1 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2 ---------------------------------
6 * This release will not work with Windows 98/ME and Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther)
7 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
8 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
9 edit the ".hosts" file.
10 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
11 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
12 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
13 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
14 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
15 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
16 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
17 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
18 This interface has a fullscreen controller. This interface lacks the
19 "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
20 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
21 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
22 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
23 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
24 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
25 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
26 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
27 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
28 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
29 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
30 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
31 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
32 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
33 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
34 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
35 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
36 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
37 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
38 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
39 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
40 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
42 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
43 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
44 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
45 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
47 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
49 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
50 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
52 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
53 * Glide video output module has been removed.
54 * Due to lack of maintainer, the Skins interface might not work properly.
60 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-??)
61 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
62 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-??)
65 * Vastly improved playlist support:
66 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
68 * Shoutcast TV listings
69 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
71 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
72 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
73 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
74 share/lua/meta/README.txt
77 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
78 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
79 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
80 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
81 * JACK audio input support
82 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
83 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
84 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
85 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
86 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
87 * Experimental EyeTV access module
88 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
89 (available as a separate download).
90 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
92 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
93 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
94 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
96 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
97 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
100 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
101 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
102 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
103 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
105 * APEv1/2 tags support
106 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
107 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
109 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
110 * TiVo Series 2 support
111 * CD+G karaoke Files support
116 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
117 * Flash Screen Video support
118 * CamStudio Screen Video support
119 * DosBox Capture support
120 * Karl Morton's Video support
121 * limited atrac3 support
123 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
124 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
125 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
127 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
128 * NellyMoser ASAO support
129 * APE (Monkey audio) support
130 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
131 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
134 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
135 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
136 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
137 * AQTitle subtitles support
138 * MKV USF subtitles support
139 * HTML-based subtitles support
140 * MPSub subtitles support
141 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
142 * MPL2 subtitles support
143 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
144 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
145 * Realtext subtitle support
146 * DKS subtitle support
147 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
148 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
151 * Flash Screen Video support
152 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
154 Video outputs and filters:
155 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
156 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
157 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
158 * New puzzle video output filter
159 * Re-written motion detection video filter
160 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
162 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
163 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
164 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
165 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
166 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
167 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
168 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
169 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
170 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
171 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
172 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
173 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
174 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
175 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
177 Audio outputs and filters:
178 * Replay gain support
179 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
180 new scaletempo audio filter)
181 * New spatializer audio filter
182 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
185 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
186 * New RTP payload formats:
187 * Speex voice audio codec
188 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
189 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
190 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
191 * DCCP transport for RTP
192 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
197 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
198 end-user suitable way.
199 * Improved user interaction
200 * Improved mouse gestures
201 * Vastly improved Update checker
202 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
204 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
205 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
207 * Improved video output features
208 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
209 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
210 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
211 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
212 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
214 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
215 if libncursesw is available.
216 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
217 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
219 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
220 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
221 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
222 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
223 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
224 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
225 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
226 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
229 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
230 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
231 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
234 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
235 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
236 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
237 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
238 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
239 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
242 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
243 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
252 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
253 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
254 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
257 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
258 ----------------------------------
261 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
264 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
265 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
266 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
267 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
268 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
269 * Updated Polish translation
272 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
273 ----------------------------------
276 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
277 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
278 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
281 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
282 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
283 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
284 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
285 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
286 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
287 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
288 to an unexpected application termination
289 * New Serbian translation
290 * Updated Romanian translation
293 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
294 ----------------------------------
297 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
298 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
299 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
300 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
301 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
302 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
303 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
304 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
307 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
308 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
309 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
310 * Fixed AAC resampling
311 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
312 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
315 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
316 ----------------------------------
319 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
320 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
321 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
322 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
323 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
326 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
327 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
328 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
329 * Close MMS access on network timeout
330 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
333 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
334 ----------------------------------
337 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
338 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
341 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
342 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
343 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
344 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
346 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
350 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
353 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
356 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
359 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
362 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
363 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
364 encoding on multi-cpu systems
365 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
366 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
368 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
369 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
370 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
371 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
374 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
377 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
378 ----------------------------------
381 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
382 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
383 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
385 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
386 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
388 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
389 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
392 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
394 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
395 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
396 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
397 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
398 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
399 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
401 * Support for current Ogg file formats
402 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
403 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
406 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
409 * The automatic updating facility was removed
410 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
411 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
412 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
415 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
416 ----------------------------------
418 Various bugfixes, notably:
419 * Windows Vista compatibility
420 * Cropping in Direct3D
421 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
422 * RSS filter string overflow
424 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
426 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
427 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
430 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
431 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
434 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
437 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
440 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
443 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
444 ----------------------------------
446 Various bugfixes, notably:
447 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
448 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
449 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
450 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
451 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
452 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
455 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
456 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
459 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
461 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
462 * Diverse usability improvements
463 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
464 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
465 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
468 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
469 ---------------------------------
472 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
475 * Fullscreen controller improvements
478 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
479 --------------------------------
482 * Shoutcast TV listings support
485 * Support for RTSP authentication
486 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
487 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
488 * ATSC support for DVB input
489 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
490 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
491 * Improved support for Flash Video files
494 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
495 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
496 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
497 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
498 * Matroska WavPack support
499 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
500 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
501 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
504 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
505 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
506 * Improved libcaca support
510 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
511 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
513 * Systray support in skins
515 * Support for Apple Remote control
516 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
517 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
518 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
519 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
521 * Notifications using notification-daemon
524 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
526 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
527 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
528 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
529 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
530 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
532 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
533 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
542 * Updates to the libvlc API
543 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
546 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
547 --------------------------------
550 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
551 * Support for downloading updates
555 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
556 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
557 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
558 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
560 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
561 * Improved subtitles encoding support
562 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
565 * Cook (Real audio) support
567 Playlist / Services discovery:
568 * XSPF playlist support
570 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
573 * New JACK audio output
577 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
578 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
579 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
580 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
581 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
582 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
585 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
588 * System to inform the user and request information
589 - HTTP authentication
593 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
594 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
595 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
598 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
599 - Improved playlist handling
600 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
602 - Embedded Video output
603 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
604 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
605 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
606 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
607 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
609 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
610 - A bunch of new RPN functions
613 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
616 * Mac-Intel compatibility
617 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
618 * Growl "Now playing" support
621 * Ability to log to syslog
622 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
625 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
627 * A bit more automatic testing
630 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
631 ---------------------------------
634 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
635 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
638 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
639 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
642 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
645 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
646 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
652 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
655 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
656 --------------------------------
659 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
663 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
664 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
665 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
668 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
669 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
670 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
671 * GnomeVFS input module
672 * Support for RTP packet reordering
673 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
676 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
677 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
678 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
681 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
682 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
688 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
689 Mixer and Dolby Surround
692 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
693 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
694 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
697 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
699 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
700 - New extended controls panel
701 - New bookmarks window
702 - Fixed playlist sorting
703 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
705 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
706 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
707 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
708 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
712 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
713 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
715 - Include macro to include other files
719 * Should now work outside IE as well
722 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
725 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
726 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
729 The following languages were added:
734 The following languages were re-added:
738 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
739 --------------------------------
742 * Rewrite of the playlist
744 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
745 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
746 * Preferences improvements:
747 - New organization, designed to improve usability
748 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
750 * Core image manipulation support
751 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
752 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
753 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
754 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
755 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
756 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
757 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
758 now separated by ':' instead of ','
759 * Access filter architecture
760 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
761 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
765 * Support for SOCKS proxy
766 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
767 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
768 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
769 * Better support for Kasenna streams
770 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
771 * Massive Matroska improvements
772 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
774 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
775 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
776 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
777 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
778 * Support for FTP over IPv6
781 * Dirac decoder and encoder
782 * PNG decoder/encoder
783 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
784 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
787 * New Record and Timeshift filters
790 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
791 * Brand new SAP module
792 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
793 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
794 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
795 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
796 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
797 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
801 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
804 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
805 * Image file video output (png)
806 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
807 * Improvements to wall video filter
808 * Support for font color and opacity
814 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
815 - Seeking support in VoD streams
816 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
820 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
821 - Improved preferences
822 - Improvements to the wizard
823 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
825 - Redesigned playlist
826 - Improved preferences
828 - Support for multiple actions
831 - Support for the new playlist system
833 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
836 * Screensaver disabling fix
837 * DirectShow tuner configuration
838 * Support for no-decoration windows
841 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
842 * The OpenGL video output is back
843 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
844 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
845 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
846 is not yet available in the new module
847 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
850 * Support for single-buffered overlay
859 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
862 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
865 The following languages were added:
871 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
872 --------------------------------
875 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
876 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
879 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
880 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
881 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
884 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
887 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
890 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
893 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
894 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
895 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
899 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
901 * Support of playlist group announcement
904 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
905 --------------------------------
908 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
909 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
910 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
911 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
912 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
913 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
916 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
917 (Stream your desktop)
918 * Improved DVD support:
919 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
920 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
921 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
922 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
923 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
924 (selection of titles/chapters).
927 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
928 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
929 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
930 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
931 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
932 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
933 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
934 * Improved Ogg demuxer
935 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
936 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
939 * G.726 audio support
940 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
941 * MPEG-4 text support
942 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
943 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
944 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
948 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
949 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
950 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
951 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
952 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
953 * DVB subtitles encoder
954 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
955 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
957 * Text track muxing for mp4
958 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
959 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
960 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
961 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
962 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
965 * H.263 RTP streaming support
966 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
967 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
970 * New audio equalizer filter
971 * Very trivial volume normalizer
972 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
973 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
974 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
977 * Roku HD1000 Video output
978 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
979 with support for effects.
980 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
981 - New filters can be streamed.
982 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
983 - Centralized scaling and blending
985 - "time", to display current time
986 - "marq", to display a marquee
989 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
990 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
991 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
992 * A few skins2 improvements
993 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
994 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
995 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
996 * Improved CORBA control module
999 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1000 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1001 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1004 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1005 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1006 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1009 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1010 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1011 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1012 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1013 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1016 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1019 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1020 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1023 * Server/client network synchronization module
1024 * VBrick streams fully supported
1025 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1029 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1030 --------------------------------
1033 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1034 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1035 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1036 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1039 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1040 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1041 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1042 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1043 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1044 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1045 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1048 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1049 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1050 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1051 * Improved directory access module.
1052 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1053 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1054 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1055 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1056 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1059 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1060 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1061 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1064 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1065 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1066 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1069 * Improved session announcement system.
1070 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1071 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1072 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1073 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1074 * Improved transrater.
1075 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1076 * New configuration system.
1077 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1080 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1081 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1082 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1083 * Supports scheduling.
1084 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1085 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1088 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1089 - Ability to embed video output.
1090 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1091 - Lots of improvements.
1092 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1093 - New design and set of icons.
1094 - Ability to embed video output.
1095 - Support for hotkeys.
1096 - Support for bookmarks.
1098 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1099 - Better hotkeys handling.
1102 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1103 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1104 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1105 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1108 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1109 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1110 * Improved Windows installer.
1116 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1117 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1120 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1121 ---------------------------------
1124 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1125 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1128 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1129 --------------------------------
1132 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1133 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1136 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1137 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1138 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1139 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1142 * Internal improvments
1143 * Improved import/export
1146 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1148 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1149 small and strange formats.
1151 * New MOD audio demux.
1152 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1153 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1154 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1155 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1158 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1159 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1160 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1166 * New opengl video output plugin.
1169 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1170 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1173 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1174 --------------------------------
1177 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1178 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1179 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1180 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1181 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1182 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1183 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1184 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1187 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1192 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1193 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1194 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1195 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1196 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1197 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1198 * Better Icecast support.
1199 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1200 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1203 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1204 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1205 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1206 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1207 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1208 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1209 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1212 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1213 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1214 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1215 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1216 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1217 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1218 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1219 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1220 * Preliminary RTP support.
1221 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1226 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1227 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1229 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1230 - Improvements and help in preferences
1231 - New streaming wizard
1232 - Revised Disc Open menu
1234 - Improvements of the standard pages
1235 - Support for new commands
1236 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1239 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1240 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1243 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1244 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1245 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1246 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1247 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1248 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1249 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1250 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1251 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1254 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1256 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1257 * Support for Panther.
1258 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1259 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1262 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1263 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1264 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1265 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1266 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1267 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1268 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1269 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1272 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1273 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1274 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1277 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1280 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1281 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1282 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1283 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1286 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1287 --------------------------------
1290 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1293 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1294 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1297 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1298 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1301 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1304 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1305 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1308 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1311 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1314 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1315 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1319 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1320 --------------------------------
1323 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1324 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1328 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1329 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1330 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1332 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1333 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1336 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1339 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1342 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1343 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1347 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1348 --------------------------------
1351 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1352 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1356 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1357 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1358 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1359 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1360 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1363 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1364 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1365 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1368 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1369 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1370 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1373 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1374 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1375 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1376 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1377 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1380 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1381 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1382 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1385 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1388 * Improved build system.
1389 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1390 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1391 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1392 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1395 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1396 --------------------------------
1399 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1402 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1403 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1404 * Video 4 Linux support
1405 * CD Digital Audio support
1406 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1409 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1410 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1411 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1412 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1415 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1416 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1417 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1418 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1419 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1420 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1421 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1424 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1425 * New HTTP remote control interface
1428 * 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.
1429 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1430 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1431 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1434 * New reset option for the preferences
1435 * You can set your language in the prefences
1436 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1437 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1438 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1439 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1442 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1443 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1444 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1447 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1448 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1449 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1450 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1451 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1452 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1453 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1454 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1455 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1456 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1459 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1460 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1461 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1462 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1463 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1464 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1465 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1468 * Interface localization
1469 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1470 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1471 * New full-featured Preferences window
1474 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1475 --------------------------------
1478 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1479 * support for skins at the interface level
1480 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1481 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1482 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1483 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1484 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1487 * fixed HTTP redirects
1488 * support for opening an entire directory
1489 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1490 * new video4linux access plug-in
1491 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1494 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1495 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1496 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1499 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1500 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1501 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1502 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1503 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1504 * new codec for raw I420 video
1505 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1508 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1509 (although it still misses some important features)
1510 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1513 * new HTTP output support
1514 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1515 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1518 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1521 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1524 * reorderable playlist
1525 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1526 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1527 * support for mono audio output devices
1528 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1529 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1530 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1531 * the messages window remembers more lines
1532 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1533 * http and ogg stream output options
1534 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1537 * new skinnable interface
1538 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1540 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1541 * support for FLAC audio format
1542 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1544 * network tab in the interface
1545 * "apply" handling in preferences
1548 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1549 ---------------------------------
1552 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1553 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1554 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1555 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1557 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1558 * DTS S/PDIF support
1561 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1562 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1563 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1564 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1567 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1568 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1571 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1574 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1577 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1579 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1580 * rc interface is now fully useable
1581 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1584 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1585 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1586 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1587 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1588 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1590 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1591 * support for mouse gestures
1592 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1595 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1596 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1599 * improved ID3 tag detection
1600 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1601 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1602 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1604 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1607 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1608 ---------------------------------
1611 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1612 English was set as the preferred language
1615 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1616 --------------------------------
1619 * new mouse gesture interface
1620 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1624 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1625 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1626 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1629 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1630 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1634 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1637 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1638 without the user consent
1641 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1643 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1644 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1645 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1648 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1649 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1650 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1651 * playlist enhancements
1652 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1653 * new step forward/step backward commands
1654 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1655 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1656 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1659 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1660 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1661 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1664 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1665 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1668 * native video output is working again
1669 * only commandline interface support
1670 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1673 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1674 --------------------------------
1677 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1678 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1679 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1680 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1681 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1682 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1683 and A/52 streams are supported)
1684 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1689 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1690 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1691 * VCD entry points support
1692 * VCD image file support
1695 * support for *.asf format
1696 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1697 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1698 * support for ogg encapsulation
1699 * support for raw DV format
1700 * support for *.wav format
1701 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1704 Stream discovery & playlists:
1705 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1706 * support for .m3u file format
1707 * support for .asx file format
1708 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1711 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1712 (only available with the .avi demux)
1713 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1714 * support for raw PCM data
1715 * support for Cinepak video codec
1716 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1717 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1718 * support for Xvid codec
1719 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1720 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1721 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1723 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1725 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1728 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1731 * new WxWindows interface
1732 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1733 device and the channels configuration
1734 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1735 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1736 format that VLC can play
1737 * new swedish translation
1738 * enhancements of the playlist window
1739 * new messages window to see debug info
1740 * fixed a few crashes
1743 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1744 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1745 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1746 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working