3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet)
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
12 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
13 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
14 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
15 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
16 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
17 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
24 * Vastly improved playlist support:
25 * Media library support
27 * Shoutcast TV listings
28 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
31 * VP60/VP61 codecs support
34 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splitted into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
35 and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
36 * New puzzle video output filter
37 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
38 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a video)
42 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
44 * Improved user interaction
47 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
48 --------------------------------
51 * Shoutcast TV listings support
54 * Support for RTSP authentication
55 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
56 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
57 * ATSC support for DVB input
58 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
59 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
60 * Improved support for Flash Video files
63 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
64 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
65 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
66 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
67 * Matroska WavPack support
68 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
69 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
70 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
73 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
74 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
75 * Improved libcaca support
79 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
80 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
82 * Systray support in skins
84 * Support for Apple Remote control
85 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
86 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
87 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
88 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
90 * Notifications using notification-daemon
93 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
95 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
96 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
97 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
98 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
99 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
101 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
102 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
111 * Updates to the libvlc API
112 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
116 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
117 ---------------------------------
120 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
121 * Support for downloading updates
125 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
126 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
127 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
128 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
130 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
131 * Improved subtitles encoding support
132 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
135 * Cook (Real audio) support
137 Playlist / Services discovery:
138 * XSPF playlist support
140 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
143 * New JACK audio output
147 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
148 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
149 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
150 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
151 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
152 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
155 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
158 * System to inform the user and request information
159 - HTTP authentication
163 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
164 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
165 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
168 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
169 - Improved playlist handling
170 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
172 - Embedded Video output
173 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
174 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
175 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
176 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
177 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
179 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
180 - A bunch of new RPN functions
183 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
186 * Mac-Intel compatibility
187 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
188 * Growl "Now playing" support
191 * Ability to log to syslog
192 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
195 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
197 * A bit more automatic testing
199 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
200 ---------------------------------
203 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
204 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
207 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
208 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
211 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
214 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
215 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
221 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
223 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
224 --------------------------------
227 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
231 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
232 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
233 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
236 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
237 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
238 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
239 * GnomeVFS input module
240 * Support for RTP packet reordering
241 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
244 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
245 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
246 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
249 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
250 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
256 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
257 Mixer and Dolby Surround
260 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
261 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
262 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
265 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
267 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
268 - New extended controls panel
269 - New bookmarks window
270 - Fixed playlist sorting
271 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
273 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
274 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
275 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
276 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
280 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
281 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
283 - Include macro to include other files
287 * Should now work outside IE as well
290 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
293 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
294 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
297 The following languages were added:
302 The following languages were re-added:
305 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
306 --------------------------------
309 * Rewrite of the playlist
311 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
312 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
313 * Preferences improvements:
314 - New organization, designed to improve usability
315 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
317 * Core image manipulation support
318 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
319 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
320 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
321 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
322 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
323 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
324 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
325 now separated by ':' instead of ','
326 * Access filter architecture
327 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
328 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
332 * Support for SOCKS proxy
333 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
334 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
335 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
336 * Better support for Kasenna streams
337 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
338 * Massive Matroska improvements
339 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
341 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
342 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
343 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
344 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
345 * Support for FTP over IPv6
348 * Dirac decoder and encoder
349 * PNG decoder/encoder
350 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
351 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
354 * New Record and Timeshift filters
357 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
358 * Brand new SAP module
359 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
360 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
361 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
362 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
363 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
364 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
368 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
371 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
372 * Image file video output (png)
373 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
374 * Improvements to wall video filter
375 * Support for font color and opacity
381 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
382 - Seeking support in VoD streams
383 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
387 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
388 - Improved preferences
389 - Improvements to the wizard
390 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
392 - Redesigned playlist
393 - Improved preferences
395 - Support for multiple actions
398 - Support for the new playlist system
400 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
403 * Screensaver disabling fix
404 * DirectShow tuner configuration
405 * Support for no-decoration windows
408 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
409 * The OpenGL video output is back
410 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
411 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
412 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
413 is not yet available in the new module
414 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
417 * Support for single-buffered overlay
426 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
429 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
432 The following languages were added:
438 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
439 -----------------------------------------------------
442 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
443 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
446 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
447 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
448 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
451 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
454 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
457 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
460 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
461 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
462 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
466 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
468 * Support of playlist group announcement
470 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
471 -----------------------------------------------------
474 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
475 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
476 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
477 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
478 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
479 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
482 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
483 (Stream your desktop)
484 * Improved DVD support:
485 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
486 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
487 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
488 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
489 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
490 (selection of titles/chapters).
493 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
494 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
495 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
496 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
497 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
498 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
499 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
500 * Improved Ogg demuxer
501 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
502 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
505 * G.726 audio support
506 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
507 * MPEG-4 text support
508 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
509 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
510 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
514 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
515 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
516 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
517 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
518 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
519 * DVB subtitles encoder
520 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
521 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
523 * Text track muxing for mp4
524 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
525 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
526 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
527 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
528 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
531 * H.263 RTP streaming support
532 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
533 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
536 * New audio equalizer filter
537 * Very trivial volume normalizer
538 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
539 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
540 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
543 * Roku HD1000 Video output
544 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
545 with support for effects.
546 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
547 - New filters can be streamed.
548 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
549 - Centralized scaling and blending
551 - "time", to display current time
552 - "marq", to display a marquee
555 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
556 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
557 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
558 * A few skins2 improvements
559 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
560 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
561 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
562 * Improved CORBA control module
565 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
566 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
567 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
570 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
571 * Experimental SVG rendering module
572 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
575 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
576 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
577 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
578 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
579 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
582 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
585 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
586 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
589 * Server/client network synchronization module
590 * VBrick streams fully supported
591 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
594 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
595 --------------------------------
598 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
599 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
600 * Improved HTTP daemon.
601 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
604 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
605 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
606 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
607 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
608 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
609 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
610 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
613 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
614 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
615 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
616 * Improved directory access module.
617 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
618 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
619 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
620 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
621 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
624 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
625 * mmsh streaming fixes.
626 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
629 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
630 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
631 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
634 * Improved session announcement system.
635 * Minimize threads usage by default.
636 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
637 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
638 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
639 * Improved transrater.
640 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
641 * New configuration system.
642 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
645 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
646 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
647 * Supports live streams and VoD.
648 * Supports scheduling.
649 * Telnet interface for vlm.
650 * HTTP interface for vlm.
653 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
654 - Ability to embed video output.
655 - Support for bitmap fonts.
656 - Lots of improvements.
657 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
658 - New design and set of icons.
659 - Ability to embed video output.
660 - Support for hotkeys.
661 - Support for bookmarks.
663 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
664 - Better hotkeys handling.
667 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
668 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
669 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
670 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
673 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
674 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
675 * Improved Windows installer.
681 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
682 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
684 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
685 ---------------------------------
688 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
689 * Playing MOD files is working now.
692 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
693 ---------------------------------
696 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
697 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
700 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
701 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
702 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
703 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
706 * Internal improvments
707 * Improved import/export
710 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
712 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
713 small and strange formats.
715 * New MOD audio demux.
716 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
717 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
718 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
719 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
722 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
723 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
724 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
730 * New opengl video output plugin.
733 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
734 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
736 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
737 ---------------------------------
740 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
741 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
742 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
743 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
744 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
745 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
746 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
747 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
750 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
755 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
756 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
757 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
758 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
759 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
760 * Reworked DVB tuning.
761 * Better Icecast support.
762 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
763 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
766 * Support for Theora video encoding.
767 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
768 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
769 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
770 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
771 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
772 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
775 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
776 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
777 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
778 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
779 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
780 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
781 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
782 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
783 * Preliminary RTP support.
784 * Fixes to SAP announces.
789 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
790 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
792 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
793 - Improvements and help in preferences
794 - New streaming wizard
795 - Revised Disc Open menu
797 - Improvements of the standard pages
798 - Support for new commands
799 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
802 * Many fixes to the SAP module
803 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
806 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
807 * Text subtitles autodetection.
808 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
809 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
810 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
811 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
812 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
813 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
814 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
817 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
819 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
820 * Support for Panther.
821 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
822 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
825 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
826 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
827 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
828 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
829 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
830 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
831 * Multimonitor support (untested).
832 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
835 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
836 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
837 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
840 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
843 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
844 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
845 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
846 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
848 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
849 ---------------------------------
852 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
855 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
856 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
859 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
860 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
863 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
866 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
867 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
870 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
873 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
876 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
877 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
880 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
881 ---------------------------------
884 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
885 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
889 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
890 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
891 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
893 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
894 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
897 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
900 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
903 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
904 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
907 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
908 ---------------------------------
911 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
912 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
916 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
917 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
918 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
919 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
920 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
923 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
924 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
925 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
928 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
929 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
930 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
933 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
934 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
935 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
936 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
937 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
940 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
941 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
942 * A new CORBA control plugin.
945 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
948 * Improved build system.
949 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
950 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
951 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
952 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
955 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
956 ---------------------------------
959 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
962 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
963 * Fixed large file support on Windows
964 * Video 4 Linux support
965 * CD Digital Audio support
966 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
969 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
970 * Support for OpenDML avi files
971 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
972 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
975 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
976 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
977 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
978 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
979 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
980 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
981 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
984 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
985 * New HTTP remote control interface
988 * 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.
989 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
990 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
991 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
994 * New reset option for the preferences
995 * You can set your language in the prefences
996 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
997 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
998 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
999 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1002 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1003 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1004 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1007 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1008 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1009 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1010 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1011 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1012 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1013 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1014 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1015 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1016 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1019 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1020 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1021 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1022 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1023 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1024 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1025 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1028 * Interface localization
1029 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1030 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1031 * New full-featured Preferences window
1033 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1034 ---------------------------------
1037 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1038 * support for skins at the interface level
1039 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1040 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1041 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1042 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1043 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1046 * fixed HTTP redirects
1047 * support for opening an entire directory
1048 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1049 * new video4linux access plug-in
1050 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1053 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1054 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1055 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1058 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1059 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1060 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1061 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1062 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1063 * new codec for raw I420 video
1064 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1067 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1068 (although it still misses some important features)
1069 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1072 * new HTTP output support
1073 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1074 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1077 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1080 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1083 * reorderable playlist
1084 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1085 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1086 * support for mono audio output devices
1087 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1088 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1089 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1090 * the messages window remembers more lines
1091 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1092 * http and ogg stream output options
1093 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1096 * new skinnable interface
1097 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1099 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1100 * support for FLAC audio format
1101 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1103 * network tab in the interface
1104 * "apply" handling in preferences
1107 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1108 ---------------------------------
1111 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1112 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1113 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1114 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1116 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1117 * DTS S/PDIF support
1120 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1121 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1122 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1123 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1126 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1127 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1130 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1133 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1136 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1138 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1139 * rc interface is now fully useable
1140 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1143 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1144 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1145 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1146 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1147 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1149 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1150 * support for mouse gestures
1151 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1154 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1155 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1158 * improved ID3 tag detection
1159 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1160 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1161 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1163 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1166 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1167 ---------------------------------
1170 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1171 English was set as the preferred language
1174 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1175 --------------------------------
1178 * new mouse gesture interface
1179 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1183 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1184 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1185 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1188 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1189 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1193 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1196 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1197 without the user consent
1200 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1202 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1203 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1204 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1207 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1208 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1209 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1210 * playlist enhancements
1211 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1212 * new step forward/step backward commands
1213 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1214 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1215 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1218 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1219 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1220 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1223 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1224 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1227 * native video output is working again
1228 * only commandline interface support
1229 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1232 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1233 --------------------------------
1236 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1237 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1238 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1239 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1240 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1241 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1242 and A/52 streams are supported)
1243 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1248 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1249 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1250 * VCD entry points support
1251 * VCD image file support
1254 * support for *.asf format
1255 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1256 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1257 * support for ogg encapsulation
1258 * support for raw DV format
1259 * support for *.wav format
1260 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1263 Stream discovery & playlists:
1264 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1265 * support for .m3u file format
1266 * support for .asx file format
1267 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1270 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1271 (only available with the .avi demux)
1272 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1273 * support for raw PCM data
1274 * support for Cinepak video codec
1275 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1276 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1277 * support for Xvid codec
1278 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1279 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1280 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1282 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1284 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1287 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1290 * new WxWindows interface
1291 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1292 device and the channels configuration
1293 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1294 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1295 format that VLC can play
1296 * new swedish translation
1297 * enhancements of the playlist window
1298 * new messages window to see debug info
1299 * fixed a few crashes
1302 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1303 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1304 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1305 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working