1 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
12 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
15 Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
16 ---------------------------------
20 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
21 See 'Access:' for more info.
22 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
25 * Instantaneous pausing
26 * Frame-by-Frame playback
28 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
29 * Timeshift for most medias
30 * RTSP trickplay support
31 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
34 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
35 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
36 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
37 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
38 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
39 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
40 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
41 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
42 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
43 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
46 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
47 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
48 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
49 * Metadata for mod files are supported
50 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
51 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
52 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
55 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
56 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
59 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
60 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
61 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
62 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
63 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
64 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
65 * DVB scanning on linux
66 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
67 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
68 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
69 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
70 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
71 * MTP device access on Unix
72 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
73 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
76 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
77 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
81 * Export the playlist in HTML
82 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
83 * Better metadata handling and reading
85 Linux/Windows interface:
86 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
87 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
88 * Recently played items list
89 * Interface toolbar customizations
90 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
93 - Improvements on many dialogs
94 - New dialog for plugins listing
95 - Fixed-size mode for videos
96 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
97 * Better integration in GTK environments
100 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
101 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
102 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
103 * Additional usability improvements
106 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
107 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
108 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
109 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
110 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
113 * New Maemo port with:
114 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
115 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
118 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
121 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
122 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
123 * Support for latest iSight models
126 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
127 * Surround support for PulseAudio
130 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
131 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
132 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
133 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
134 The old image video output has been removed.
135 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
136 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
139 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
142 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
143 ---------------------------------
146 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
147 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
150 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
151 ---------------------------------
154 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
157 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
160 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
161 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
162 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
163 main controller window.
164 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
167 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
172 * Updates of other localizations
175 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
176 * Lots of small bugfixes.
177 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
178 * Telnet fixes on Windows
179 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
181 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
182 ---------------------------------
185 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
187 Bunch of small bugfixes.
190 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
191 --------------------------------
196 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
197 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
200 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
201 --------------------------------
203 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
204 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
207 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
210 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
211 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
214 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
215 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
218 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
219 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
220 * Various fixed in playlist
223 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
226 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
229 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
230 ------------------------------------
232 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
233 * Fixes several memory leaks.
236 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
237 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
238 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
241 * Stability fix for the video output.
244 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
245 --------------------------------
248 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
249 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
250 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
251 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
252 * Fixed update system bugs
253 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
256 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
257 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
258 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
259 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
260 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
261 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
262 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
263 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
264 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
265 modern Mac OS X versions
268 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
269 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
271 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
272 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
275 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
276 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
277 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
278 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
279 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
280 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
283 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
284 --------------------------------
286 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
287 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
291 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
292 --------------------------------
294 * Multiple bug fixes.
297 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
298 ---------------------------------
302 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
303 recent to work correctly
304 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
305 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
306 edit the ".hosts" file.
307 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
308 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
309 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
310 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
311 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
312 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
313 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
314 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
315 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
316 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
317 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
318 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
319 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
320 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
321 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
322 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
323 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
324 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
325 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
326 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
327 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
328 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
329 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
330 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
331 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
332 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
333 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
334 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
335 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
336 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
337 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
338 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
339 and postproc modules.
340 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
341 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
342 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
343 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
345 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
347 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
348 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
350 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
351 * Glide video output module has been removed.
357 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
359 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
360 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
363 * Vastly improved playlist support:
364 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
366 * Shoutcast TV listings
367 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
369 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
370 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
372 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
375 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
376 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
377 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
378 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
379 * JACK audio input support
380 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
381 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
382 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
383 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
384 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
385 * Experimental EyeTV access module
386 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
387 (available as a separate download).
388 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
390 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
391 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
392 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
394 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
395 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
398 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
399 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
400 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
401 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
403 * APEv1/2 tags support
404 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
405 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
407 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
408 * TiVo Series 2 support
409 * CD+G karaoke Files support
414 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
415 * Flash Screen Video support
416 * CamStudio Screen Video support
417 * DosBox Capture support
418 * Karl Morton's Video support
419 * limited atrac3 support
421 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
422 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
423 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
425 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
426 * NellyMoser ASAO support
427 * APE (Monkey audio) support
428 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
429 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
432 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
433 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
434 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
435 * AQTitle subtitles support
436 * MKV USF subtitles support
437 * HTML-based subtitles support
438 * MPSub subtitles support
439 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
440 * MPL2 subtitles support
441 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
442 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
443 * Realtext subtitle support
444 * DKS subtitle support
445 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
446 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
449 * Flash Screen Video support
450 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
452 Video outputs and filters:
453 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
454 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
455 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
456 * New puzzle video output filter
457 * Re-written motion detection video filter
458 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
460 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
461 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
462 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
463 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
464 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
465 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
466 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
467 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
468 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
469 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
470 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
471 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
472 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
473 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
475 Audio outputs and filters:
476 * Replay gain support
477 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
478 new scaletempo audio filter)
479 * New spatializer audio filter
480 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
483 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
484 * New RTP payload formats:
485 * Speex voice audio codec
486 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
487 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
488 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
489 * DCCP transport for RTP
490 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
495 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
496 end-user suitable way.
497 * Improved user interaction
498 * Improved mouse gestures
499 * Vastly improved Update checker
500 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
502 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
503 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
505 * Improved video output features
506 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
507 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
508 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
509 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
510 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
512 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
513 if libncursesw is available.
514 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
515 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
516 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
518 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
519 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
520 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
521 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
522 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
523 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
524 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
525 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
528 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
529 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
530 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
533 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
534 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
535 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
536 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
537 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
538 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
541 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
542 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
552 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
553 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
554 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
557 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
558 ----------------------------------
561 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
564 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
565 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
566 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
567 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
568 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
569 * Updated Polish translation
572 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
573 ----------------------------------
576 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
577 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
578 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
581 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
582 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
583 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
584 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
585 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
586 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
587 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
588 to an unexpected application termination
589 * New Serbian translation
590 * Updated Romanian translation
593 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
594 ----------------------------------
597 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
598 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
599 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
600 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
601 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
602 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
603 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
604 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
607 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
608 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
609 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
610 * Fixed AAC resampling
611 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
612 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
615 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
616 ----------------------------------
619 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
620 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
621 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
622 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
623 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
626 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
627 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
628 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
629 * Close MMS access on network timeout
630 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
633 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
634 ----------------------------------
637 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
638 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
641 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
642 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
643 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
644 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
646 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
650 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
653 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
656 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
659 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
662 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
663 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
664 encoding on multi-cpu systems
665 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
666 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
668 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
669 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
670 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
671 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
674 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
677 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
678 ----------------------------------
681 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
682 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
683 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
685 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
686 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
688 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
689 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
692 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
694 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
695 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
696 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
697 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
698 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
699 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
701 * Support for current Ogg file formats
702 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
703 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
706 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
709 * The automatic updating facility was removed
710 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
711 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
712 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
715 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
716 ----------------------------------
718 Various bugfixes, notably:
719 * Windows Vista compatibility
720 * Cropping in Direct3D
721 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
722 * RSS filter string overflow
724 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
726 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
727 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
730 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
731 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
734 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
737 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
740 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
743 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
744 ----------------------------------
746 Various bugfixes, notably:
747 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
748 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
749 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
750 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
751 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
752 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
755 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
756 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
759 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
761 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
762 * Diverse usability improvements
763 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
764 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
765 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
768 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
769 ---------------------------------
772 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
775 * Fullscreen controller improvements
778 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
779 --------------------------------
782 * Shoutcast TV listings support
785 * Support for RTSP authentication
786 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
787 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
788 * ATSC support for DVB input
789 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
790 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
791 * Improved support for Flash Video files
794 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
795 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
796 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
797 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
798 * Matroska WavPack support
799 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
800 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
801 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
804 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
805 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
806 * Improved libcaca support
810 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
811 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
813 * Systray support in skins
815 * Support for Apple Remote control
816 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
817 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
818 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
819 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
821 * Notifications using notification-daemon
824 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
826 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
827 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
828 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
829 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
830 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
832 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
833 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
842 * Updates to the libvlc API
843 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
846 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
847 --------------------------------
850 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
851 * Support for downloading updates
855 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
856 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
857 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
858 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
860 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
861 * Improved subtitles encoding support
862 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
865 * Cook (Real audio) support
867 Playlist / Services discovery:
868 * XSPF playlist support
870 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
873 * New JACK audio output
877 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
878 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
879 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
880 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
881 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
882 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
885 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
888 * System to inform the user and request information
889 - HTTP authentication
893 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
894 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
895 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
898 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
899 - Improved playlist handling
900 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
902 - Embedded Video output
903 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
904 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
905 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
906 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
907 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
909 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
910 - A bunch of new RPN functions
913 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
916 * Mac-Intel compatibility
917 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
918 * Growl "Now playing" support
921 * Ability to log to syslog
922 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
925 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
927 * A bit more automatic testing
930 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
931 ---------------------------------
934 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
935 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
938 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
939 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
942 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
945 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
946 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
952 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
955 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
956 --------------------------------
959 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
963 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
964 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
965 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
968 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
969 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
970 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
971 * GnomeVFS input module
972 * Support for RTP packet reordering
973 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
976 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
977 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
978 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
981 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
982 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
988 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
989 Mixer and Dolby Surround
992 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
993 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
994 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
997 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
999 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1000 - New extended controls panel
1001 - New bookmarks window
1002 - Fixed playlist sorting
1003 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1005 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1006 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1007 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1008 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1012 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1013 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1015 - Include macro to include other files
1019 * Should now work outside IE as well
1022 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1025 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1026 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1029 The following languages were added:
1033 * Simplified Chinese
1034 The following languages were re-added:
1038 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1039 --------------------------------
1042 * Rewrite of the playlist
1044 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1045 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1046 * Preferences improvements:
1047 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1048 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1050 * Core image manipulation support
1051 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1052 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1053 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1054 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1055 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1056 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1057 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1058 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1059 * Access filter architecture
1060 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1061 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1065 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1066 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1067 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1068 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1069 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1070 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1071 * Massive Matroska improvements
1072 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1074 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1075 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1076 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1077 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1078 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1080 Decoders / Encoders:
1081 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1082 * PNG decoder/encoder
1083 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1084 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1087 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1090 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1091 * Brand new SAP module
1092 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1093 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1094 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1095 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1096 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1097 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1101 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1104 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1105 * Image file video output (png)
1106 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1107 * Improvements to wall video filter
1108 * Support for font color and opacity
1114 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1115 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1116 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1120 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1121 - Improved preferences
1122 - Improvements to the wizard
1123 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1125 - Redesigned playlist
1126 - Improved preferences
1128 - Support for multiple actions
1131 - Support for the new playlist system
1133 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1136 * Screensaver disabling fix
1137 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1138 * Support for no-decoration windows
1141 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1142 * The OpenGL video output is back
1143 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1144 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1145 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1146 is not yet available in the new module
1147 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1150 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1159 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1162 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1165 The following languages were added:
1171 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1172 --------------------------------
1175 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1176 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1179 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1180 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1181 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1184 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1187 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1190 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1193 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1194 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1195 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1199 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1201 * Support of playlist group announcement
1204 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1205 --------------------------------
1208 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1209 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1210 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1211 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1212 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1213 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1216 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1217 (Stream your desktop)
1218 * Improved DVD support:
1219 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1220 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1221 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1222 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1223 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1224 (selection of titles/chapters).
1227 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1228 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1229 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1230 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1231 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1232 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1233 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1234 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1235 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1236 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1239 * G.726 audio support
1240 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1241 * MPEG-4 text support
1242 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1243 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1244 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1248 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1249 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1250 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1251 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1252 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1253 * DVB subtitles encoder
1254 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1255 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1257 * Text track muxing for mp4
1258 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1259 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1260 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1261 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1262 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1263 * Improved ASF muxer
1265 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1266 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1267 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1270 * New audio equalizer filter
1271 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1272 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1273 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1274 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1277 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1278 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1279 with support for effects.
1280 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1281 - New filters can be streamed.
1282 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1283 - Centralized scaling and blending
1285 - "time", to display current time
1286 - "marq", to display a marquee
1289 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1290 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1291 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1292 * A few skins2 improvements
1293 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1294 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1295 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1296 * Improved CORBA control module
1299 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1300 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1301 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1304 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1305 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1306 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1309 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1310 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1311 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1312 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1313 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1316 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1319 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1320 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1323 * Server/client network synchronization module
1324 * VBrick streams fully supported
1325 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1329 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1330 --------------------------------
1333 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1334 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1335 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1336 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1339 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1340 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1341 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1342 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1343 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1344 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1345 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1348 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1349 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1350 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1351 * Improved directory access module.
1352 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1353 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1354 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1355 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1356 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1359 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1360 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1361 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1364 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1365 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1366 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1369 * Improved session announcement system.
1370 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1371 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1372 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1373 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1374 * Improved transrater.
1375 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1376 * New configuration system.
1377 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1380 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1381 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1382 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1383 * Supports scheduling.
1384 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1385 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1388 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1389 - Ability to embed video output.
1390 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1391 - Lots of improvements.
1392 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1393 - New design and set of icons.
1394 - Ability to embed video output.
1395 - Support for hotkeys.
1396 - Support for bookmarks.
1398 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1399 - Better hotkeys handling.
1402 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1403 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1404 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1405 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1408 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1409 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1410 * Improved Windows installer.
1416 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1417 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1420 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1421 ---------------------------------
1424 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1425 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1428 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1429 --------------------------------
1432 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1433 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1436 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1437 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1438 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1439 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1442 * Internal improvments
1443 * Improved import/export
1446 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1448 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1449 small and strange formats.
1451 * New MOD audio demux.
1452 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1453 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1454 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1455 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1458 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1459 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1460 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1466 * New opengl video output plugin.
1469 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1470 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1473 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1474 --------------------------------
1477 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1478 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1479 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1480 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1481 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1482 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1483 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1484 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1487 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1492 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1493 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1494 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1495 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1496 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1497 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1498 * Better Icecast support.
1499 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1500 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1503 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1504 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1505 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1506 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1507 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1508 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1509 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1512 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1513 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1514 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1515 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1516 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1517 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1518 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1519 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1520 * Preliminary RTP support.
1521 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1526 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1527 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1529 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1530 - Improvements and help in preferences
1531 - New streaming wizard
1532 - Revised Disc Open menu
1534 - Improvements of the standard pages
1535 - Support for new commands
1536 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1539 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1540 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1543 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1544 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1545 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1546 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1547 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1548 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1549 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1550 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1551 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1554 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1556 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1557 * Support for Panther.
1558 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1559 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1562 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1563 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1564 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1565 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1566 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1567 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1568 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1569 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1572 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1573 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1574 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1577 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1580 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1581 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1582 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1583 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1586 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1587 --------------------------------
1590 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1593 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1594 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1597 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1598 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1601 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1604 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1605 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1608 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1611 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1614 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1615 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1619 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1620 --------------------------------
1623 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1624 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1628 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1629 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1630 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1632 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1633 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1636 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1639 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1642 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1643 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1647 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1648 --------------------------------
1651 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1652 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1656 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1657 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1658 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1659 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1660 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1663 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1664 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1665 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1668 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1669 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1670 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1673 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1674 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1675 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1676 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1677 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1680 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1681 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1682 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1685 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1688 * Improved build system.
1689 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1690 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1691 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1692 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1695 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1696 --------------------------------
1699 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1702 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1703 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1704 * Video 4 Linux support
1705 * CD Digital Audio support
1706 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1709 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1710 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1711 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1712 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1715 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1716 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1717 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1718 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1719 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1720 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1721 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1724 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1725 * New HTTP remote control interface
1728 * 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.
1729 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1730 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1731 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1734 * New reset option for the preferences
1735 * You can set your language in the prefences
1736 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1737 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1738 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1739 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1742 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1743 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1744 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1747 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1748 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1749 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1750 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1751 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1752 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1753 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1754 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1755 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1756 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1759 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1760 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1761 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1762 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1763 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1764 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1765 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1768 * Interface localization
1769 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1770 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1771 * New full-featured Preferences window
1774 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1775 --------------------------------
1778 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1779 * support for skins at the interface level
1780 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1781 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1782 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1783 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1784 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1787 * fixed HTTP redirects
1788 * support for opening an entire directory
1789 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1790 * new video4linux access plug-in
1791 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1794 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1795 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1796 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1799 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1800 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1801 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1802 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1803 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1804 * new codec for raw I420 video
1805 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1808 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1809 (although it still misses some important features)
1810 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1813 * new HTTP output support
1814 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1815 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1818 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1821 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1824 * reorderable playlist
1825 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1826 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1827 * support for mono audio output devices
1828 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1829 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1830 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1831 * the messages window remembers more lines
1832 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1833 * http and ogg stream output options
1834 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1837 * new skinnable interface
1838 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1840 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1841 * support for FLAC audio format
1842 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1844 * network tab in the interface
1845 * "apply" handling in preferences
1848 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1849 ---------------------------------
1852 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1853 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1854 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1855 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1857 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1858 * DTS S/PDIF support
1861 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1862 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1863 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1864 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1867 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1868 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1871 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1874 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1877 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1879 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1880 * rc interface is now fully useable
1881 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1884 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1885 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1886 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1887 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1888 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1890 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1891 * support for mouse gestures
1892 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1895 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1896 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1899 * improved ID3 tag detection
1900 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1901 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1902 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1904 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1907 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1908 ---------------------------------
1911 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1912 English was set as the preferred language
1915 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1916 --------------------------------
1919 * new mouse gesture interface
1920 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1924 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1925 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1926 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1929 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1930 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1934 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1937 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1938 without the user consent
1941 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1943 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1944 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1945 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1948 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1949 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1950 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1951 * playlist enhancements
1952 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1953 * new step forward/step backward commands
1954 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1955 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1956 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1959 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1960 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1961 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1964 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1965 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1968 * native video output is working again
1969 * only commandline interface support
1970 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1973 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1974 --------------------------------
1977 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1978 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1979 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1980 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1981 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1982 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1983 and A/52 streams are supported)
1984 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1989 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1990 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1991 * VCD entry points support
1992 * VCD image file support
1995 * support for *.asf format
1996 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1997 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1998 * support for ogg encapsulation
1999 * support for raw DV format
2000 * support for *.wav format
2001 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2004 Stream discovery & playlists:
2005 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2006 * support for .m3u file format
2007 * support for .asx file format
2008 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2011 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2012 (only available with the .avi demux)
2013 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2014 * support for raw PCM data
2015 * support for Cinepak video codec
2016 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2017 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2018 * support for Xvid codec
2019 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2020 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2021 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2023 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2025 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2028 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2031 * new WxWindows interface
2032 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2033 device and the channels configuration
2034 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2035 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2036 format that VLC can play
2037 * new swedish translation
2038 * enhancements of the playlist window
2039 * new messages window to see debug info
2040 * fixed a few crashes
2043 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2044 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2045 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2046 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working