1 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
6 * Support for the sftp protocol
7 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
8 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
9 * New memory input (imem) module to feed VLC from data in memory
10 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams
13 * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
14 * PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
15 * Invmem module improvements
16 * Support for Atrac1 codec
17 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities
18 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
19 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
20 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles .SRT and .SSA
23 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
24 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
25 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
26 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
27 * Various EGP improvements
28 * Support for embedded subtitles in .avi ODML files
31 * WPL playlist support
32 * ZPL playlist support
33 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
34 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
35 * Podcast images are now displayed
38 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
39 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
40 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
41 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
42 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
43 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
44 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
45 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
46 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
47 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
48 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
51 * new content extensions lua framework
55 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
56 * 3F1R to stereo downmix filter
57 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler,
58 linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and
59 A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
60 * NEON assembly audio converter module
61 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
64 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
67 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
68 * Service discovery based on libudev
71 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
72 * x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example
73 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
74 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
75 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
76 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
79 * New smem module, streaming to memory
80 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
81 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
84 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
86 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
89 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
92 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
93 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
94 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
95 by Andy Matuschak et al.
96 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
99 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
100 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
103 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
107 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
110 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
113 * csri codec. Use libass module instead.
114 * galaktos. Use new projectM module instead.
115 * showintf. Useless in qt and mac os X
117 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use new XCB modules instead.
118 * HAL. Use libudev instead.
119 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
120 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
121 * opie, qte and qte_main
122 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed. Use the ugly one.
123 * XvMC accelerated modules. Use VAAPI instead.
124 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux. Use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
126 * cddax. Use cdda instead
127 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
128 * realaudio codecs is remove in favour of avcodec
129 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
132 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 (not yet released):
133 ---------------------------------------------------
135 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
138 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
139 --------------------------------
142 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
143 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
146 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
147 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
150 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
151 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
154 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
157 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
158 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
161 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
162 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
165 * New Walloon translation
166 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
169 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
170 --------------------------------
173 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
174 regressions in most popular drivers
175 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
178 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
179 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
180 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
183 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
184 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
187 * Update for appletrailers lua script
188 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
189 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
190 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
191 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
194 * New udev module for linux
197 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
200 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
203 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
204 --------------------------------
207 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
208 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
209 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
212 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
213 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
216 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
217 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
220 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
223 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
224 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
225 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
226 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
229 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
230 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
231 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
232 - no support for Goom and SDL
233 - limited text rendering support
234 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
237 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
238 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
239 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
240 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
241 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
242 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
243 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
244 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
245 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
249 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
252 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
255 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
256 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
257 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
258 Arabic and French translation updates
261 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
262 --------------------------------
265 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
266 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
267 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
268 * Fix Dailymotion access script
269 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
270 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
273 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
274 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
277 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
278 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
279 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
282 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
285 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
286 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
289 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
290 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
291 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
292 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
293 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
294 * Fix various crashes
297 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
299 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
302 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
303 ---------------------------------
307 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
308 See 'Access:' for more info.
309 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
312 * Instantaneous pausing
313 * Frame-by-Frame playback
314 * Finer speed control
315 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
316 * Timeshift for most medias
317 * RTSP trickplay support
318 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
321 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
322 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
323 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
324 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
325 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
326 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
327 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
328 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
329 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
330 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
333 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
334 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
335 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
336 * Metadata for mod files are supported
337 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
338 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
339 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
342 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
343 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
346 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
347 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
348 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
349 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
350 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
351 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
352 * DVB scanning on linux
353 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
354 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
355 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
356 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
357 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
358 * MTP device access on Unix
359 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
360 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
363 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
364 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
365 Windows and Mac OS X.
368 * Export the playlist in HTML
369 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
370 * Better metadata handling and reading
372 Linux/Windows interface:
373 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
374 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
375 * Recently played items list
376 * Interface toolbar customizations
377 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
380 - Improvements on many dialogs
381 - New dialog for plugins listing
382 - Fixed-size mode for videos
383 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
384 * Better integration in GTK environments
387 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
388 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
389 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
390 * Additional usability improvements
393 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
394 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
395 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
396 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
397 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
400 * New Maemo port with:
401 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
402 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
405 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
408 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
409 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
410 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
411 * Support for latest iSight models
414 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
415 * Surround support for PulseAudio
418 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
419 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
420 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
421 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
422 The old image video output has been removed.
423 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
424 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
427 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
435 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
436 --------------------------------------
442 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
443 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
444 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
445 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
446 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
447 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
448 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
450 Various fixes to the following modules:
453 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
454 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
457 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
462 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
463 ---------------------------------
466 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
467 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
470 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
471 ---------------------------------
474 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
477 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
480 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
481 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
482 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
483 main controller window.
484 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
487 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
492 * Updates of other localizations
495 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
496 * Lots of small bugfixes.
497 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
498 * Telnet fixes on Windows
499 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
502 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
503 ---------------------------------
506 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
508 Bunch of small bugfixes.
511 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
512 --------------------------------
517 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
518 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
521 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
522 --------------------------------
524 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
525 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
528 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
531 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
532 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
535 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
536 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
539 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
540 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
541 * Various fixed in playlist
544 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
547 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
550 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
551 ------------------------------------
553 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
554 * Fixes several memory leaks.
557 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
558 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
559 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
562 * Stability fix for the video output.
565 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
566 --------------------------------
569 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
570 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
571 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
572 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
573 * Fixed update system bugs
574 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
577 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
578 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
579 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
580 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
581 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
582 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
583 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
584 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
585 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
586 modern Mac OS X versions
589 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
590 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
592 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
593 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
596 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
597 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
598 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
599 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
600 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
601 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
604 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
605 --------------------------------
607 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
608 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
612 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
613 --------------------------------
615 * Multiple bug fixes.
618 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
619 ---------------------------------
623 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
624 recent to work correctly
625 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
626 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
627 edit the ".hosts" file.
628 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
629 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
630 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
631 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
632 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
633 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
634 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
635 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
636 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
637 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
638 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
639 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
640 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
641 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
642 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
643 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
644 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
645 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
646 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
647 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
648 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
649 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
650 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
651 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
652 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
653 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
654 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
655 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
656 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
657 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
658 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
659 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
660 and postproc modules.
661 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
662 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
663 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
664 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
666 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
668 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
669 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
671 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
672 * Glide video output module has been removed.
678 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
680 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
681 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
684 * Vastly improved playlist support:
685 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
687 * Shoutcast TV listings
688 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
690 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
691 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
693 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
696 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
697 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
698 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
699 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
700 * JACK audio input support
701 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
702 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
703 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
704 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
705 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
706 * Experimental EyeTV access module
707 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
708 (available as a separate download).
709 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
711 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
712 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
713 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
715 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
716 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
719 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
720 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
721 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
722 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
724 * APEv1/2 tags support
725 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
726 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
728 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
729 * TiVo Series 2 support
730 * CD+G karaoke Files support
735 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
736 * Flash Screen Video support
737 * CamStudio Screen Video support
738 * DosBox Capture support
739 * Karl Morton's Video support
740 * limited atrac3 support
742 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
743 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
744 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
746 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
747 * NellyMoser ASAO support
748 * APE (Monkey audio) support
749 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
750 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
753 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
754 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
755 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
756 * AQTitle subtitles support
757 * MKV USF subtitles support
758 * HTML-based subtitles support
759 * MPSub subtitles support
760 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
761 * MPL2 subtitles support
762 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
763 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
764 * Realtext subtitle support
765 * DKS subtitle support
766 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
767 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
770 * Flash Screen Video support
771 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
773 Video outputs and filters:
774 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
775 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
776 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
777 * New puzzle video output filter
778 * Re-written motion detection video filter
779 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
781 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
782 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
783 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
784 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
785 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
786 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
787 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
788 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
789 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
790 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
791 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
792 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
793 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
794 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
796 Audio outputs and filters:
797 * Replay gain support
798 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
799 new scaletempo audio filter)
800 * New spatializer audio filter
801 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
804 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
805 * New RTP payload formats:
806 * Speex voice audio codec
807 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
808 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
809 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
810 * DCCP transport for RTP
811 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
816 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
817 end-user suitable way.
818 * Improved user interaction
819 * Improved mouse gestures
820 * Vastly improved Update checker
821 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
823 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
824 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
826 * Improved video output features
827 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
828 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
829 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
830 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
831 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
833 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
834 if libncursesw is available.
835 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
836 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
837 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
839 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
840 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
841 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
842 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
843 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
844 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
845 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
846 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
849 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
850 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
851 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
854 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
855 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
856 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
857 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
858 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
859 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
862 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
863 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
873 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
874 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
875 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
878 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
879 ----------------------------------
882 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
885 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
886 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
887 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
888 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
889 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
890 * Updated Polish translation
893 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
894 ----------------------------------
897 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
898 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
899 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
902 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
903 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
904 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
905 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
906 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
907 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
908 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
909 to an unexpected application termination
910 * New Serbian translation
911 * Updated Romanian translation
914 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
915 ----------------------------------
918 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
919 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
920 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
921 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
922 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
923 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
924 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
925 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
928 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
929 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
930 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
931 * Fixed AAC resampling
932 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
933 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
936 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
937 ----------------------------------
940 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
941 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
942 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
943 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
944 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
947 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
948 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
949 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
950 * Close MMS access on network timeout
951 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
954 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
955 ----------------------------------
958 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
959 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
962 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
963 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
964 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
965 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
967 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
971 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
974 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
977 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
980 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
983 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
984 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
985 encoding on multi-cpu systems
986 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
987 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
989 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
990 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
991 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
992 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
995 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
998 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
999 ----------------------------------
1002 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1003 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1004 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1006 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1007 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1009 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1010 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1013 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1015 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1016 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1017 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1018 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1019 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1020 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1021 two different movies
1022 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1023 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1024 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1027 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1030 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1031 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1032 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1033 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1036 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1037 ----------------------------------
1039 Various bugfixes, notably:
1040 * Windows Vista compatibility
1041 * Cropping in Direct3D
1042 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1043 * RSS filter string overflow
1045 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1047 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1048 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1051 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1052 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1055 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1058 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1061 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1064 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1065 ----------------------------------
1067 Various bugfixes, notably:
1068 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1069 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1070 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1071 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1072 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1073 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1076 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1077 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1080 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1082 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1083 * Diverse usability improvements
1084 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1085 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1086 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1089 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1090 ---------------------------------
1092 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1093 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1096 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1099 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1100 --------------------------------
1103 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1106 * Support for RTSP authentication
1107 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1108 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1109 * ATSC support for DVB input
1110 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1111 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1112 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1115 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1116 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1117 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1118 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1119 * Matroska WavPack support
1120 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1121 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1122 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1125 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1126 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1127 * Improved libcaca support
1131 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1132 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1134 * Systray support in skins
1136 * Support for Apple Remote control
1137 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1138 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1139 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1140 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1142 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1145 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1146 Windows 9x/ME users:
1147 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1148 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1149 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1150 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1151 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1153 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1154 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1163 * Updates to the libvlc API
1164 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1167 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1168 --------------------------------
1171 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1172 * Support for downloading updates
1176 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1177 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1178 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1179 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1181 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1182 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1183 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1186 * Cook (Real audio) support
1188 Playlist / Services discovery:
1189 * XSPF playlist support
1191 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1194 * New JACK audio output
1197 * New video filters:
1198 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1199 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1200 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1201 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1202 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1203 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1206 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1209 * System to inform the user and request information
1210 - HTTP authentication
1214 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1215 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1216 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1219 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1220 - Improved playlist handling
1221 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1223 - Embedded Video output
1224 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1225 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1226 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1227 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1228 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1230 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1231 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1234 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1237 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1238 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1239 * Growl "Now playing" support
1242 * Ability to log to syslog
1243 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1246 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1248 * A bit more automatic testing
1251 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1252 ---------------------------------
1255 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1256 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1259 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1260 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1263 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1266 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1267 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1273 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1276 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1277 --------------------------------
1280 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1284 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1285 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1286 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1289 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1290 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1291 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1292 * GnomeVFS input module
1293 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1294 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1297 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1298 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1299 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1302 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1303 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1309 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1310 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1313 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1314 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1315 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1318 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1320 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1321 - New extended controls panel
1322 - New bookmarks window
1323 - Fixed playlist sorting
1324 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1326 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1327 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1328 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1329 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1333 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1334 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1336 - Include macro to include other files
1340 * Should now work outside IE as well
1343 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1346 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1347 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1350 The following languages were added:
1354 * Simplified Chinese
1355 The following languages were re-added:
1359 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1360 --------------------------------
1363 * Rewrite of the playlist
1365 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1366 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1367 * Preferences improvements:
1368 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1369 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1371 * Core image manipulation support
1372 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1373 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1374 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1375 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1376 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1377 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1378 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1379 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1380 * Access filter architecture
1381 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1382 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1386 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1387 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1388 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1389 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1390 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1391 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1392 * Massive Matroska improvements
1393 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1395 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1396 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1397 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1398 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1399 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1401 Decoders / Encoders:
1402 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1403 * PNG decoder/encoder
1404 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1405 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1408 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1411 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1412 * Brand new SAP module
1413 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1414 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1415 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1416 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1417 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1418 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1422 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1425 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1426 * Image file video output (png)
1427 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1428 * Improvements to wall video filter
1429 * Support for font color and opacity
1435 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1436 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1437 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1441 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1442 - Improved preferences
1443 - Improvements to the wizard
1444 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1446 - Redesigned playlist
1447 - Improved preferences
1449 - Support for multiple actions
1452 - Support for the new playlist system
1454 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1457 * Screensaver disabling fix
1458 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1459 * Support for no-decoration windows
1462 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1463 * The OpenGL video output is back
1464 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1465 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1466 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1467 is not yet available in the new module
1468 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1471 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1480 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1483 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1486 The following languages were added:
1492 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1493 --------------------------------
1496 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1497 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1500 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1501 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1502 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1505 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1508 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1511 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1514 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1515 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1516 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1520 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1522 * Support of playlist group announcement
1525 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1526 --------------------------------
1529 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1530 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1531 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1532 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1533 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1534 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1537 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1538 (Stream your desktop)
1539 * Improved DVD support:
1540 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1541 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1542 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1543 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1544 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1545 (selection of titles/chapters).
1548 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1549 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1550 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1551 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1552 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1553 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1554 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1555 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1556 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1557 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1560 * G.726 audio support
1561 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1562 * MPEG-4 text support
1563 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1564 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1565 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1569 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1570 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1571 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1572 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1573 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1574 * DVB subtitles encoder
1575 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1576 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1578 * Text track muxing for mp4
1579 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1580 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1581 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1582 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1583 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1584 * Improved ASF muxer
1586 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1587 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1588 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1591 * New audio equalizer filter
1592 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1593 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1594 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1595 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1598 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1599 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1600 with support for effects.
1601 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1602 - New filters can be streamed.
1603 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1604 - Centralized scaling and blending
1606 - "time", to display current time
1607 - "marq", to display a marquee
1610 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1611 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1612 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1613 * A few skins2 improvements
1614 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1615 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1616 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1617 * Improved CORBA control module
1620 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1621 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1622 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1625 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1626 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1627 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1630 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1631 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1632 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1633 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1634 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1637 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1640 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1641 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1644 * Server/client network synchronization module
1645 * VBrick streams fully supported
1646 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1650 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1651 --------------------------------
1654 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1655 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1656 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1657 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1660 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1661 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1662 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1663 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1664 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1665 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1666 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1669 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1670 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1671 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1672 * Improved directory access module.
1673 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1674 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1675 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1676 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1677 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1680 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1681 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1682 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1685 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1686 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1687 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1690 * Improved session announcement system.
1691 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1692 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1693 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1694 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1695 * Improved transrater.
1696 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1697 * New configuration system.
1698 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1701 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1702 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1703 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1704 * Supports scheduling.
1705 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1706 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1709 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1710 - Ability to embed video output.
1711 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1712 - Lots of improvements.
1713 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1714 - New design and set of icons.
1715 - Ability to embed video output.
1716 - Support for hotkeys.
1717 - Support for bookmarks.
1719 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1720 - Better hotkeys handling.
1723 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1724 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1725 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1726 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1729 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1730 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1731 * Improved Windows installer.
1737 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1738 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1741 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1742 ---------------------------------
1745 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1746 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1749 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1750 --------------------------------
1753 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1754 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1757 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1758 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1759 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1760 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1763 * Internal improvments
1764 * Improved import/export
1767 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1769 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1770 small and strange formats.
1772 * New MOD audio demux.
1773 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1774 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1775 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1776 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1779 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1780 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1781 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1787 * New opengl video output plugin.
1790 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1791 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1794 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1795 --------------------------------
1798 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1799 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1800 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1801 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1802 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1803 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1804 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1805 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1808 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1813 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1814 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1815 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1816 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1817 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1818 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1819 * Better Icecast support.
1820 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1821 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1824 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1825 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1826 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1827 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1828 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1829 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1830 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1833 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1834 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1835 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1836 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1837 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1838 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1839 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1840 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1841 * Preliminary RTP support.
1842 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1847 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1848 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1850 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1851 - Improvements and help in preferences
1852 - New streaming wizard
1853 - Revised Disc Open menu
1855 - Improvements of the standard pages
1856 - Support for new commands
1857 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1860 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1861 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1864 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1865 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1866 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1867 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1868 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1869 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1870 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1871 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1872 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1875 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1877 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1878 * Support for Panther.
1879 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1880 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1883 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1884 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1885 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1886 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1887 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1888 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1889 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1890 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1893 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1894 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1895 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1898 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1901 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1902 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1903 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1904 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1907 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1908 --------------------------------
1911 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1914 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1915 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1918 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1919 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1922 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1925 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1926 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1929 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1932 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1935 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1936 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1940 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1941 --------------------------------
1944 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1945 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1949 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1950 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1951 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1953 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1954 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1957 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1960 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1963 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1964 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1968 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1969 --------------------------------
1972 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1973 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1977 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1978 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1979 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1980 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1981 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1984 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1985 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1986 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1989 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1990 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1991 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1994 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1995 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1996 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1997 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1998 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2001 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2002 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2003 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2006 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2009 * Improved build system.
2010 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2011 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2012 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2013 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2016 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2017 --------------------------------
2020 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2023 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2024 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2025 * Video 4 Linux support
2026 * CD Digital Audio support
2027 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2030 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2031 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2032 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2033 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2036 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2037 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2038 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2039 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2040 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2041 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2042 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2045 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2046 * New HTTP remote control interface
2049 * 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.
2050 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2051 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2052 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2055 * New reset option for the preferences
2056 * You can set your language in the prefences
2057 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2058 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2059 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2060 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2063 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2064 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2065 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2068 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2069 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2070 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2071 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2072 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2073 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2074 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2075 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2076 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2077 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2080 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2081 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2082 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2083 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2084 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2085 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2086 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2089 * Interface localization
2090 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2091 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2092 * New full-featured Preferences window
2095 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2096 --------------------------------
2099 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2100 * support for skins at the interface level
2101 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2102 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2103 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2104 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2105 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2108 * fixed HTTP redirects
2109 * support for opening an entire directory
2110 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2111 * new video4linux access plug-in
2112 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2115 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2116 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2117 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2120 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2121 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2122 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2123 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2124 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2125 * new codec for raw I420 video
2126 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2129 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2130 (although it still misses some important features)
2131 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2134 * new HTTP output support
2135 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2136 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2139 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2142 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2145 * reorderable playlist
2146 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2147 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2148 * support for mono audio output devices
2149 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2150 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2151 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2152 * the messages window remembers more lines
2153 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2154 * http and ogg stream output options
2155 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2158 * new skinnable interface
2159 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2161 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2162 * support for FLAC audio format
2163 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2165 * network tab in the interface
2166 * "apply" handling in preferences
2169 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2170 ---------------------------------
2173 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2174 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2175 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2176 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2178 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2179 * DTS S/PDIF support
2182 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2183 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2184 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2185 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2188 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2189 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2192 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2195 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2198 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2200 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2201 * rc interface is now fully useable
2202 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2205 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2206 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2207 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2208 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2209 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2211 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2212 * support for mouse gestures
2213 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2216 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2217 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2220 * improved ID3 tag detection
2221 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2222 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2223 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2225 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2228 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2229 ---------------------------------
2232 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2233 English was set as the preferred language
2236 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2237 --------------------------------
2240 * new mouse gesture interface
2241 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2245 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2246 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2247 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2250 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2251 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2255 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2258 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2259 without the user consent
2262 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2264 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2265 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2266 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2269 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2270 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2271 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2272 * playlist enhancements
2273 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2274 * new step forward/step backward commands
2275 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2276 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2277 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2280 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2281 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2282 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2285 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2286 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2289 * native video output is working again
2290 * only commandline interface support
2291 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2294 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2295 --------------------------------
2298 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2299 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2300 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2301 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2302 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2303 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2304 and A/52 streams are supported)
2305 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2310 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2311 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2312 * VCD entry points support
2313 * VCD image file support
2316 * support for *.asf format
2317 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2318 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2319 * support for ogg encapsulation
2320 * support for raw DV format
2321 * support for *.wav format
2322 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2325 Stream discovery & playlists:
2326 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2327 * support for .m3u file format
2328 * support for .asx file format
2329 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2332 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2333 (only available with the .avi demux)
2334 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2335 * support for raw PCM data
2336 * support for Cinepak video codec
2337 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2338 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2339 * support for Xvid codec
2340 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2341 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2342 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2344 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2346 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2349 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2352 * new WxWindows interface
2353 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2354 device and the channels configuration
2355 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2356 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2357 format that VLC can play
2358 * new swedish translation
2359 * enhancements of the playlist window
2360 * new messages window to see debug info
2361 * fixed a few crashes
2364 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2365 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2366 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2367 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working