1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
6 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
7 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
8 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
9 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
10 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
11 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
12 --http-crl (optional CRL).
13 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
14 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
16 Important changes for packagers:
17 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
18 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
19 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
20 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
21 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
22 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
23 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
24 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
25 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
26 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
27 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
29 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
30 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
33 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
34 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
35 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
36 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
37 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
38 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
41 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
42 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
43 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
44 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
45 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
46 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
47 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
48 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
49 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
50 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
51 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
52 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
53 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
54 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
55 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
58 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
59 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
60 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
61 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
62 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
63 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
64 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
65 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
66 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
67 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
68 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
69 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
70 * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
73 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
74 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
75 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
76 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
77 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
78 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
79 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
80 * Major improvements in mkv chapters/segments handling
83 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
84 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
85 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
86 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
87 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
88 and important cleanups and optimisations
89 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
90 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Output
91 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
92 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
93 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
94 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
95 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
96 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
97 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
98 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
99 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
100 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
101 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
104 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
105 * New video output for iOS platform
106 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
107 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
108 * Various vmem improvements
109 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
111 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
112 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
113 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, which requires a Quartz Extreme capable Mac
116 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
117 * New audio output in memory (amem)
118 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
119 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
120 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
123 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
124 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
125 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
126 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
127 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
128 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
129 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
130 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
131 * New anti-flickering filter
132 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
133 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
134 blackbox and customizable shadow
137 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
140 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
141 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
142 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
143 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
144 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
145 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
146 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
147 * Major rework of VoD support
148 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
149 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
150 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
151 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
152 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
153 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
154 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
155 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
156 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
159 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
160 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
163 * New capabilities for libVLC:
164 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
165 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
166 list of available audio and video filters
167 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
168 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
171 * asademux: use libass only
172 * subsass: use libass
173 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
174 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
176 * upnp: use upnp_intel
177 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
178 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
179 * removal of the noise filter
180 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
181 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
182 removed in Growl's next release, too.
185 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
186 ----------------------------------
189 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
190 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
193 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
194 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
195 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
196 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
197 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
199 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
200 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
201 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
203 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
204 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
207 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
210 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
213 * Fix quitting on Linux
214 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
218 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
221 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
224 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
225 ---------------------------------
227 Windows and Mac OS X:
228 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
231 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
232 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
235 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
238 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
241 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
243 Miscellaneous fixes in:
244 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
246 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
247 * RTP output and XML export
248 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
252 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
253 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
254 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
255 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
258 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
259 --------------------------------
261 Windows and Mac OS X:
262 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
265 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
268 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
269 * Improve Apple Remote handling
270 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
271 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
272 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
273 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
276 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
277 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
281 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
282 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
283 * New Luganda Translation
286 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
287 --------------------------------
290 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
293 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
294 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
295 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
296 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
299 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
301 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
302 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
303 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
304 * mp4 demuxer improvements
305 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
306 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
307 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
308 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
310 Miscellaneous fixes in:
311 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
312 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
313 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
314 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
315 * Configure and build system improvements
316 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
319 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
320 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
321 * New icelandic translation
324 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
325 --------------------------------
328 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
332 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
333 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
334 and stability reasons
337 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
341 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
344 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
345 ----------------------------------
348 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
351 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
352 ---------------------------------
355 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
356 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
357 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
358 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
361 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
364 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
365 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
366 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
367 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
370 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
371 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
372 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
374 Subtitles and renderer:
375 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
376 * Mark more freetype options as safe
377 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
378 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
379 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
382 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
383 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
384 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
385 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
388 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
389 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
392 * KDE device solid actions
394 * Transcode integer overflow
395 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
396 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
399 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
400 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
401 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
404 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
405 ----------------------------------
408 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
412 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
415 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
418 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
419 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
420 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
421 * Taglib thread-safety fix
424 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
428 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
431 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
434 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
435 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
437 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
441 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
442 * Miscellaneous fixes
445 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
446 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
448 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
449 * New Asturian translation
452 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
453 ----------------------------------
456 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
458 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
461 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
464 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
465 * Various fixes for Windows
468 * New Armenian translation
469 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
470 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
473 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
474 --------------------------------
477 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
479 * Fix folders opening from the interface
482 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
483 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
486 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
487 --------------------------------
490 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
491 * fix for podcasts parsing
492 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
495 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
496 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
499 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
500 * fix m3u playlists exports
503 * fix video autoresize behaviour
506 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
509 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
512 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
515 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
518 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
519 --------------------------------
522 * Avformat fps displaying fix
523 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
526 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
527 of mono streams, especially on Windows
530 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
531 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
532 * fix console output encoding
534 Interface and extensions:
535 * Youtube and other scripts updates
536 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
539 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
540 --------------------------------
543 * New capabilities for libVLC:
544 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
545 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
546 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
547 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
548 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
549 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
550 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
551 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
552 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
553 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
554 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
555 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
556 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
557 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
558 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
562 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
563 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
564 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
565 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
566 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
569 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
572 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
573 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
574 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
578 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
581 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
582 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
583 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
586 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
587 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
588 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
589 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
592 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
593 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
596 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
597 --------------------------------
599 Important changes for users:
600 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
601 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
603 Important changes for packagers:
604 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
605 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
606 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
607 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
608 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
610 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
612 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
613 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
614 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
615 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
616 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
619 * Support for the sftp protocol
620 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
621 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
622 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
623 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
624 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
627 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
628 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
629 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
631 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
632 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
633 * Invmem module improvements
634 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
635 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
636 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
637 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
638 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
639 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
640 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
641 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
642 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
643 * Support for VP8 codec
644 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
647 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
648 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
649 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
650 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
651 * Various EGP improvements
652 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
653 * Metadata and cover art improvements
656 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
657 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
658 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
659 * Podcast images are now displayed
662 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
663 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
664 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
665 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
666 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
667 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
668 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
669 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
670 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
671 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
672 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
675 * New content extensions lua framework
678 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
679 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
680 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
681 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
682 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
683 * NEON assembly audio converter module
684 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
687 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
688 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
689 * Service discovery based on libudev
690 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
693 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
694 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
695 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
696 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
697 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
698 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
699 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
702 * New smem module, streaming to memory
703 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
704 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
707 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
709 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
710 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
713 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
716 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
717 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
718 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
719 by Andy Matuschak et al.
720 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
721 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
722 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
725 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
726 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
729 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
730 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
731 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
735 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
736 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
737 * Improved Solaris port
740 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
741 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
744 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
745 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
746 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
747 * transrate: broken since too long
748 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
749 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
750 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
751 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
752 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
753 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
754 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
755 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
756 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
757 * cddax: use cdda instead.
758 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
759 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
760 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
761 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
764 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
765 --------------------------------
768 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
770 Decoders/Packetizers:
771 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
774 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
775 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
776 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
777 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
778 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
781 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
782 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
785 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
786 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
789 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
790 and Walloon translations updated
791 * Sinhala translation started
794 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
795 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
798 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
799 --------------------------------
802 * SubRip extra styles improvements
803 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
806 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
809 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
810 increase performance and fix x264 issues
813 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
814 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
815 Russian, Slovak translation updates
816 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
819 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
820 --------------------------------
823 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
824 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
827 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
828 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
831 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
832 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
835 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
838 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
839 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
842 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
843 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
846 * New Walloon translation
847 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
850 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
851 --------------------------------
854 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
855 regressions in most popular drivers
856 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
859 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
860 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
861 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
864 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
865 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
868 * Update for appletrailers lua script
869 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
870 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
871 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
872 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
875 * New udev module for linux
878 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
881 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
884 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
885 --------------------------------
888 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
889 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
890 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
893 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
894 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
897 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
898 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
901 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
904 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
905 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
906 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
907 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
910 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
911 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
912 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
913 - no support for Goom and SDL
914 - limited text rendering support
915 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
918 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
919 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
920 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
921 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
922 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
923 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
924 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
925 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
926 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
930 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
933 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
936 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
937 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
938 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
939 Arabic and French translation updates
942 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
943 --------------------------------
946 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
947 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
948 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
949 * Fix Dailymotion access script
950 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
951 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
954 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
955 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
958 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
959 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
960 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
963 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
966 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
967 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
970 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
971 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
972 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
973 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
974 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
975 * Fix various crashes
978 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
980 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
983 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
984 ---------------------------------
988 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
989 See 'Access:' for more info.
990 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
993 * Instantaneous pausing
994 * Frame-by-Frame playback
995 * Finer speed control
996 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
997 * Timeshift for most medias
998 * RTSP trickplay support
999 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1002 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1003 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1004 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1005 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1006 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1007 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1008 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1009 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1010 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1011 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1014 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1015 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1016 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1017 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1018 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1019 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1020 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1023 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1024 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1027 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1028 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1029 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1030 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1031 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1032 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1033 * DVB scanning on linux
1034 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1035 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1036 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1037 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1038 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1039 * MTP device access on Unix
1040 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1041 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1044 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1045 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1046 Windows and Mac OS X.
1049 * Export the playlist in HTML
1050 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1051 * Better metadata handling and reading
1053 Linux/Windows interface:
1054 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1055 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1056 * Recently played items list
1057 * Interface toolbar customizations
1058 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1059 - More menus actions
1060 - Finer speed slider
1061 - Improvements on many dialogs
1062 - New dialog for plugins listing
1063 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1064 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1065 * Better integration in GTK environments
1068 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1069 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1070 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1071 * Additional usability improvements
1074 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1075 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1076 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1077 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1078 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1081 * New Maemo port with:
1082 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1083 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1086 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1089 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1090 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1091 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1092 * Support for latest iSight models
1095 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1096 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1099 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1100 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1101 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1102 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1103 The old image video output has been removed.
1104 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1105 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1108 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1116 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1117 --------------------------------------
1123 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1124 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1125 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1126 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1127 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1128 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1129 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1131 Various fixes to the following modules:
1134 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1135 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1136 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1138 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1143 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1144 ---------------------------------
1147 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1148 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1151 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1152 ---------------------------------
1155 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1158 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1161 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1162 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1163 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1164 main controller window.
1165 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1168 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1173 * Updates of other localizations
1176 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1177 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1178 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1179 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1180 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1183 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1184 ---------------------------------
1187 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1189 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1192 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1193 --------------------------------
1198 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1199 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1202 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1203 --------------------------------
1205 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1206 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1209 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1212 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1213 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1216 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1217 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1220 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1221 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1222 * Various fixed in playlist
1225 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1228 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1231 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1232 ------------------------------------
1234 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1235 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1238 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1239 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1240 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1243 * Stability fix for the video output.
1246 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1247 --------------------------------
1250 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1251 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1252 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1253 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1254 * Fixed update system bugs
1255 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1258 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1259 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1260 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1261 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1262 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1263 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1264 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1265 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1266 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1267 modern Mac OS X versions
1270 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1271 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1273 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1274 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1277 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1278 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1279 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1280 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1281 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1282 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1285 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1286 --------------------------------
1288 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1289 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1290 * Multiple bugfixes.
1293 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1294 --------------------------------
1296 * Multiple bug fixes.
1299 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1300 ---------------------------------
1304 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1305 recent to work correctly
1306 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1307 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1308 edit the ".hosts" file.
1309 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1310 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1311 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1312 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1313 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1314 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1315 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1316 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1317 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1318 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1319 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1320 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1321 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1322 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1323 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1324 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1325 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1326 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1327 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1328 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1329 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1330 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1331 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1332 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1333 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1334 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1335 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1336 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1337 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1338 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1339 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1340 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1341 and postproc modules.
1342 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1343 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1344 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1345 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1347 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1348 filter. For example:
1349 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1350 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1352 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1353 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1359 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1361 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1362 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1365 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1366 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1368 * Shoutcast TV listings
1369 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1371 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1372 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1374 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1377 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1378 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1379 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1380 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1381 * JACK audio input support
1382 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1383 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1384 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1385 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1386 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1387 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1388 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1389 (available as a separate download).
1390 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1391 * RTMP input support
1392 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1393 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1394 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1396 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1397 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1400 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1401 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1402 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1403 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1405 * APEv1/2 tags support
1406 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1407 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1409 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1410 * TiVo Series 2 support
1411 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1416 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1417 * Flash Screen Video support
1418 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1419 * DosBox Capture support
1420 * Karl Morton's Video support
1421 * limited atrac3 support
1423 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1424 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1425 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1426 * H.264 PAFF support
1427 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1428 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1429 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1430 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1431 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1434 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1435 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1436 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1437 * AQTitle subtitles support
1438 * MKV USF subtitles support
1439 * HTML-based subtitles support
1440 * MPSub subtitles support
1441 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1442 * MPL2 subtitles support
1443 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1444 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1445 * Realtext subtitle support
1446 * DKS subtitle support
1447 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1448 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1451 * Flash Screen Video support
1452 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1454 Video outputs and filters:
1455 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1456 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1457 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1458 * New puzzle video output filter
1459 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1460 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1462 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1463 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1464 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1465 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1466 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1467 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1468 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1469 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1470 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1471 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1472 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1473 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1474 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1475 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1477 Audio outputs and filters:
1478 * Replay gain support
1479 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1480 new scaletempo audio filter)
1481 * New spatializer audio filter
1482 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1485 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1486 * New RTP payload formats:
1487 * Speex voice audio codec
1488 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1489 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1490 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1491 * DCCP transport for RTP
1492 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1497 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1498 end-user suitable way.
1499 * Improved user interaction
1500 * Improved mouse gestures
1501 * Vastly improved Update checker
1502 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1504 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1505 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1507 * Improved video output features
1508 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1509 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1510 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1511 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1512 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1514 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1515 if libncursesw is available.
1516 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1517 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1518 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1520 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1521 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1522 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1523 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1524 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1525 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1526 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1527 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1530 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1531 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1532 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1535 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1536 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1537 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1538 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1539 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1540 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1543 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1544 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1554 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1555 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1556 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1559 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1560 ----------------------------------
1563 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1566 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1567 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1568 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1569 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1570 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1571 * Updated Polish translation
1574 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1575 ----------------------------------
1578 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1579 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1580 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1583 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1584 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1585 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1586 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1587 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1588 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1589 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1590 to an unexpected application termination
1591 * New Serbian translation
1592 * Updated Romanian translation
1595 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1596 ----------------------------------
1599 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1600 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1601 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1602 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1603 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1604 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1605 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1606 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1609 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1610 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1611 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1612 * Fixed AAC resampling
1613 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1614 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1617 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1618 ----------------------------------
1621 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1622 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1623 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1624 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1625 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1628 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1629 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1630 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1631 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1632 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1635 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1636 ----------------------------------
1639 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1640 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1643 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1644 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1645 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1646 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1648 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1652 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1655 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1658 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1661 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1664 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1665 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1666 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1667 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1668 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1670 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1671 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1672 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1673 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1676 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1679 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1680 ----------------------------------
1683 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1684 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1685 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1687 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1688 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1690 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1691 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1694 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1696 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1697 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1698 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1699 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1700 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1701 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1702 two different movies
1703 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1704 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1705 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1708 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1711 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1712 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1713 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1714 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1717 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1718 ----------------------------------
1720 Various bugfixes, notably:
1721 * Windows Vista compatibility
1722 * Cropping in Direct3D
1723 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1724 * RSS filter string overflow
1726 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1728 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1729 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1732 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1733 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1736 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1739 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1742 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1745 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1746 ----------------------------------
1748 Various bugfixes, notably:
1749 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1750 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1751 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1752 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1753 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1754 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1757 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1758 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1761 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1763 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1764 * Diverse usability improvements
1765 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1766 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1767 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1770 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1771 ---------------------------------
1773 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1774 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1777 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1780 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1781 --------------------------------
1784 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1787 * Support for RTSP authentication
1788 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1789 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1790 * ATSC support for DVB input
1791 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1792 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1793 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1796 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1797 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1798 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1799 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1800 * Matroska WavPack support
1801 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1802 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1803 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1806 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1807 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1808 * Improved libcaca support
1812 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1813 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1815 * Systray support in skins
1817 * Support for Apple Remote control
1818 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1819 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1820 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1821 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1823 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1826 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1827 Windows 9x/ME users:
1828 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1829 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1830 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1831 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1832 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1834 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1835 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1844 * Updates to the libvlc API
1845 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1848 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1849 --------------------------------
1852 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1853 * Support for downloading updates
1857 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1858 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1859 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1860 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1862 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1863 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1864 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1867 * Cook (Real audio) support
1869 Playlist / Services discovery:
1870 * XSPF playlist support
1872 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1875 * New JACK audio output
1878 * New video filters:
1879 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1880 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1881 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1882 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1883 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1884 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1887 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1890 * System to inform the user and request information
1891 - HTTP authentication
1895 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1896 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1897 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1900 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1901 - Improved playlist handling
1902 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1904 - Embedded Video output
1905 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1906 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1907 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1908 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1909 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1911 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1912 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1915 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1918 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1919 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1920 * Growl "Now playing" support
1923 * Ability to log to syslog
1924 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1927 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1929 * A bit more automatic testing
1932 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1933 ---------------------------------
1936 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1937 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1940 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1941 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1944 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1947 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1948 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1954 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1957 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1958 --------------------------------
1961 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1965 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1966 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1967 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1970 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1971 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1972 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1973 * GnomeVFS input module
1974 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1975 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1978 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1979 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1980 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1983 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1984 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1990 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1991 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1994 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1995 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1996 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1999 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2001 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2002 - New extended controls panel
2003 - New bookmarks window
2004 - Fixed playlist sorting
2005 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2007 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2008 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2009 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2010 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2014 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2015 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2017 - Include macro to include other files
2021 * Should now work outside IE as well
2024 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2027 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2028 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2031 The following languages were added:
2035 * Simplified Chinese
2036 The following languages were re-added:
2040 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2041 --------------------------------
2044 * Rewrite of the playlist
2046 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2047 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2048 * Preferences improvements:
2049 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2050 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2052 * Core image manipulation support
2053 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2054 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2055 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2056 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2057 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2058 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2059 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2060 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2061 * Access filter architecture
2062 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2063 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2067 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2068 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2069 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2070 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2071 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2072 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2073 * Massive Matroska improvements
2074 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2076 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2077 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2078 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2079 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2080 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2082 Decoders / Encoders:
2083 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2084 * PNG decoder/encoder
2085 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2086 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2089 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2092 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2093 * Brand new SAP module
2094 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2095 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2096 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2097 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2098 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2099 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2103 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2106 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2107 * Image file video output (png)
2108 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2109 * Improvements to wall video filter
2110 * Support for font color and opacity
2116 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2117 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2118 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2122 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2123 - Improved preferences
2124 - Improvements to the wizard
2125 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2127 - Redesigned playlist
2128 - Improved preferences
2130 - Support for multiple actions
2133 - Support for the new playlist system
2135 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2138 * Screensaver disabling fix
2139 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2140 * Support for no-decoration windows
2143 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2144 * The OpenGL video output is back
2145 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2146 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2147 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2148 is not yet available in the new module
2149 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2152 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2161 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2164 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2167 The following languages were added:
2173 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2174 --------------------------------
2177 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2178 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2181 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2182 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2183 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2186 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2189 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2192 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2195 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2196 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2197 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2201 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2203 * Support of playlist group announcement
2206 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2207 --------------------------------
2210 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2211 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2212 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2213 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2214 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2215 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2218 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2219 (Stream your desktop)
2220 * Improved DVD support:
2221 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2222 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2223 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2224 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2225 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2226 (selection of titles/chapters).
2229 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2230 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2231 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2232 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2233 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2234 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2235 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2236 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2237 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2238 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2241 * G.726 audio support
2242 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2243 * MPEG-4 text support
2244 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2245 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2246 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2250 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2251 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2252 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2253 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2254 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2255 * DVB subtitles encoder
2256 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2257 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2259 * Text track muxing for mp4
2260 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2261 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2262 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2263 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2264 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2265 * Improved ASF muxer
2267 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2268 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2269 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2272 * New audio equalizer filter
2273 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2274 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2275 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2276 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2279 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2280 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2281 with support for effects.
2282 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2283 - New filters can be streamed.
2284 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2285 - Centralized scaling and blending
2287 - "time", to display current time
2288 - "marq", to display a marquee
2291 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2292 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2293 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2294 * A few skins2 improvements
2295 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2296 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2297 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2298 * Improved CORBA control module
2301 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2302 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2303 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2306 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2307 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2308 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2311 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2312 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2313 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2314 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2315 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2318 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2321 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2322 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2325 * Server/client network synchronization module
2326 * VBrick streams fully supported
2327 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2331 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2332 --------------------------------
2335 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2336 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2337 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2338 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2341 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2342 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2343 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2344 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2345 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2346 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2347 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2350 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2351 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2352 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2353 * Improved directory access module.
2354 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2355 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2356 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2357 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2358 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2361 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2362 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2363 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2366 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2367 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2368 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2371 * Improved session announcement system.
2372 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2373 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2374 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2375 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2376 * Improved transrater.
2377 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2378 * New configuration system.
2379 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2382 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2383 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2384 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2385 * Supports scheduling.
2386 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2387 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2390 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2391 - Ability to embed video output.
2392 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2393 - Lots of improvements.
2394 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2395 - New design and set of icons.
2396 - Ability to embed video output.
2397 - Support for hotkeys.
2398 - Support for bookmarks.
2400 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2401 - Better hotkeys handling.
2404 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2405 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2406 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2407 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2410 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2411 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2412 * Improved Windows installer.
2418 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2419 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2422 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2423 ---------------------------------
2426 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2427 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2430 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2431 --------------------------------
2434 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2435 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2438 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2439 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2440 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2441 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2444 * Internal improvments
2445 * Improved import/export
2448 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2450 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2451 small and strange formats.
2453 * New MOD audio demux.
2454 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2455 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2456 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2457 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2460 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2461 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2462 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2468 * New opengl video output plugin.
2471 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2472 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2475 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2476 --------------------------------
2479 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2480 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2481 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2482 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2483 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2484 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2485 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2486 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2489 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2494 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2495 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2496 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2497 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2498 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2499 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2500 * Better Icecast support.
2501 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2502 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2505 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2506 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2507 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2508 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2509 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2510 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2511 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2514 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2515 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2516 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2517 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2518 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2519 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2520 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2521 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2522 * Preliminary RTP support.
2523 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2528 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2529 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2531 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2532 - Improvements and help in preferences
2533 - New streaming wizard
2534 - Revised Disc Open menu
2536 - Improvements of the standard pages
2537 - Support for new commands
2538 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2541 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2542 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2545 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2546 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2547 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2548 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2549 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2550 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2551 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2552 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2553 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2556 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2558 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2559 * Support for Panther.
2560 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2561 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2564 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2565 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2566 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2567 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2568 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2569 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2570 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2571 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2574 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2575 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2576 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2579 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2582 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2583 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2584 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2585 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2588 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2589 --------------------------------
2592 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2595 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2596 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2599 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2600 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2603 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2606 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2607 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2610 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2613 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2616 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2617 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2621 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2622 --------------------------------
2625 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2626 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2630 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2631 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2632 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2634 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2635 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2638 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2641 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2644 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2645 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2649 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2650 --------------------------------
2653 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2654 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2658 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2659 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2660 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2661 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2662 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2665 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2666 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2667 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2670 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2671 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2672 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2675 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2676 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2677 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2678 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2679 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2682 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2683 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2684 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2687 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2690 * Improved build system.
2691 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2692 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2693 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2694 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2697 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2698 --------------------------------
2701 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2704 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2705 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2706 * Video 4 Linux support
2707 * CD Digital Audio support
2708 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2711 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2712 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2713 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2714 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2717 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2718 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2719 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2720 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2721 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2722 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2723 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2726 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2727 * New HTTP remote control interface
2730 * 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.
2731 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2732 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2733 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2736 * New reset option for the preferences
2737 * You can set your language in the prefences
2738 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2739 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2740 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2741 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2744 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2745 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2746 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2749 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2750 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2751 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2752 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2753 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2754 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2755 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2756 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2757 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2758 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2761 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2762 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2763 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2764 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2765 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2766 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2767 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2770 * Interface localization
2771 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2772 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2773 * New full-featured Preferences window
2776 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2777 --------------------------------
2780 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2781 * support for skins at the interface level
2782 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2783 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2784 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2785 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2786 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2789 * fixed HTTP redirects
2790 * support for opening an entire directory
2791 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2792 * new video4linux access plug-in
2793 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2796 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2797 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2798 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2801 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2802 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2803 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2804 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2805 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2806 * new codec for raw I420 video
2807 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2810 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2811 (although it still misses some important features)
2812 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2815 * new HTTP output support
2816 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2817 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2820 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2823 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2826 * reorderable playlist
2827 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2828 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2829 * support for mono audio output devices
2830 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2831 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2832 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2833 * the messages window remembers more lines
2834 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2835 * http and ogg stream output options
2836 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2839 * new skinnable interface
2840 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2842 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2843 * support for FLAC audio format
2844 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2846 * network tab in the interface
2847 * "apply" handling in preferences
2850 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2851 ---------------------------------
2854 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2855 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2856 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2857 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2859 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2860 * DTS S/PDIF support
2863 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2864 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2865 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2866 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2869 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2870 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2873 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2876 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2879 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2881 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2882 * rc interface is now fully useable
2883 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2886 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2887 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2888 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2889 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2890 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2892 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2893 * support for mouse gestures
2894 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2897 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2898 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2901 * improved ID3 tag detection
2902 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2903 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2904 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2906 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2909 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2910 ---------------------------------
2913 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2914 English was set as the preferred language
2917 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2918 --------------------------------
2921 * new mouse gesture interface
2922 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2926 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2927 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2928 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2931 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2932 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2936 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2939 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2940 without the user consent
2943 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2945 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2946 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2947 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2950 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2951 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2952 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2953 * playlist enhancements
2954 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2955 * new step forward/step backward commands
2956 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2957 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2958 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2961 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2962 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2963 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2966 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2967 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2970 * native video output is working again
2971 * only commandline interface support
2972 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2975 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2976 --------------------------------
2979 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2980 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2981 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2982 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2983 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2984 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2985 and A/52 streams are supported)
2986 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2991 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2992 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2993 * VCD entry points support
2994 * VCD image file support
2997 * support for *.asf format
2998 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2999 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3000 * support for ogg encapsulation
3001 * support for raw DV format
3002 * support for *.wav format
3003 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3006 Stream discovery & playlists:
3007 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3008 * support for .m3u file format
3009 * support for .asx file format
3010 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3013 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3014 (only available with the .avi demux)
3015 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3016 * support for raw PCM data
3017 * support for Cinepak video codec
3018 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3019 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3020 * support for Xvid codec
3021 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3022 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3023 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3025 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3027 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3030 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3033 * new WxWindows interface
3034 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3035 device and the channels configuration
3036 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3037 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3038 format that VLC can play
3039 * new swedish translation
3040 * enhancements of the playlist window
3041 * new messages window to see debug info
3042 * fixed a few crashes
3045 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3046 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3047 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3048 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working