1 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
6 * Support for the sftp protocol
7 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
8 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
9 * New memory input (imem) module to feed VLC from data in memory
10 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams
13 * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
14 * PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
15 * Invmem module improvements
16 * Support for Atrac1 codec
17 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities
18 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
19 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
20 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
21 * Audio/Video decoder using OpenMAX IL components
24 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
25 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
26 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
27 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
28 * Various EGP improvements
29 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
32 * WPL playlist support
33 * ZPL playlist support
34 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
35 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
36 * Podcast images are now displayed
39 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
40 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
41 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
42 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
43 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
44 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
45 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
46 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
47 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
48 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
49 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
52 * new content extensions lua framework
56 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
57 * 3F1R to stereo downmix filter
58 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler,
59 linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and
60 A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
61 * NEON assembly audio converter module
62 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
65 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
68 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
69 * Service discovery based on libudev
72 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
73 * x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example
74 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
75 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
76 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
77 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
80 * New smem module, streaming to memory
81 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
82 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
85 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
87 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
90 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
93 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
94 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
95 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
96 by Andy Matuschak et al.
97 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
100 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
101 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
104 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
105 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
106 * Improvements to the maemo interface
110 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
111 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
114 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
117 * csri codec. Use libass module instead.
118 * galaktos. Use new projectM module instead.
119 * showintf. Useless in qt and mac os X
121 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use new XCB modules instead.
122 * HAL. Use libudev instead.
123 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
124 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
125 * opie, qte and qte_main
126 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed. Use the ugly one.
127 * XvMC accelerated modules. Use VAAPI instead.
128 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux. Use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
130 * cddax. Use cdda instead
131 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
132 * realaudio codecs is remove in favour of avcodec
133 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
136 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
137 --------------------------------
140 * SubRip extra styles improvements
141 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
144 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
147 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
148 increase performance and fix x264 issues
151 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithunanian, Romanian, Ukranian, Japanese, Bengali,
152 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
153 Russian, Slovak translation updates
154 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
157 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
158 --------------------------------
161 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
162 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
165 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
166 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
169 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
170 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
173 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
176 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
177 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
180 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
181 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
184 * New Walloon translation
185 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
188 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
189 --------------------------------
192 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
193 regressions in most popular drivers
194 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
197 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
198 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
199 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
202 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
203 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
206 * Update for appletrailers lua script
207 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
208 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
209 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
210 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
213 * New udev module for linux
216 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
219 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
222 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
223 --------------------------------
226 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
227 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
228 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
231 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
232 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
235 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
236 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
239 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
242 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
243 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
244 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
245 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
248 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
249 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
250 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
251 - no support for Goom and SDL
252 - limited text rendering support
253 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
256 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
257 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
258 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
259 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
260 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
261 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
262 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
263 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
264 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
268 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
271 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
274 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
275 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
276 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
277 Arabic and French translation updates
280 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
281 --------------------------------
284 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
285 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
286 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
287 * Fix Dailymotion access script
288 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
289 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
292 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
293 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
296 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
297 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
298 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
301 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
304 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
305 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
308 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
309 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
310 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
311 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
312 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
313 * Fix various crashes
316 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
318 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
321 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
322 ---------------------------------
326 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
327 See 'Access:' for more info.
328 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
331 * Instantaneous pausing
332 * Frame-by-Frame playback
333 * Finer speed control
334 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
335 * Timeshift for most medias
336 * RTSP trickplay support
337 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
340 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
341 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
342 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
343 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
344 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
345 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
346 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
347 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
348 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
349 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
352 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
353 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
354 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
355 * Metadata for mod files are supported
356 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
357 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
358 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
361 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
362 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
365 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
366 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
367 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
368 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
369 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
370 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
371 * DVB scanning on linux
372 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
373 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
374 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
375 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
376 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
377 * MTP device access on Unix
378 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
379 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
382 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
383 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
384 Windows and Mac OS X.
387 * Export the playlist in HTML
388 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
389 * Better metadata handling and reading
391 Linux/Windows interface:
392 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
393 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
394 * Recently played items list
395 * Interface toolbar customizations
396 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
399 - Improvements on many dialogs
400 - New dialog for plugins listing
401 - Fixed-size mode for videos
402 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
403 * Better integration in GTK environments
406 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
407 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
408 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
409 * Additional usability improvements
412 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
413 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
414 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
415 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
416 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
419 * New Maemo port with:
420 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
421 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
424 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
427 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
428 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
429 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
430 * Support for latest iSight models
433 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
434 * Surround support for PulseAudio
437 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
438 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
439 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
440 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
441 The old image video output has been removed.
442 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
443 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
446 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
454 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
455 --------------------------------------
461 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
462 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
463 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
464 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
465 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
466 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
467 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
469 Various fixes to the following modules:
472 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
473 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
476 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
481 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
482 ---------------------------------
485 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
486 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
489 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
490 ---------------------------------
493 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
496 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
499 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
500 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
501 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
502 main controller window.
503 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
506 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
511 * Updates of other localizations
514 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
515 * Lots of small bugfixes.
516 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
517 * Telnet fixes on Windows
518 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
521 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
522 ---------------------------------
525 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
527 Bunch of small bugfixes.
530 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
531 --------------------------------
536 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
537 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
540 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
541 --------------------------------
543 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
544 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
547 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
550 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
551 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
554 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
555 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
558 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
559 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
560 * Various fixed in playlist
563 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
566 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
569 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
570 ------------------------------------
572 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
573 * Fixes several memory leaks.
576 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
577 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
578 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
581 * Stability fix for the video output.
584 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
585 --------------------------------
588 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
589 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
590 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
591 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
592 * Fixed update system bugs
593 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
596 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
597 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
598 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
599 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
600 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
601 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
602 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
603 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
604 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
605 modern Mac OS X versions
608 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
609 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
611 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
612 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
615 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
616 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
617 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
618 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
619 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
620 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
623 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
624 --------------------------------
626 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
627 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
631 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
632 --------------------------------
634 * Multiple bug fixes.
637 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
638 ---------------------------------
642 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
643 recent to work correctly
644 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
645 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
646 edit the ".hosts" file.
647 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
648 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
649 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
650 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
651 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
652 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
653 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
654 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
655 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
656 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
657 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
658 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
659 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
660 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
661 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
662 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
663 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
664 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
665 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
666 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
667 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
668 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
669 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
670 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
671 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
672 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
673 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
674 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
675 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
676 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
677 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
678 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
679 and postproc modules.
680 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
681 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
682 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
683 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
685 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
687 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
688 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
690 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
691 * Glide video output module has been removed.
697 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
699 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
700 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
703 * Vastly improved playlist support:
704 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
706 * Shoutcast TV listings
707 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
709 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
710 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
712 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
715 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
716 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
717 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
718 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
719 * JACK audio input support
720 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
721 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
722 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
723 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
724 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
725 * Experimental EyeTV access module
726 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
727 (available as a separate download).
728 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
730 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
731 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
732 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
734 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
735 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
738 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
739 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
740 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
741 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
743 * APEv1/2 tags support
744 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
745 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
747 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
748 * TiVo Series 2 support
749 * CD+G karaoke Files support
754 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
755 * Flash Screen Video support
756 * CamStudio Screen Video support
757 * DosBox Capture support
758 * Karl Morton's Video support
759 * limited atrac3 support
761 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
762 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
763 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
765 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
766 * NellyMoser ASAO support
767 * APE (Monkey audio) support
768 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
769 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
772 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
773 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
774 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
775 * AQTitle subtitles support
776 * MKV USF subtitles support
777 * HTML-based subtitles support
778 * MPSub subtitles support
779 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
780 * MPL2 subtitles support
781 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
782 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
783 * Realtext subtitle support
784 * DKS subtitle support
785 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
786 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
789 * Flash Screen Video support
790 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
792 Video outputs and filters:
793 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
794 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
795 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
796 * New puzzle video output filter
797 * Re-written motion detection video filter
798 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
800 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
801 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
802 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
803 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
804 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
805 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
806 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
807 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
808 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
809 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
810 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
811 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
812 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
813 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
815 Audio outputs and filters:
816 * Replay gain support
817 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
818 new scaletempo audio filter)
819 * New spatializer audio filter
820 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
823 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
824 * New RTP payload formats:
825 * Speex voice audio codec
826 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
827 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
828 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
829 * DCCP transport for RTP
830 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
835 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
836 end-user suitable way.
837 * Improved user interaction
838 * Improved mouse gestures
839 * Vastly improved Update checker
840 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
842 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
843 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
845 * Improved video output features
846 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
847 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
848 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
849 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
850 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
852 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
853 if libncursesw is available.
854 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
855 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
856 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
858 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
859 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
860 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
861 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
862 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
863 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
864 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
865 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
868 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
869 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
870 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
873 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
874 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
875 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
876 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
877 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
878 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
881 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
882 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
892 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
893 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
894 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
897 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
898 ----------------------------------
901 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
904 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
905 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
906 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
907 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
908 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
909 * Updated Polish translation
912 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
913 ----------------------------------
916 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
917 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
918 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
921 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
922 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
923 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
924 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
925 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
926 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
927 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
928 to an unexpected application termination
929 * New Serbian translation
930 * Updated Romanian translation
933 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
934 ----------------------------------
937 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
938 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
939 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
940 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
941 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
942 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
943 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
944 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
947 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
948 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
949 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
950 * Fixed AAC resampling
951 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
952 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
955 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
956 ----------------------------------
959 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
960 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
961 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
962 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
963 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
966 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
967 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
968 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
969 * Close MMS access on network timeout
970 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
973 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
974 ----------------------------------
977 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
978 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
981 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
982 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
983 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
984 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
986 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
990 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
993 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
996 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
999 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1002 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1003 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1004 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1005 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1006 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1008 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1009 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1010 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1011 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1014 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1017 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1018 ----------------------------------
1021 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1022 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1023 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1025 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1026 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1028 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1029 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1032 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1034 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1035 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1036 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1037 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1038 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1039 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1040 two different movies
1041 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1042 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1043 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1046 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1049 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1050 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1051 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1052 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1055 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1056 ----------------------------------
1058 Various bugfixes, notably:
1059 * Windows Vista compatibility
1060 * Cropping in Direct3D
1061 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1062 * RSS filter string overflow
1064 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1066 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1067 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1070 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1071 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1074 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1077 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1080 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1083 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1084 ----------------------------------
1086 Various bugfixes, notably:
1087 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1088 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1089 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1090 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1091 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1092 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1095 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1096 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1099 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1101 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1102 * Diverse usability improvements
1103 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1104 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1105 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1108 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1109 ---------------------------------
1111 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1112 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1115 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1118 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1119 --------------------------------
1122 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1125 * Support for RTSP authentication
1126 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1127 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1128 * ATSC support for DVB input
1129 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1130 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1131 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1134 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1135 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1136 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1137 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1138 * Matroska WavPack support
1139 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1140 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1141 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1144 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1145 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1146 * Improved libcaca support
1150 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1151 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1153 * Systray support in skins
1155 * Support for Apple Remote control
1156 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1157 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1158 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1159 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1161 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1164 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1165 Windows 9x/ME users:
1166 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1167 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1168 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1169 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1170 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1172 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1173 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1182 * Updates to the libvlc API
1183 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1186 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1187 --------------------------------
1190 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1191 * Support for downloading updates
1195 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1196 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1197 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1198 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1200 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1201 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1202 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1205 * Cook (Real audio) support
1207 Playlist / Services discovery:
1208 * XSPF playlist support
1210 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1213 * New JACK audio output
1216 * New video filters:
1217 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1218 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1219 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1220 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1221 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1222 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1225 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1228 * System to inform the user and request information
1229 - HTTP authentication
1233 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1234 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1235 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1238 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1239 - Improved playlist handling
1240 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1242 - Embedded Video output
1243 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1244 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1245 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1246 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1247 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1249 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1250 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1253 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1256 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1257 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1258 * Growl "Now playing" support
1261 * Ability to log to syslog
1262 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1265 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1267 * A bit more automatic testing
1270 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1271 ---------------------------------
1274 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1275 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1278 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1279 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1282 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1285 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1286 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1292 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1295 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1296 --------------------------------
1299 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1303 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1304 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1305 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1308 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1309 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1310 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1311 * GnomeVFS input module
1312 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1313 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1316 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1317 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1318 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1321 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1322 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1328 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1329 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1332 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1333 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1334 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1337 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1339 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1340 - New extended controls panel
1341 - New bookmarks window
1342 - Fixed playlist sorting
1343 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1345 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1346 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1347 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1348 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1352 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1353 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1355 - Include macro to include other files
1359 * Should now work outside IE as well
1362 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1365 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1366 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1369 The following languages were added:
1373 * Simplified Chinese
1374 The following languages were re-added:
1378 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1379 --------------------------------
1382 * Rewrite of the playlist
1384 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1385 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1386 * Preferences improvements:
1387 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1388 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1390 * Core image manipulation support
1391 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1392 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1393 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1394 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1395 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1396 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1397 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1398 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1399 * Access filter architecture
1400 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1401 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1405 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1406 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1407 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1408 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1409 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1410 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1411 * Massive Matroska improvements
1412 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1414 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1415 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1416 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1417 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1418 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1420 Decoders / Encoders:
1421 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1422 * PNG decoder/encoder
1423 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1424 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1427 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1430 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1431 * Brand new SAP module
1432 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1433 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1434 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1435 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1436 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1437 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1441 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1444 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1445 * Image file video output (png)
1446 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1447 * Improvements to wall video filter
1448 * Support for font color and opacity
1454 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1455 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1456 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1460 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1461 - Improved preferences
1462 - Improvements to the wizard
1463 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1465 - Redesigned playlist
1466 - Improved preferences
1468 - Support for multiple actions
1471 - Support for the new playlist system
1473 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1476 * Screensaver disabling fix
1477 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1478 * Support for no-decoration windows
1481 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1482 * The OpenGL video output is back
1483 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1484 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1485 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1486 is not yet available in the new module
1487 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1490 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1499 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1502 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1505 The following languages were added:
1511 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1512 --------------------------------
1515 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1516 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1519 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1520 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1521 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1524 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1527 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1530 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1533 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1534 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1535 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1539 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1541 * Support of playlist group announcement
1544 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1545 --------------------------------
1548 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1549 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1550 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1551 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1552 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1553 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1556 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1557 (Stream your desktop)
1558 * Improved DVD support:
1559 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1560 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1561 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1562 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1563 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1564 (selection of titles/chapters).
1567 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1568 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1569 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1570 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1571 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1572 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1573 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1574 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1575 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1576 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1579 * G.726 audio support
1580 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1581 * MPEG-4 text support
1582 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1583 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1584 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1588 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1589 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1590 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1591 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1592 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1593 * DVB subtitles encoder
1594 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1595 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1597 * Text track muxing for mp4
1598 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1599 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1600 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1601 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1602 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1603 * Improved ASF muxer
1605 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1606 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1607 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1610 * New audio equalizer filter
1611 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1612 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1613 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1614 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1617 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1618 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1619 with support for effects.
1620 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1621 - New filters can be streamed.
1622 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1623 - Centralized scaling and blending
1625 - "time", to display current time
1626 - "marq", to display a marquee
1629 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1630 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1631 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1632 * A few skins2 improvements
1633 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1634 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1635 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1636 * Improved CORBA control module
1639 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1640 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1641 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1644 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1645 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1646 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1649 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1650 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1651 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1652 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1653 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1656 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1659 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1660 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1663 * Server/client network synchronization module
1664 * VBrick streams fully supported
1665 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1669 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1670 --------------------------------
1673 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1674 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1675 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1676 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1679 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1680 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1681 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1682 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1683 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1684 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1685 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1688 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1689 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1690 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1691 * Improved directory access module.
1692 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1693 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1694 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1695 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1696 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1699 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1700 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1701 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1704 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1705 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1706 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1709 * Improved session announcement system.
1710 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1711 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1712 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1713 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1714 * Improved transrater.
1715 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1716 * New configuration system.
1717 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1720 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1721 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1722 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1723 * Supports scheduling.
1724 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1725 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1728 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1729 - Ability to embed video output.
1730 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1731 - Lots of improvements.
1732 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1733 - New design and set of icons.
1734 - Ability to embed video output.
1735 - Support for hotkeys.
1736 - Support for bookmarks.
1738 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1739 - Better hotkeys handling.
1742 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1743 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1744 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1745 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1748 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1749 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1750 * Improved Windows installer.
1756 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1757 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1760 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1761 ---------------------------------
1764 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1765 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1768 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1769 --------------------------------
1772 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1773 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1776 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1777 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1778 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1779 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1782 * Internal improvments
1783 * Improved import/export
1786 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1788 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1789 small and strange formats.
1791 * New MOD audio demux.
1792 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1793 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1794 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1795 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1798 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1799 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1800 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1806 * New opengl video output plugin.
1809 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1810 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1813 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1814 --------------------------------
1817 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1818 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1819 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1820 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1821 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1822 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1823 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1824 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1827 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1832 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1833 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1834 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1835 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1836 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1837 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1838 * Better Icecast support.
1839 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1840 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1843 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1844 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1845 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1846 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1847 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1848 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1849 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1852 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1853 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1854 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1855 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1856 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1857 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1858 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1859 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1860 * Preliminary RTP support.
1861 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1866 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1867 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1869 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1870 - Improvements and help in preferences
1871 - New streaming wizard
1872 - Revised Disc Open menu
1874 - Improvements of the standard pages
1875 - Support for new commands
1876 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1879 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1880 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1883 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1884 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1885 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1886 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1887 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1888 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1889 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1890 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1891 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1894 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1896 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1897 * Support for Panther.
1898 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1899 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1902 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1903 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1904 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1905 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1906 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1907 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1908 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1909 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1912 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1913 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1914 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1917 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1920 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1921 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1922 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1923 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1926 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1927 --------------------------------
1930 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1933 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1934 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1937 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1938 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1941 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1944 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1945 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1948 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1951 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1954 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1955 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1959 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1960 --------------------------------
1963 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1964 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1968 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1969 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1970 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1972 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1973 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1976 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1979 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1982 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1983 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1987 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1988 --------------------------------
1991 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1992 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1996 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1997 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1998 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1999 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2000 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2003 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2004 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2005 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2008 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2009 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2010 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2013 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2014 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2015 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2016 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2017 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2020 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2021 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2022 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2025 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2028 * Improved build system.
2029 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2030 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2031 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2032 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2035 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2036 --------------------------------
2039 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2042 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2043 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2044 * Video 4 Linux support
2045 * CD Digital Audio support
2046 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2049 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2050 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2051 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2052 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2055 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2056 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2057 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2058 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2059 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2060 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2061 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2064 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2065 * New HTTP remote control interface
2068 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2069 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2070 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2071 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2074 * New reset option for the preferences
2075 * You can set your language in the prefences
2076 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2077 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2078 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2079 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2082 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2083 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2084 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2087 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2088 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2089 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2090 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2091 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2092 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2093 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2094 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2095 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2096 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2099 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2100 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2101 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2102 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2103 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2104 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2105 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2108 * Interface localization
2109 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2110 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2111 * New full-featured Preferences window
2114 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2115 --------------------------------
2118 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2119 * support for skins at the interface level
2120 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2121 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2122 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2123 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2124 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2127 * fixed HTTP redirects
2128 * support for opening an entire directory
2129 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2130 * new video4linux access plug-in
2131 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2134 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2135 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2136 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2139 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2140 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2141 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2142 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2143 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2144 * new codec for raw I420 video
2145 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2148 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2149 (although it still misses some important features)
2150 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2153 * new HTTP output support
2154 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2155 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2158 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2161 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2164 * reorderable playlist
2165 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2166 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2167 * support for mono audio output devices
2168 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2169 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2170 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2171 * the messages window remembers more lines
2172 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2173 * http and ogg stream output options
2174 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2177 * new skinnable interface
2178 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2180 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2181 * support for FLAC audio format
2182 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2184 * network tab in the interface
2185 * "apply" handling in preferences
2188 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2189 ---------------------------------
2192 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2193 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2194 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2195 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2197 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2198 * DTS S/PDIF support
2201 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2202 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2203 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2204 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2207 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2208 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2211 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2214 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2217 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2219 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2220 * rc interface is now fully useable
2221 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2224 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2225 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2226 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2227 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2228 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2230 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2231 * support for mouse gestures
2232 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2235 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2236 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2239 * improved ID3 tag detection
2240 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2241 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2242 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2244 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2247 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2248 ---------------------------------
2251 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2252 English was set as the preferred language
2255 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2256 --------------------------------
2259 * new mouse gesture interface
2260 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2264 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2265 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2266 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2269 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2270 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2274 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2277 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2278 without the user consent
2281 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2283 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2284 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2285 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2288 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2289 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2290 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2291 * playlist enhancements
2292 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2293 * new step forward/step backward commands
2294 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2295 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2296 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2299 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2300 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2301 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2304 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2305 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2308 * native video output is working again
2309 * only commandline interface support
2310 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2313 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2314 --------------------------------
2317 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2318 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2319 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2320 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2321 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2322 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2323 and A/52 streams are supported)
2324 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2329 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2330 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2331 * VCD entry points support
2332 * VCD image file support
2335 * support for *.asf format
2336 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2337 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2338 * support for ogg encapsulation
2339 * support for raw DV format
2340 * support for *.wav format
2341 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2344 Stream discovery & playlists:
2345 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2346 * support for .m3u file format
2347 * support for .asx file format
2348 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2351 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2352 (only available with the .avi demux)
2353 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2354 * support for raw PCM data
2355 * support for Cinepak video codec
2356 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2357 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2358 * support for Xvid codec
2359 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2360 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2361 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2363 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2365 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2368 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2371 * new WxWindows interface
2372 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2373 device and the channels configuration
2374 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2375 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2376 format that VLC can play
2377 * new swedish translation
2378 * enhancements of the playlist window
2379 * new messages window to see debug info
2380 * fixed a few crashes
2383 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2384 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2385 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2386 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working