3 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2-svn:
4 -----------------------------------------------------
7 * Rewrite of the playlist
9 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
10 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
11 * Preferences improvements:
12 - New organization, designed to improve usability
13 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
15 * Core image manipulation support
16 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
17 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
18 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
19 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
20 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
21 * Renamed --filter to --video-filter
22 Multiple video filters are now seperated by ',' instead of ':'
23 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
27 * Support for SOCKS proxy
28 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
29 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
30 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
31 * Better support for Kasenna streams
32 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
33 * Massive Matroska improvements
34 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
35 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
36 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
37 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
38 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
41 * Dirac decoder and encoder
43 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
44 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
47 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
48 * Brand new SAP module
49 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
50 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
53 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
56 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
57 * Image file video output (png)
58 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
59 * Improvements to wall video filter
60 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
61 * Support for font color and opacity
62 * Fixed Mac OS X OpenGL output
68 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
69 - Seeking support in VoD streams
73 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
74 - Improved preferences
75 - Improvements to the wizard
76 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
82 - Support for the new playlist system
84 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
87 * Screensaver disabling fix
88 * DirectShow tuner configuration
89 * Support for no-decoration windows
92 * Support for single-buffered overlay
101 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back
104 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
107 The following languages were added
117 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
118 -----------------------------------------------------
121 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
122 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
125 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
126 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
127 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
130 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
133 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
136 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
139 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
140 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
141 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
145 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
147 * Support of playlist group announcement
149 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
150 -----------------------------------------------------
153 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
154 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
155 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
156 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
157 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
158 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
161 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
162 (Stream your desktop)
163 * Improved DVD support:
164 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
165 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
166 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
167 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
168 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
169 (selection of titles/chapters).
172 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
173 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
174 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
175 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
176 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
177 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
178 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
179 * Improved Ogg demuxer
180 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
181 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
184 * G.726 audio support
185 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
186 * MPEG-4 text support
187 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
188 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
189 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
193 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
194 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
195 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
196 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
197 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
198 * DVB subtitles encoder
199 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
200 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
202 * Text track muxing for mp4
203 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
204 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
205 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
206 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
207 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
210 * H.263 RTP streaming support
211 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
212 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
215 * New audio equalizer filter
216 * Very trivial volume normalizer
217 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
218 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
219 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
222 * Roku HD1000 Video output
223 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
224 with support for effects.
225 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
226 - New filters can be streamed.
227 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
228 - Centralized scaling and blending
230 - "time", to display current time
231 - "marq", to display a marquee
234 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
235 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
236 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
237 * A few skins2 improvements
238 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
239 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
240 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
241 * Improved CORBA control module
244 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
245 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
246 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
249 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
250 * Experimental SVG rendering module
251 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
254 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
255 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
256 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
257 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
258 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
261 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
264 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
265 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
268 * Server/client network synchronization module
269 * VBrick streams fully supported
270 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
273 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
274 --------------------------------
277 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
278 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
279 * Improved HTTP daemon.
280 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
283 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
284 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
285 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
286 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
287 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
288 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
289 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
292 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
293 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
294 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
295 * Improved directory access module.
296 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
297 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
298 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
299 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
300 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
303 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
304 * mmsh streaming fixes.
305 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
308 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
309 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
310 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
313 * Improved session announcement system.
314 * Minimize threads usage by default.
315 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
316 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
317 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
318 * Improved transrater.
319 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
320 * New configuration system.
321 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
324 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
325 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
326 * Supports live streams and VoD.
327 * Supports scheduling.
328 * Telnet interface for vlm.
329 * HTTP interface for vlm.
332 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
333 - Ability to embed video output.
334 - Support for bitmap fonts.
335 - Lots of improvements.
336 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
337 - New design and set of icons.
338 - Ability to embed video output.
339 - Support for hotkeys.
340 - Support for bookmarks.
342 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
343 - Better hotkeys handling.
346 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
347 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
348 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
349 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
352 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
353 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
354 * Improved Windows installer.
360 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
361 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
363 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
364 ---------------------------------
367 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
368 * Playing MOD files is working now.
371 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
372 ---------------------------------
375 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
376 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
379 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
380 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
381 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
382 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
385 * Internal improvments
386 * Improved import/export
389 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
391 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
392 small and strange formats.
394 * New MOD audio demux.
395 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
396 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
397 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
398 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
401 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
402 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
403 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
409 * New opengl video output plugin.
412 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
413 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
415 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
416 ---------------------------------
419 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
420 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
421 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
422 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
423 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
424 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
425 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
426 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
429 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
434 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
435 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
436 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
437 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
438 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
439 * Reworked DVB tuning.
440 * Better Icecast support.
441 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
442 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
445 * Support for Theora video encoding.
446 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
447 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
448 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
449 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
450 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
451 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
454 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
455 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
456 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
457 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
458 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
459 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
460 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
461 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
462 * Preliminary RTP support.
463 * Fixes to SAP announces.
468 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
469 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
471 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
472 - Improvements and help in preferences
473 - New streaming wizard
474 - Revised Disc Open menu
476 - Improvements of the standard pages
477 - Support for new commands
478 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
481 * Many fixes to the SAP module
482 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
485 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
486 * Text subtitles autodetection.
487 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
488 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
489 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
490 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
491 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
492 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
493 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
496 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
498 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
499 * Support for Panther.
500 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
501 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
504 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
505 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
506 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
507 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
508 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
509 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
510 * Multimonitor support (untested).
511 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
514 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
515 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
516 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
519 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
522 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
523 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
524 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
525 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
527 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
528 ---------------------------------
531 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
534 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
535 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
538 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
539 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
542 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
545 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
546 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
549 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
552 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
555 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
556 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
559 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
560 ---------------------------------
563 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
564 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
568 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
569 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
570 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
572 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
573 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
576 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
579 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
582 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
583 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
586 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
587 ---------------------------------
590 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
591 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
595 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
596 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
597 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
598 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
599 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
602 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
603 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
604 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
607 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
608 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
609 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
612 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
613 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
614 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
615 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
616 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
619 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
620 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
621 * A new CORBA control plugin.
624 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
627 * Improved build system.
628 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
629 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
630 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
631 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
634 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
635 ---------------------------------
638 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
641 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
642 * Fixed large file support on Windows
643 * Video 4 Linux support
644 * CD Digital Audio support
645 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
648 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
649 * Support for OpenDML avi files
650 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
651 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
654 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
655 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
656 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
657 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
658 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
659 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
660 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
663 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
664 * New HTTP remote control interface
667 * 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.
668 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
669 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
670 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
673 * New reset option for the preferences
674 * You can set your language in the prefences
675 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
676 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
677 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
678 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
681 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
682 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
683 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
686 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
687 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
688 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
689 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
690 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
691 * New icons by Davor Orel.
692 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
693 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
694 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
695 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
698 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
699 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
700 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
701 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
702 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
703 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
704 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
707 * Interface localization
708 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
709 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
710 * New full-featured Preferences window
712 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
713 ---------------------------------
716 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
717 * support for skins at the interface level
718 * new OSD module using Freetype2
719 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
720 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
721 input level before dropping out of date frames.
722 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
725 * fixed HTTP redirects
726 * support for opening an entire directory
727 * EOF should be detected more reliably
728 * new video4linux access plug-in
729 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
732 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
733 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
734 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
737 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
738 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
739 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
740 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
741 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
742 * new codec for raw I420 video
743 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
746 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
747 (although it still misses some important features)
748 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
751 * new HTTP output support
752 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
753 * fixed AV synchronization issues
756 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
759 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
762 * reorderable playlist
763 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
764 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
765 * support for mono audio output devices
766 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
767 * fixed several cosmetic issues
768 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
769 * the messages window remembers more lines
770 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
771 * http and ogg stream output options
772 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
775 * new skinnable interface
776 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
778 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
779 * support for FLAC audio format
780 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
782 * network tab in the interface
783 * "apply" handling in preferences
786 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
787 ---------------------------------
790 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
791 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
792 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
793 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
795 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
799 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
800 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
801 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
802 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
805 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
806 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
809 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
812 * fixed the GNU-pth support
815 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
817 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
818 * rc interface is now fully useable
819 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
822 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
823 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
824 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
825 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
826 * VLC now uses the default audio device
828 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
829 * support for mouse gestures
830 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
833 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
834 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
837 * improved ID3 tag detection
838 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
839 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
840 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
842 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
845 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
846 ---------------------------------
849 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
850 English was set as the preferred language
853 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
854 --------------------------------
857 * new mouse gesture interface
858 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
862 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
863 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
864 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
867 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
868 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
872 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
875 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
876 without the user consent
879 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
881 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
882 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
883 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
886 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
887 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
888 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
889 * playlist enhancements
890 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
891 * new step forward/step backward commands
892 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
893 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
894 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
897 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
898 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
899 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
902 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
903 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
906 * native video output is working again
907 * only commandline interface support
908 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
911 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
912 --------------------------------
915 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
916 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
917 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
918 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
919 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
920 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
921 and A/52 streams are supported)
922 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
927 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
928 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
929 * VCD entry points support
930 * VCD image file support
933 * support for *.asf format
934 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
935 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
936 * support for ogg encapsulation
937 * support for raw DV format
938 * support for *.wav format
939 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
942 Stream discovery & playlists:
943 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
944 * support for .m3u file format
945 * support for .asx file format
946 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
949 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
950 (only available with the .avi demux)
951 * support for ADPCM audio codec
952 * support for raw PCM data
953 * support for Cinepak video codec
954 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
955 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
956 * support for Xvid codec
957 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
958 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
959 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
961 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
963 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
966 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
969 * new WxWindows interface
970 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
971 device and the channels configuration
972 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
973 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
974 format that VLC can play
975 * new swedish translation
976 * enhancements of the playlist window
977 * new messages window to see debug info
978 * fixed a few crashes
981 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
982 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
983 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
984 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working