661 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
662 --------------------------------
665 * Shoutcast TV listings support
668 * Support for RTSP authentication
669 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
670 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
671 * ATSC support for DVB input
672 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
673 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
674 * Improved support for Flash Video files
677 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
678 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
679 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
680 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
681 * Matroska WavPack support
682 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
683 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
684 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
687 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
688 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
689 * Improved libcaca support
693 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
694 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
696 * Systray support in skins
698 * Support for Apple Remote control
699 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
700 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
701 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
702 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
704 * Notifications using notification-daemon
707 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
709 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
710 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
711 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
712 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
713 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
715 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
716 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
725 * Updates to the libvlc API
726 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
729 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
730 --------------------------------
733 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
734 * Support for downloading updates
738 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
739 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
740 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
741 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
743 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
744 * Improved subtitles encoding support
745 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
748 * Cook (Real audio) support
750 Playlist / Services discovery:
751 * XSPF playlist support
753 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
756 * New JACK audio output
760 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
761 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
762 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
763 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
764 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
765 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
768 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
771 * System to inform the user and request information
772 - HTTP authentication
776 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
777 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
778 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
781 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
782 - Improved playlist handling
783 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
785 - Embedded Video output
786 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
787 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
788 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
789 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
790 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
792 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
793 - A bunch of new RPN functions
796 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
799 * Mac-Intel compatibility
800 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
801 * Growl "Now playing" support
804 * Ability to log to syslog
805 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
808 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
810 * A bit more automatic testing
813 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
814 ---------------------------------
817 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
818 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
821 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
822 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
825 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
828 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
829 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
835 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
838 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
839 --------------------------------
842 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
846 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
847 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
848 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
851 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
852 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
853 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
854 * GnomeVFS input module
855 * Support for RTP packet reordering
856 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
859 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
860 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
861 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
864 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
865 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
871 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
872 Mixer and Dolby Surround
875 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
876 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
877 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
880 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
882 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
883 - New extended controls panel
884 - New bookmarks window
885 - Fixed playlist sorting
886 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
888 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
889 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
890 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
891 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
895 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
896 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
898 - Include macro to include other files
902 * Should now work outside IE as well
905 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
908 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
909 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
912 The following languages were added:
917 The following languages were re-added:
921 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
922 --------------------------------
925 * Rewrite of the playlist
927 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
928 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
929 * Preferences improvements:
930 - New organization, designed to improve usability
931 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
933 * Core image manipulation support
934 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
935 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
936 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
937 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
938 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
939 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
940 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
941 now separated by ':' instead of ','
942 * Access filter architecture
943 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
944 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
948 * Support for SOCKS proxy
949 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
950 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
951 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
952 * Better support for Kasenna streams
953 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
954 * Massive Matroska improvements
955 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
957 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
958 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
959 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
960 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
961 * Support for FTP over IPv6
964 * Dirac decoder and encoder
965 * PNG decoder/encoder
966 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
967 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
970 * New Record and Timeshift filters
973 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
974 * Brand new SAP module
975 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
976 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
977 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
978 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
979 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
980 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
984 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
987 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
988 * Image file video output (png)
989 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
990 * Improvements to wall video filter
991 * Support for font color and opacity
997 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
998 - Seeking support in VoD streams
999 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1003 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1004 - Improved preferences
1005 - Improvements to the wizard
1006 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1008 - Redesigned playlist
1009 - Improved preferences
1011 - Support for multiple actions
1014 - Support for the new playlist system
1016 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1019 * Screensaver disabling fix
1020 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1021 * Support for no-decoration windows
1024 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1025 * The OpenGL video output is back
1026 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1027 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1028 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1029 is not yet available in the new module
1030 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1033 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1042 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1045 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1048 The following languages were added:
1054 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1055 --------------------------------
1058 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1059 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1062 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1063 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1064 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1067 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1070 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1073 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1076 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1077 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1078 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1082 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1084 * Support of playlist group announcement
1087 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1088 --------------------------------
1091 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1092 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1093 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1094 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1095 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1096 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1099 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1100 (Stream your desktop)
1101 * Improved DVD support:
1102 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1103 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1104 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1105 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1106 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1107 (selection of titles/chapters).
1110 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1111 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1112 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1113 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1114 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1115 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1116 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1117 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1118 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1119 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1122 * G.726 audio support
1123 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1124 * MPEG-4 text support
1125 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1126 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1127 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1131 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1132 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1133 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1134 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1135 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1136 * DVB subtitles encoder
1137 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1138 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1140 * Text track muxing for mp4
1141 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1142 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1143 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1144 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1145 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1146 * Improved ASF muxer
1148 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1149 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1150 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1153 * New audio equalizer filter
1154 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1155 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1156 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1157 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1160 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1161 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1162 with support for effects.
1163 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1164 - New filters can be streamed.
1165 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1166 - Centralized scaling and blending
1168 - "time", to display current time
1169 - "marq", to display a marquee
1172 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1173 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1174 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1175 * A few skins2 improvements
1176 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1177 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1178 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1179 * Improved CORBA control module
1182 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1183 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1184 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1187 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1188 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1189 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1192 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1193 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1194 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1195 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1196 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1199 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1202 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1203 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1206 * Server/client network synchronization module
1207 * VBrick streams fully supported
1208 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1212 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1213 --------------------------------
1216 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1217 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1218 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1219 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1222 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1223 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1224 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1225 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1226 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1227 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1228 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1231 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1232 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1233 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1234 * Improved directory access module.
1235 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1236 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1237 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1238 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1239 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1242 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1243 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1244 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1247 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1248 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1249 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1252 * Improved session announcement system.
1253 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1254 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1255 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1256 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1257 * Improved transrater.
1258 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1259 * New configuration system.
1260 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1263 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1264 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1265 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1266 * Supports scheduling.
1267 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1268 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1271 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1272 - Ability to embed video output.
1273 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1274 - Lots of improvements.
1275 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1276 - New design and set of icons.
1277 - Ability to embed video output.
1278 - Support for hotkeys.
1279 - Support for bookmarks.
1281 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1282 - Better hotkeys handling.
1285 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1286 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1287 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1288 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1291 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1292 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1293 * Improved Windows installer.
1299 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1300 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1303 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1304 ---------------------------------
1307 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1308 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1311 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1312 --------------------------------
1315 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1316 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1319 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1320 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1321 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1322 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1325 * Internal improvments
1326 * Improved import/export
1329 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1331 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1332 small and strange formats.
1334 * New MOD audio demux.
1335 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1336 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1337 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1338 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1341 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1342 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1343 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1349 * New opengl video output plugin.
1352 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1353 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1356 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1357 --------------------------------
1360 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1361 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1362 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1363 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1364 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1365 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1366 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1367 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1370 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1375 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1376 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1377 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1378 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1379 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1380 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1381 * Better Icecast support.
1382 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1383 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1386 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1387 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1388 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1389 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1390 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1391 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1392 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1395 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1396 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1397 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1398 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1399 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1400 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1401 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1402 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1403 * Preliminary RTP support.
1404 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1409 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1410 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1412 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1413 - Improvements and help in preferences
1414 - New streaming wizard
1415 - Revised Disc Open menu
1417 - Improvements of the standard pages
1418 - Support for new commands
1419 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1422 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1423 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1426 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1427 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1428 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1429 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1430 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1431 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1432 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1433 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1434 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1437 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1439 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1440 * Support for Panther.
1441 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1442 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1445 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1446 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1447 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1448 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1449 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1450 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1451 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1452 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1455 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1456 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1457 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1460 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1463 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1464 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1465 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1466 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1469 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1470 --------------------------------
1473 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1476 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1477 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1480 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1481 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1484 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1487 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1488 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1491 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1494 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1497 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1498 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1502 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1503 --------------------------------
1506 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1507 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1511 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1512 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1513 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1515 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1516 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1519 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1522 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1525 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1526 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1530 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1531 --------------------------------
1534 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1535 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1539 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1540 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1541 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1542 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1543 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1546 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1547 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1548 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1551 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1552 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1553 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1556 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1557 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1558 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1559 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1560 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1563 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1564 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1565 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1568 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1571 * Improved build system.
1572 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1573 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1574 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1575 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1578 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1579 --------------------------------
1582 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1585 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1586 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1587 * Video 4 Linux support
1588 * CD Digital Audio support
1589 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1592 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1593 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1594 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1595 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1598 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1599 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1600 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1601 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1602 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1603 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1604 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1607 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1608 * New HTTP remote control interface
1611 * 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.
1612 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1613 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1614 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1617 * New reset option for the preferences
1618 * You can set your language in the prefences
1619 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1620 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1621 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1622 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1625 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1626 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1627 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1630 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1631 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1632 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1633 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1634 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1635 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1636 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1637 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1638 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1639 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1642 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1643 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1644 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1645 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1646 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1647 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1648 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1651 * Interface localization
1652 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1653 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1654 * New full-featured Preferences window
1657 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1658 --------------------------------
1661 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1662 * support for skins at the interface level
1663 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1664 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1665 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1666 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1667 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1670 * fixed HTTP redirects
1671 * support for opening an entire directory
1672 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1673 * new video4linux access plug-in
1674 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1677 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1678 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1679 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1682 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1683 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1684 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1685 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1686 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1687 * new codec for raw I420 video
1688 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1691 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1692 (although it still misses some important features)
1693 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1696 * new HTTP output support
1697 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1698 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1701 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1704 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1707 * reorderable playlist
1708 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1709 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1710 * support for mono audio output devices
1711 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1712 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1713 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1714 * the messages window remembers more lines
1715 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1716 * http and ogg stream output options
1717 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1720 * new skinnable interface
1721 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1723 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1724 * support for FLAC audio format
1725 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1727 * network tab in the interface
1728 * "apply" handling in preferences
1731 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1732 ---------------------------------
1735 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1736 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1737 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1738 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1740 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1741 * DTS S/PDIF support
1744 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1745 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1746 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1747 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1750 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1751 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1754 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1757 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1760 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1762 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1763 * rc interface is now fully useable
1764 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1767 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1768 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1769 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1770 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1771 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1773 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1774 * support for mouse gestures
1775 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1778 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1779 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1782 * improved ID3 tag detection
1783 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1784 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1785 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1787 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1790 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1791 ---------------------------------
1794 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1795 English was set as the preferred language
1798 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1799 --------------------------------
1802 * new mouse gesture interface
1803 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1807 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1808 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1809 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1812 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1813 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1817 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1820 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1821 without the user consent
1824 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1826 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1827 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1828 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1831 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1832 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1833 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1834 * playlist enhancements
1835 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1836 * new step forward/step backward commands
1837 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1838 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1839 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1842 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1843 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1844 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1847 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1848 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1851 * native video output is working again
1852 * only commandline interface support
1853 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1856 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1857 --------------------------------
1860 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1861 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1862 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1863 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1864 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1865 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1866 and A/52 streams are supported)
1867 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1872 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1873 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1874 * VCD entry points support
1875 * VCD image file support
1878 * support for *.asf format
1879 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1880 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1881 * support for ogg encapsulation
1882 * support for raw DV format
1883 * support for *.wav format
1884 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1887 Stream discovery & playlists:
1888 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1889 * support for .m3u file format
1890 * support for .asx file format
1891 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1894 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1895 (only available with the .avi demux)
1896 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1897 * support for raw PCM data
1898 * support for Cinepak video codec
1899 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1900 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1901 * support for Xvid codec
1902 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1903 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1904 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1906 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1908 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1911 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1914 * new WxWindows interface
1915 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1916 device and the channels configuration
1917 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1918 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1919 format that VLC can play
1920 * new swedish translation
1921 * enhancements of the playlist window
1922 * new messages window to see debug info
1923 * fixed a few crashes
1926 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1927 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1928 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1929 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working