1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
13 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
14 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
15 * Support for Ulead DV audio
16 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
17 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
18 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
19 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
22 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
25 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
26 * Major improvements in DASH support
27 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
28 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
29 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
32 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
33 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
34 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
35 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
36 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
37 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
38 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
39 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
40 * Support for more MJPEG streams
43 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
44 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
45 * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
48 * new remapping channel filter
49 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
50 * new VSXu visualization plugin
53 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
54 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
57 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
58 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
59 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
60 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
61 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
62 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
65 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
68 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
69 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
70 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
71 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
72 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
75 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
76 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
79 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
81 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
82 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
83 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
84 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
85 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
86 VLC's internal volume level
87 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
88 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
89 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
90 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
92 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
93 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
94 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
95 * allow the OS to turn off the screen(s) when playing audio-only media while the user
97 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
101 * Partial support for Qt5.0
102 * Menus modifications and improvements
103 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
104 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
108 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
109 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
110 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
111 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
114 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
115 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
116 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
117 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
118 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
120 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
121 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
124 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
125 --------------------------------
128 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
131 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
132 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
135 * Add GateKeeper support
136 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
137 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
138 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
141 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
144 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
145 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
146 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
147 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
148 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
151 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
152 --------------------------------
155 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
156 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
157 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
158 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
159 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
160 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
161 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
162 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
163 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
164 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
165 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
169 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
170 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
171 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
172 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
173 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
174 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
175 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
176 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
177 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
178 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
179 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
180 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
183 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
184 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
186 * Fix MP3 free format support
189 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
190 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
191 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
192 * Fix for DVB channels file support
193 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
196 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
197 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
199 Audio filters and output:
200 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
201 * Fix DirectSound device selection
202 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
203 * Do not apply volume in file output
204 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
205 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
208 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
209 the persistant media library
210 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
211 to the media library or the temporary playlist
212 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
213 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
214 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
215 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
216 press on the Play/Pause button
217 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
218 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
219 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
220 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
221 * Many Fullscreen fixes
222 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
223 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
224 Synchronization panel
225 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
226 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
227 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
228 * Fix crashes on exit
229 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
231 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
232 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
233 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
234 automatically reset on the first launch.
235 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
236 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
237 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
240 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
241 * Fixes for icecast SD
244 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
245 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
246 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
247 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
248 * Fix tags and file names display
249 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
252 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
253 * Fix for key events and focus loss
256 * Fix display of some buttons
257 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
258 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
261 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
262 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
263 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
266 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
267 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
268 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
269 Thai translations update
270 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
273 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
274 --------------------------------
277 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
278 * fix the samba module compilation
279 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
280 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
281 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
282 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
285 * Support for MXPEG files
286 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
287 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
290 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
291 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
292 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
295 * Fix ogm header creation
298 * limit spatializer filter distortions
299 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
302 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
303 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
304 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
305 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
308 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
311 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
312 * allow to hide the sidebar
313 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
314 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
315 * noticebly faster launch time
316 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
317 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
318 * improve track synchronization panel
319 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
320 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
323 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
324 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
325 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
326 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
329 * fix for menus display
330 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
331 * documentation update
334 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
335 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
338 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
339 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
340 * Update Jamendo selections
344 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
345 * fix a crash on VLM close
348 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
349 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
350 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
351 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
354 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
357 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
358 ---------------------------------
361 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
362 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
363 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
364 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
365 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
366 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
367 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
368 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
369 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
370 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
371 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
372 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
373 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
374 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
375 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
376 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
377 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
378 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
379 --http-crl (optional CRL).
380 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
381 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
382 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
383 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
384 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
385 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
386 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
388 Important changes for packagers:
389 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
390 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
391 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
392 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
393 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
394 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
395 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
396 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
397 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
398 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
401 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
402 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
403 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
404 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
405 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
406 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
407 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
410 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
411 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
412 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
413 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
414 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
415 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
416 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
417 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
418 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
419 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
420 * PulseAudio audio input support
421 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
422 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
423 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
424 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
425 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
426 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
427 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
428 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
431 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
432 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
433 are notably concerned.
434 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
435 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
436 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
437 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
438 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
439 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
440 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
441 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
442 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
443 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
444 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
445 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
446 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
447 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
448 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
451 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
452 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
453 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
454 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
455 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
456 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
457 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
458 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
459 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
460 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
461 * Improved support of tracker files
462 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
465 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
466 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
467 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
468 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
469 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
470 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
471 and important cleanups and optimisations
472 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
473 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
474 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
475 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
476 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
477 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
478 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
479 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
480 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
481 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
482 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
483 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
484 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
485 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
486 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
487 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
488 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
489 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
490 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
491 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
492 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
495 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
496 * New video output for iOS platform
497 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
498 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
499 * Various vmem improvements
500 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
501 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
502 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
503 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
504 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
505 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
507 Audio Output and Filters:
508 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
509 * New audio output in memory (amem)
510 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
511 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
512 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
513 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
514 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
515 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
516 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
517 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
520 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
521 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
522 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
523 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
524 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
525 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
526 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
527 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
528 * New anti-flickering filter
529 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
530 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
531 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
532 blackbox and customizable shadow.
533 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
534 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
535 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
538 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
539 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
540 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
541 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
542 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
543 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
544 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
545 * Major rework of VoD support
546 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
547 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
548 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
549 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
550 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
551 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
552 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
553 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
554 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
555 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
558 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
559 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
562 * New capabilities for libVLC:
563 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
564 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
565 list of available audio and video filters
566 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
567 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
568 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
571 * asademux, subsass: use libass
572 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
573 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
575 * upnp: use upnp_intel
576 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
577 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
578 * removal of the noise filter
579 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
580 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
581 removed in Growl's next release, too.
582 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
585 * Update of translations for most languages.
586 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
589 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
590 ----------------------------------
593 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
594 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
597 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
598 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
601 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
602 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
603 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
606 * Camtasia decoding fix.
609 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
610 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
613 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
616 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
617 ----------------------------------
620 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
621 including support for OS X Lion
622 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
623 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
626 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
629 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
630 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
631 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
634 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
637 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
638 ----------------------------------
641 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
642 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
645 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
646 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
647 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
648 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
649 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
651 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
652 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
653 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
655 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
656 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
659 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
662 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
665 * Fix quitting on Linux
666 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
670 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
673 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
676 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
677 ---------------------------------
679 Windows and Mac OS X:
680 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
683 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
684 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
687 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
690 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
693 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
695 Miscellaneous fixes in:
696 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
698 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
699 * RTP output and XML export
700 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
704 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
705 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
706 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
707 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
710 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
711 --------------------------------
713 Windows and Mac OS X:
714 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
717 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
720 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
721 * Improve Apple Remote handling
722 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
723 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
724 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
725 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
728 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
729 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
733 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
734 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
735 * New Luganda Translation
738 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
739 --------------------------------
742 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
745 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
746 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
747 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
748 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
751 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
753 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
754 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
755 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
756 * mp4 demuxer improvements
757 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
758 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
759 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
760 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
762 Miscellaneous fixes in:
763 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
764 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
765 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
766 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
767 * Configure and build system improvements
768 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
771 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
772 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
773 * New icelandic translation
776 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
777 --------------------------------
780 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
784 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
785 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
786 and stability reasons
789 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
793 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
796 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
797 ----------------------------------
800 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
803 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
804 ---------------------------------
807 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
808 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
809 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
810 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
813 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
816 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
817 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
818 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
819 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
822 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
823 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
824 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
826 Subtitles and renderer:
827 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
828 * Mark more freetype options as safe
829 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
830 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
831 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
834 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
835 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
836 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
837 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
840 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
841 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
844 * KDE device solid actions
846 * Transcode integer overflow
847 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
848 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
851 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
852 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
853 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
856 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
857 ----------------------------------
860 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
864 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
867 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
870 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
871 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
872 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
873 * Taglib thread-safety fix
876 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
880 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
883 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
886 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
887 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
889 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
893 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
894 * Miscellaneous fixes
897 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
898 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
900 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
901 * New Asturian translation
904 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
905 ----------------------------------
908 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
910 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
913 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
916 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
917 * Various fixes for Windows
920 * New Armenian translation
921 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
922 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
925 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
926 --------------------------------
929 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
931 * Fix folders opening from the interface
934 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
935 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
938 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
939 --------------------------------
942 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
943 * fix for podcasts parsing
944 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
947 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
948 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
951 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
952 * fix m3u playlists exports
955 * fix video autoresize behaviour
958 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
961 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
964 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
967 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
970 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
971 --------------------------------
974 * Avformat fps displaying fix
975 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
978 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
979 of mono streams, especially on Windows
982 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
983 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
984 * fix console output encoding
986 Interface and extensions:
987 * Youtube and other scripts updates
988 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
991 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
992 --------------------------------
995 * New capabilities for libVLC:
996 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
997 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
998 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
999 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1000 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1001 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1002 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1003 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1004 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1005 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1006 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1007 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1008 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1009 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1010 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1014 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1015 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1016 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1017 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1018 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1021 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1024 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1025 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1026 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1030 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1033 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1034 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1035 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1038 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1039 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1040 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1041 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1044 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1045 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1048 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1049 --------------------------------
1051 Important changes for users:
1052 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1053 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1055 Important changes for packagers:
1056 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1057 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1058 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1059 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1060 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1062 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1064 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1065 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1066 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1067 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1068 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1071 * Support for the sftp protocol
1072 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1073 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1074 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1075 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1076 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1079 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1080 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1081 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1083 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1084 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1085 * Invmem module improvements
1086 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1087 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1088 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1089 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1090 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1091 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1092 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1093 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1094 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1095 * Support for VP8 codec
1096 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1099 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1100 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1101 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1102 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1103 * Various EGP improvements
1104 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1105 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1108 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1109 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1110 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1111 * Podcast images are now displayed
1114 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1115 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1116 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1117 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1118 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1119 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1120 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1121 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1122 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1123 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1124 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1127 * New content extensions lua framework
1130 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1131 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1132 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1133 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1134 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1135 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1136 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1139 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1140 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1141 * Service discovery based on libudev
1142 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1145 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1146 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1147 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1148 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1149 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1150 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1151 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1154 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1155 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1156 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1159 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1161 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1162 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1165 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1168 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1169 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1170 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1171 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1172 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1173 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1174 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1177 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1178 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1181 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1182 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1183 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1187 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1188 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1189 * Improved Solaris port
1192 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1193 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1196 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1197 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1198 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1199 * transrate: broken since too long
1200 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1201 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1202 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1203 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1204 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1205 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1206 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1207 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1208 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1209 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1210 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1211 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1212 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1213 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1216 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1217 --------------------------------
1220 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1222 Decoders/Packetizers:
1223 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1226 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1227 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1228 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1229 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1230 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1233 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1234 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1237 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1238 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1241 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1242 and Walloon translations updated
1243 * Sinhala translation started
1246 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1247 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1250 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1251 --------------------------------
1254 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1255 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1258 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1261 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1262 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1265 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1266 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1267 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1268 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1271 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1272 --------------------------------
1275 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1276 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1279 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1280 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1283 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1284 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1287 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1290 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1291 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1294 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1295 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1298 * New Walloon translation
1299 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1302 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1303 --------------------------------
1306 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1307 regressions in most popular drivers
1308 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1311 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1312 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1313 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1316 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1317 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1320 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1321 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1322 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1323 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1324 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1327 * New udev module for linux
1330 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1333 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1336 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1337 --------------------------------
1340 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1341 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1342 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1345 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1346 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1349 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1350 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1353 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1356 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1357 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1358 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1359 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1362 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1363 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1364 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1365 - no support for Goom and SDL
1366 - limited text rendering support
1367 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1370 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1371 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1372 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1373 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1374 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1375 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1376 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1377 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1378 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1382 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1385 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1388 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1389 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1390 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1391 Arabic and French translation updates
1394 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1395 --------------------------------
1398 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1399 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1400 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1401 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1402 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1403 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1406 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1407 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1408 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1411 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1412 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1413 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1416 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1419 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1420 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1423 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1424 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1425 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1426 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1427 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1428 * Fix various crashes
1431 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1433 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1437 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1438 ---------------------------------
1442 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1443 See 'Access:' for more info.
1444 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1447 * Instantaneous pausing
1448 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1449 * Finer speed control
1450 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1451 * Timeshift for most medias
1452 * RTSP trickplay support
1453 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1456 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1457 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1458 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1459 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1460 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1461 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1462 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1463 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1464 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1465 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1468 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1469 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1470 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1471 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1472 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1473 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1474 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1477 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1478 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1481 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1482 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1483 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1484 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1485 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1486 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1487 * DVB scanning on linux
1488 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1489 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1490 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1491 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1492 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1493 * MTP device access on Unix
1494 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1495 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1498 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1499 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1500 Windows and Mac OS X.
1503 * Export the playlist in HTML
1504 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1505 * Better metadata handling and reading
1507 Linux/Windows interface:
1508 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1509 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1510 * Recently played items list
1511 * Interface toolbar customizations
1512 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1513 - More menus actions
1514 - Finer speed slider
1515 - Improvements on many dialogs
1516 - New dialog for plugins listing
1517 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1518 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1519 * Better integration in GTK environments
1522 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1523 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1524 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1525 * Additional usability improvements
1528 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1529 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1530 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1531 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1532 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1535 * New Maemo port with:
1536 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1537 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1540 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1543 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1544 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1545 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1546 * Support for latest iSight models
1549 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1550 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1553 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1554 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1555 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1556 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1557 The old image video output has been removed.
1558 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1559 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1562 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1570 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1571 --------------------------------------
1577 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1578 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1579 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1580 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1581 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1582 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1583 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1585 Various fixes to the following modules:
1588 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1589 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1590 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1592 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1597 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1598 ---------------------------------
1601 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1602 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1605 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1606 ---------------------------------
1609 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1612 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1615 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1616 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1617 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1618 main controller window.
1619 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1622 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1627 * Updates of other localizations
1630 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1631 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1632 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1633 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1634 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1637 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1638 ---------------------------------
1641 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1643 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1646 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1647 --------------------------------
1652 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1653 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1656 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1657 --------------------------------
1659 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1660 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1663 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1666 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1667 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1670 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1671 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1674 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1675 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1676 * Various fixed in playlist
1679 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1682 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1685 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1686 ------------------------------------
1688 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1689 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1692 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1693 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1694 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1697 * Stability fix for the video output.
1700 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1701 --------------------------------
1704 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1705 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1706 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1707 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1708 * Fixed update system bugs
1709 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1712 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1713 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1714 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1715 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1716 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1717 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1718 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1719 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1720 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1721 modern Mac OS X versions
1724 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1725 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1727 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1728 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1731 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1732 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1733 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1734 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1735 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1736 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1739 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1740 --------------------------------
1742 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1743 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1744 * Multiple bugfixes.
1747 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1748 --------------------------------
1750 * Multiple bug fixes.
1753 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1754 ---------------------------------
1758 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1759 recent to work correctly
1760 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1761 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1762 edit the ".hosts" file.
1763 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1764 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1765 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1766 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1767 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1768 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1769 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1770 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1771 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1772 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1773 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1774 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1775 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1776 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1777 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1778 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1779 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1780 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1781 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1782 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1783 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1784 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1785 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1786 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1787 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1788 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1789 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1790 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1791 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1792 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1793 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1794 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1795 and postproc modules.
1796 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1797 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1798 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1799 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1801 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1802 filter. For example:
1803 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1804 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1806 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1807 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1813 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1815 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1816 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1819 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1820 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1822 * Shoutcast TV listings
1823 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1825 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1826 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1828 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1831 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1832 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1833 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1834 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1835 * JACK audio input support
1836 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1837 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1838 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1839 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1840 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1841 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1842 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1843 (available as a separate download).
1844 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1845 * RTMP input support
1846 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1847 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1848 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1850 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1851 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1854 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1855 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1856 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1857 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1859 * APEv1/2 tags support
1860 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1861 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1863 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1864 * TiVo Series 2 support
1865 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1870 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1871 * Flash Screen Video support
1872 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1873 * DosBox Capture support
1874 * Karl Morton's Video support
1875 * limited atrac3 support
1877 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1878 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1879 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1880 * H.264 PAFF support
1881 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1882 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1883 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1884 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1885 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1888 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1889 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1890 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1891 * AQTitle subtitles support
1892 * MKV USF subtitles support
1893 * HTML-based subtitles support
1894 * MPSub subtitles support
1895 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1896 * MPL2 subtitles support
1897 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1898 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1899 * Realtext subtitle support
1900 * DKS subtitle support
1901 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1902 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1905 * Flash Screen Video support
1906 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1908 Video outputs and filters:
1909 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1910 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1911 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1912 * New puzzle video output filter
1913 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1914 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1916 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1917 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1918 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1919 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1920 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1921 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1922 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1923 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1924 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1925 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1926 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1927 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1928 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1929 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1931 Audio outputs and filters:
1932 * Replay gain support
1933 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1934 new scaletempo audio filter)
1935 * New spatializer audio filter
1936 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1939 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1940 * New RTP payload formats:
1941 * Speex voice audio codec
1942 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1943 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1944 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1945 * DCCP transport for RTP
1946 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1951 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1952 end-user suitable way.
1953 * Improved user interaction
1954 * Improved mouse gestures
1955 * Vastly improved Update checker
1956 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1958 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1959 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1961 * Improved video output features
1962 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1963 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1964 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1965 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1966 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1968 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1969 if libncursesw is available.
1970 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1971 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1972 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1974 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1975 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1976 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1977 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1978 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1979 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1980 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1981 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1984 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1985 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1986 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1989 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1990 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1991 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1992 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1993 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1994 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1997 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1998 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2008 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2009 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2010 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2013 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2014 ----------------------------------
2017 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2020 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2021 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2022 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2023 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2024 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2025 * Updated Polish translation
2028 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2029 ----------------------------------
2032 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2033 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2034 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2037 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2038 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2039 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2040 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2041 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2042 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2043 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2044 to an unexpected application termination
2045 * New Serbian translation
2046 * Updated Romanian translation
2049 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2050 ----------------------------------
2053 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2054 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2055 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2056 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2057 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2058 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2059 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2060 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2063 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2064 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2065 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2066 * Fixed AAC resampling
2067 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2068 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2071 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2072 ----------------------------------
2075 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2076 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2077 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2078 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2079 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2082 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2083 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2084 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2085 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2086 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2089 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2090 ----------------------------------
2093 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2094 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2097 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2098 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2099 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2100 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2102 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2106 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2109 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2112 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2115 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2118 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2119 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2120 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2121 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2122 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2124 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2125 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2126 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2127 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2130 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2133 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2134 ----------------------------------
2137 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2138 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2139 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2141 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2142 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2144 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2145 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2148 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2150 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2151 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2152 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2153 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2154 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2155 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2156 two different movies
2157 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2158 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2159 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2162 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2165 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2166 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2167 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2168 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2171 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2172 ----------------------------------
2174 Various bugfixes, notably:
2175 * Windows Vista compatibility
2176 * Cropping in Direct3D
2177 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2178 * RSS filter string overflow
2180 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2182 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2183 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2186 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2187 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2190 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2193 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2196 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2199 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2200 ----------------------------------
2202 Various bugfixes, notably:
2203 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2204 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2205 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2206 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2207 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2208 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2211 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2212 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2215 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2217 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2218 * Diverse usability improvements
2219 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2220 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2221 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2224 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2225 ---------------------------------
2227 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2228 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2231 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2234 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2235 --------------------------------
2238 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2241 * Support for RTSP authentication
2242 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2243 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2244 * ATSC support for DVB input
2245 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2246 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2247 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2250 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2251 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2252 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2253 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2254 * Matroska WavPack support
2255 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2256 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2257 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2260 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2261 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2262 * Improved libcaca support
2266 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2267 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2269 * Systray support in skins
2271 * Support for Apple Remote control
2272 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2273 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2274 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2275 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2277 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2280 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2281 Windows 9x/ME users:
2282 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2283 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2284 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2285 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2286 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2288 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2289 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2298 * Updates to the libvlc API
2299 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2302 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2303 --------------------------------
2306 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2307 * Support for downloading updates
2311 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2312 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2313 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2314 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2316 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2317 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2318 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2321 * Cook (Real audio) support
2323 Playlist / Services discovery:
2324 * XSPF playlist support
2326 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2329 * New JACK audio output
2332 * New video filters:
2333 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2334 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2335 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2336 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2337 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2338 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2341 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2344 * System to inform the user and request information
2345 - HTTP authentication
2349 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2350 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2351 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2354 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2355 - Improved playlist handling
2356 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2358 - Embedded Video output
2359 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2360 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2361 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2362 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2363 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2365 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2366 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2369 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2372 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2373 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2374 * Growl "Now playing" support
2377 * Ability to log to syslog
2378 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2381 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2383 * A bit more automatic testing
2386 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2387 ---------------------------------
2390 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2391 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2394 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2395 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2398 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2401 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2402 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2408 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2411 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2412 --------------------------------
2415 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2419 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2420 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2421 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2424 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2425 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2426 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2427 * GnomeVFS input module
2428 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2429 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2432 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2433 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2434 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2437 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2438 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2444 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2445 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2448 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2449 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2450 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2453 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2455 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2456 - New extended controls panel
2457 - New bookmarks window
2458 - Fixed playlist sorting
2459 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2461 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2462 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2463 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2464 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2468 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2469 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2471 - Include macro to include other files
2475 * Should now work outside IE as well
2478 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2481 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2482 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2485 The following languages were added:
2489 * Simplified Chinese
2490 The following languages were re-added:
2494 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2495 --------------------------------
2498 * Rewrite of the playlist
2500 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2501 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2502 * Preferences improvements:
2503 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2504 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2506 * Core image manipulation support
2507 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2508 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2509 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2510 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2511 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2512 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2513 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2514 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2515 * Access filter architecture
2516 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2517 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2521 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2522 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2523 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2524 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2525 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2526 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2527 * Massive Matroska improvements
2528 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2530 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2531 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2532 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2533 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2534 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2536 Decoders / Encoders:
2537 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2538 * PNG decoder/encoder
2539 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2540 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2543 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2546 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2547 * Brand new SAP module
2548 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2549 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2550 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2551 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2552 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2553 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2557 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2560 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2561 * Image file video output (png)
2562 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2563 * Improvements to wall video filter
2564 * Support for font color and opacity
2570 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2571 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2572 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2576 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2577 - Improved preferences
2578 - Improvements to the wizard
2579 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2581 - Redesigned playlist
2582 - Improved preferences
2584 - Support for multiple actions
2587 - Support for the new playlist system
2589 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2592 * Screensaver disabling fix
2593 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2594 * Support for no-decoration windows
2597 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2598 * The OpenGL video output is back
2599 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2600 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2601 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2602 is not yet available in the new module
2603 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2606 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2615 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2618 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2621 The following languages were added:
2627 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2628 --------------------------------
2631 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2632 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2635 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2636 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2637 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2640 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2643 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2646 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2649 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2650 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2651 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2655 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2657 * Support of playlist group announcement
2660 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2661 --------------------------------
2664 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2665 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2666 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2667 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2668 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2669 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2672 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2673 (Stream your desktop)
2674 * Improved DVD support:
2675 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2676 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2677 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2678 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2679 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2680 (selection of titles/chapters).
2683 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2684 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2685 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2686 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2687 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2688 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2689 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2690 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2691 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2692 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2695 * G.726 audio support
2696 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2697 * MPEG-4 text support
2698 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2699 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2700 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2704 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2705 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2706 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2707 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2708 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2709 * DVB subtitles encoder
2710 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2711 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2713 * Text track muxing for mp4
2714 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2715 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2716 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2717 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2718 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2719 * Improved ASF muxer
2721 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2722 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2723 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2726 * New audio equalizer filter
2727 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2728 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2729 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2730 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2733 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2734 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2735 with support for effects.
2736 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2737 - New filters can be streamed.
2738 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2739 - Centralized scaling and blending
2741 - "time", to display current time
2742 - "marq", to display a marquee
2745 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2746 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2747 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2748 * A few skins2 improvements
2749 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2750 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2751 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2752 * Improved CORBA control module
2755 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2756 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2757 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2760 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2761 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2762 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2765 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2766 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2767 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2768 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2769 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2772 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2775 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2776 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2779 * Server/client network synchronization module
2780 * VBrick streams fully supported
2781 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2785 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2786 --------------------------------
2789 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2790 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2791 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2792 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2795 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2796 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2797 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2798 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2799 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2800 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2801 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2804 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2805 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2806 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2807 * Improved directory access module.
2808 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2809 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2810 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2811 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2812 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2815 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2816 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2817 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2820 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2821 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2822 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2825 * Improved session announcement system.
2826 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2827 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2828 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2829 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2830 * Improved transrater.
2831 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2832 * New configuration system.
2833 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2836 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2837 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2838 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2839 * Supports scheduling.
2840 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2841 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2844 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2845 - Ability to embed video output.
2846 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2847 - Lots of improvements.
2848 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2849 - New design and set of icons.
2850 - Ability to embed video output.
2851 - Support for hotkeys.
2852 - Support for bookmarks.
2854 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2855 - Better hotkeys handling.
2858 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2859 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2860 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2861 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2864 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2865 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2866 * Improved Windows installer.
2872 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2873 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2876 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2877 ---------------------------------
2880 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2881 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2884 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2885 --------------------------------
2888 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2889 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2892 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2893 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2894 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2895 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2898 * Internal improvments
2899 * Improved import/export
2902 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2904 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2905 small and strange formats.
2907 * New MOD audio demux.
2908 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2909 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2910 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2911 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2914 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2915 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2916 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2922 * New opengl video output plugin.
2925 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2926 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2929 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2930 --------------------------------
2933 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2934 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2935 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2936 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2937 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2938 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2939 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2940 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2943 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2948 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2949 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2950 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2951 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2952 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2953 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2954 * Better Icecast support.
2955 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2956 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2959 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2960 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2961 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2962 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2963 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2964 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2965 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2968 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2969 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2970 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2971 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2972 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2973 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2974 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2975 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2976 * Preliminary RTP support.
2977 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2982 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2983 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2985 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2986 - Improvements and help in preferences
2987 - New streaming wizard
2988 - Revised Disc Open menu
2990 - Improvements of the standard pages
2991 - Support for new commands
2992 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2995 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2996 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2999 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3000 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3001 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3002 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3003 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3004 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3005 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3006 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3007 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3010 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3012 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3013 * Support for Panther.
3014 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3015 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3018 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3019 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3020 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3021 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3022 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3023 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3024 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3025 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3028 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3029 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3030 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3033 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3036 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3037 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3038 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3039 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3042 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3043 --------------------------------
3046 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3049 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3050 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3053 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3054 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3057 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3060 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3061 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3064 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3067 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3070 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3071 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3075 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3076 --------------------------------
3079 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3080 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3084 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3085 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3086 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3088 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3089 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3092 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3095 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3098 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3099 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3103 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3104 --------------------------------
3107 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3108 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3112 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3113 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3114 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3115 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3116 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3119 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3120 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3121 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3124 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3125 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3126 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3129 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3130 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3131 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3132 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3133 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3136 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3137 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3138 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3141 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3144 * Improved build system.
3145 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3146 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3147 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3148 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3151 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3152 --------------------------------
3155 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3158 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3159 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3160 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3161 * Video 4 Linux support
3162 * CD Digital Audio support
3163 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3166 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3167 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3168 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3169 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3172 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3173 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3174 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3175 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3176 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3177 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3178 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3181 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3182 * New HTTP remote control interface
3185 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3186 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3187 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3188 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3189 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3192 * New reset option for the preferences
3193 * You can set your language in the prefences
3194 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3195 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3196 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3197 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3200 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3201 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3202 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3205 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3206 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3207 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3208 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3209 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3210 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3211 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3212 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3213 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3214 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3217 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3218 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3219 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3220 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3221 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3222 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3223 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3226 * Interface localization
3227 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3228 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3229 * New full-featured Preferences window
3232 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3233 --------------------------------
3236 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3237 * support for skins at the interface level
3238 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3239 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3240 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3241 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3242 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3245 * fixed HTTP redirects
3246 * support for opening an entire directory
3247 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3248 * new video4linux access plug-in
3249 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3252 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3253 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3254 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3257 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3258 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3259 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3260 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3261 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3262 * new codec for raw I420 video
3263 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3266 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3267 (although it still misses some important features)
3268 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3271 * new HTTP output support
3272 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3273 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3276 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3279 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3282 * reorderable playlist
3283 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3284 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3285 * support for mono audio output devices
3286 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3287 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3288 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3289 * the messages window remembers more lines
3290 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3291 * http and ogg stream output options
3292 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3295 * new skinnable interface
3296 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3298 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3299 * support for FLAC audio format
3300 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3302 * network tab in the interface
3303 * "apply" handling in preferences
3306 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3307 ---------------------------------
3310 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3311 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3312 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3313 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3315 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3316 * DTS S/PDIF support
3319 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3320 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3321 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3322 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3325 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3326 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3329 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3332 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3335 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3337 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3338 * rc interface is now fully useable
3339 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3342 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3343 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3344 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3345 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3346 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3348 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3349 * support for mouse gestures
3350 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3353 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3354 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3357 * improved ID3 tag detection
3358 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3359 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3360 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3362 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3365 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3366 ---------------------------------
3369 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3370 English was set as the preferred language
3373 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3374 --------------------------------
3377 * new mouse gesture interface
3378 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3382 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3383 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3384 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3387 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3388 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3392 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3395 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3396 without the user consent
3399 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3401 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3402 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3403 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3406 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3407 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3408 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3409 * playlist enhancements
3410 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3411 * new step forward/step backward commands
3412 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3413 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3414 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3417 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3418 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3419 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3422 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3423 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3426 * native video output is working again
3427 * only commandline interface support
3428 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3431 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3432 --------------------------------
3435 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3436 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3437 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3438 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3439 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3440 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3441 and A/52 streams are supported)
3442 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3447 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3448 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3449 * VCD entry points support
3450 * VCD image file support
3453 * support for *.asf format
3454 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3455 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3456 * support for ogg encapsulation
3457 * support for raw DV format
3458 * support for *.wav format
3459 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3462 Stream discovery & playlists:
3463 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3464 * support for .m3u file format
3465 * support for .asx file format
3466 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3469 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3470 (only available with the .avi demux)
3471 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3472 * support for raw PCM data
3473 * support for Cinepak video codec
3474 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3475 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3476 * support for Xvid codec
3477 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3478 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3479 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3481 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3483 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3486 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3489 * new WxWindows interface
3490 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3491 device and the channels configuration
3492 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3493 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3494 format that VLC can play
3495 * new swedish translation
3496 * enhancements of the playlist window
3497 * new messages window to see debug info
3498 * fixed a few crashes
3501 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3502 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3503 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3504 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working