1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
8 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
11 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
12 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
13 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
14 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation
15 * Digital Cinema Package support
18 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
19 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
20 * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1
21 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
22 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
23 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
24 * OpenMax IL imrpovements, notably for RaspberryPi
25 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
26 * New jpeg image decoder
29 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
30 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
31 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
34 * New CAF format module
35 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking
36 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking
37 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
38 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
41 * Basic support for WebVTT
42 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio stream type in TS
43 * Support HDPR TS files
44 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
45 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
48 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
49 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
53 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
54 * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
55 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
56 * New Android native window provider module
59 * New Oldmovie effect filter
60 * New VHS effect filter
61 * New Freeze effect filter
62 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
63 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
66 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
69 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
70 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
71 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
72 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
73 * GSM, VP8, Opus RTP packetization
74 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
77 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
80 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
83 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
86 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
89 * ios video output: use ios2
90 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
93 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
94 --------------------------------
97 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
99 * Fix some subtitles track selection
102 * VP9 support in WebM
103 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
104 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
107 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
108 * Support Speex in ogg files
109 * Fix some .mov playlists support
110 * Support Alac in mkv
111 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
112 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
115 * Fix DVB options parsing
116 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
117 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
120 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
121 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
124 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
125 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
128 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
129 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
130 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
131 * Fix play after drag'n drop
132 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
135 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
136 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
139 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
140 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
143 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
144 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
145 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
146 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
147 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
148 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
149 * Improves interface resizings
152 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
153 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
154 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
155 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
156 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
160 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
161 --------------------------------
164 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
165 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
166 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
167 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
168 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
170 3rd party libraries (contrib):
171 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
174 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
175 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
176 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
177 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
178 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
181 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
182 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
186 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
187 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
188 * Support for Ulead DV audio
189 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
190 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
191 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
192 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
193 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
194 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
195 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
196 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
197 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
198 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
201 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
202 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
203 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
206 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
207 remove support for previous OS X releases
208 * Major improvements in DASH support
209 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
210 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
211 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
212 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
213 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
214 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
215 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
216 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
217 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
218 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
219 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
222 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
223 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
224 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
225 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
226 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
227 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
228 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
229 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
230 * Support for more MJPEG streams
231 * Add support for liveleak streams
232 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
233 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
234 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
237 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
238 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
239 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
240 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
241 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
242 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
243 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
244 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
245 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
246 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
247 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
250 * New remapping channel filter
251 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
252 * New VSXu visualization plugin
253 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
254 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
255 * New gain audio filter
258 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
259 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
260 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
261 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
262 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
263 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
264 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
265 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
266 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
269 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
270 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
271 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
272 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
273 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
274 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
275 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
278 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
279 * Options support for AVIO output module
280 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
281 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
282 * Livehttp stream encryption support
283 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
284 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
287 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
290 * configurable password for the HTTP server
291 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
292 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
293 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
294 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
295 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
296 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
297 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
301 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
304 * Add support for multiple video outputs
305 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
307 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
308 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
309 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
310 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
311 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
312 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
313 VLC's internal volume level
314 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
316 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
317 selection and to manage the list of presets
318 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
319 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
320 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
321 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
322 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
323 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
324 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
325 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
326 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
327 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
329 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
330 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
331 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
332 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
333 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
334 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
335 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
336 3rd party applications
337 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
338 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
339 (system-wide settings)
340 * Add support for the Video Title option
341 * Add support for the Boss Key
342 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
343 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
346 * Partial support for Qt5.0
347 * Menus modifications and improvements
348 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
349 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
350 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
351 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
352 * EPG display fixes and improvements
353 * Add SD pixmap sources
354 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
355 * Display playlist total duration
356 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
357 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
358 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
363 * Extend sliders, offsets options
364 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
365 * Numerous fixes and improvements
366 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
369 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
370 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
371 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
372 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
373 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
374 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
375 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
376 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
377 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
378 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
381 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
382 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
383 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
384 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
385 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
386 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
388 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
389 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
390 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
391 * Broken crop video filter
393 * OSD parser and menu
394 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
395 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
396 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
397 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
401 * Update of all translations
404 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
405 --------------------------------
408 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
409 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
412 * Fix modplug security issues
415 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
416 --------------------------------
420 * Fix crash in QTsound
421 * Fix screen mouse file location
422 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
425 * Fix use after free in sgimb
426 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
429 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
432 * Fix interface crashes
433 * Fix autostart playback option
434 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
437 * update Welsh translation
438 * New Kannada translation
441 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
442 --------------------------------
445 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
446 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
450 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
453 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
456 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
459 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
463 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
466 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
469 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
470 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
471 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
474 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
475 --------------------------------
478 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
481 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
484 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
485 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
486 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
487 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
488 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
489 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
492 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
493 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
494 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
495 * 3rd party codecs updates
498 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
499 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
500 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
501 in the advanced preferences panel
502 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
503 * Fix crash within the video output code
504 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
505 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
506 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
507 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
509 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
512 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
515 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
516 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
519 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
522 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
523 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
524 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
525 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
526 Dutch, Danish, translations
527 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
530 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
531 --------------------------------
534 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
537 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
538 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
539 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
542 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
543 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
544 * Fix koreus lua parser
545 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
546 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
547 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
548 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
551 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
552 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
555 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
558 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
559 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
560 * Fix Time counter UI look
561 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
564 * Fix https streaming
567 * Fix audio and video track selection:
568 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
569 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
572 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
573 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
574 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
575 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
576 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
579 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
580 --------------------------------
583 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
584 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
585 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
586 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
587 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
588 during playback on Mac OS X
591 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
592 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
593 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
596 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
597 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
598 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
599 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
600 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
603 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
604 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
605 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
606 * Support Youtube live streams
609 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
612 * Fix media info dialog update
613 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
614 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
615 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
616 * Fix album art display at start
619 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
620 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
621 * Fix menus display and behavior
622 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
623 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
624 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
625 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
626 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
627 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
628 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
631 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
632 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
633 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
634 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
635 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
636 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
637 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
638 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
639 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
642 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
643 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
644 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
645 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
646 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
649 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
650 --------------------------------
653 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
656 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
657 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
660 * Add GateKeeper support
661 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
662 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
663 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
666 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
669 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
670 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
671 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
672 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
673 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
676 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
677 --------------------------------
680 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
681 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
682 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
683 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
684 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
685 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
686 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
687 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
688 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
689 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
690 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
694 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
695 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
696 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
697 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
698 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
699 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
700 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
701 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
702 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
703 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
704 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
705 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
708 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
709 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
711 * Fix MP3 free format support
714 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
715 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
716 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
717 * Fix for DVB channels file support
718 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
721 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
722 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
724 Audio filters and output:
725 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
726 * Fix DirectSound device selection
727 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
728 * Do not apply volume in file output
729 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
730 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
733 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
734 the persistant media library
735 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
736 to the media library or the temporary playlist
737 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
738 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
739 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
740 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
741 press on the Play/Pause button
742 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
743 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
744 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
745 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
746 * Many Fullscreen fixes
747 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
748 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
749 Synchronization panel
750 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
751 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
752 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
753 * Fix crashes on exit
754 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
756 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
757 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
758 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
759 automatically reset on the first launch.
760 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
761 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
762 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
765 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
766 * Fixes for icecast SD
769 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
770 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
771 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
772 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
773 * Fix tags and file names display
774 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
777 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
778 * Fix for key events and focus loss
781 * Fix display of some buttons
782 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
783 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
786 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
787 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
788 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
791 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
792 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
793 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
794 Thai translations update
795 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
798 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
799 --------------------------------
802 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
803 * fix the samba module compilation
804 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
805 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
806 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
807 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
810 * Support for MXPEG files
811 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
812 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
815 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
816 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
817 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
820 * Fix ogm header creation
823 * limit spatializer filter distortions
824 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
827 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
828 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
829 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
830 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
833 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
836 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
837 * allow to hide the sidebar
838 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
839 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
840 * noticebly faster launch time
841 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
842 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
843 * improve track synchronization panel
844 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
845 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
848 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
849 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
850 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
851 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
854 * fix for menus display
855 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
856 * documentation update
859 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
860 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
863 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
864 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
865 * Update Jamendo selections
869 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
870 * fix a crash on VLM close
873 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
874 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
875 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
876 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
879 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
882 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
883 ---------------------------------
886 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
887 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
888 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
889 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
890 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
891 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
892 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
893 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
894 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
895 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
896 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
897 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
898 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
899 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
900 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
901 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
902 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
903 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
904 --http-crl (optional CRL).
905 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
906 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
907 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
908 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
909 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
910 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
911 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
913 Important changes for packagers:
914 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
915 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
916 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
917 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
918 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
919 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
920 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
921 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
922 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
923 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
926 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
927 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
928 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
929 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
930 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
931 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
932 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
935 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
936 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
937 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
938 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
939 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
940 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
941 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
942 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
943 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
944 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
945 * PulseAudio audio input support
946 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
947 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
948 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
949 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
950 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
951 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
952 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
953 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
956 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
957 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
958 are notably concerned.
959 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
960 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
961 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
962 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
963 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
964 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
965 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
966 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
967 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
968 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
969 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
970 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
971 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
972 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
973 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
976 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
977 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
978 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
979 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
980 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
981 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
982 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
983 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
984 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
985 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
986 * Improved support of tracker files
987 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
990 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
991 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
992 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
993 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
994 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
995 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
996 and important cleanups and optimisations
997 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
998 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
999 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1000 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1001 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1002 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1003 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1004 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1005 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1006 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1007 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1008 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1009 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1010 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1011 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1012 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1013 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1014 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1015 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1016 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1017 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1020 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1021 * New video output for iOS platform
1022 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1023 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1024 * Various vmem improvements
1025 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1026 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1027 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1028 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1029 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1030 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1032 Audio Output and Filters:
1033 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1034 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1035 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1036 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1037 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1038 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1039 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1040 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1041 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1042 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1045 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1046 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1047 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1048 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1049 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1050 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1051 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1052 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1053 * New anti-flickering filter
1054 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1055 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1056 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1057 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1058 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1059 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1060 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1063 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1064 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1065 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1066 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1067 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1068 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1069 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1070 * Major rework of VoD support
1071 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1072 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1073 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1074 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1075 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1076 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1077 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1078 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1079 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1080 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1083 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1084 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1087 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1088 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1089 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1090 list of available audio and video filters
1091 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1092 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1093 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1096 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1097 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1098 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1099 * id3tag: use taglib
1100 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1101 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1102 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1103 * removal of the noise filter
1104 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1105 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1106 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1107 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1110 * Update of translations for most languages.
1111 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1114 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1115 ----------------------------------
1118 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1119 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1122 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1123 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1126 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1127 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1128 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1131 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1134 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1135 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1138 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1141 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1142 ----------------------------------
1145 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1146 including support for OS X Lion
1147 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1148 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1151 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1154 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1155 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1156 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1159 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1162 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1163 ----------------------------------
1166 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1167 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1170 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1171 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1172 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1173 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1174 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1176 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1177 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1178 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1180 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1181 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1184 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1187 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1190 * Fix quitting on Linux
1191 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1195 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1198 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1201 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1202 ---------------------------------
1204 Windows and Mac OS X:
1205 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1208 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1209 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1212 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1215 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1218 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1220 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1221 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1223 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1224 * RTP output and XML export
1225 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1229 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1230 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1231 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1232 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1235 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1236 --------------------------------
1238 Windows and Mac OS X:
1239 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1242 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1245 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1246 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1247 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1248 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1249 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1250 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1253 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1254 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1258 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1259 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1260 * New Luganda Translation
1263 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1264 --------------------------------
1267 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1270 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1271 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1272 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1273 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1276 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1278 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1279 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1280 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1281 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1282 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1283 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1284 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1285 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1287 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1288 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1289 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1290 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1291 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1292 * Configure and build system improvements
1293 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1296 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1297 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1298 * New icelandic translation
1301 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1302 --------------------------------
1305 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1306 #234484 and #260719.
1309 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1310 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1311 and stability reasons
1314 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1318 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1321 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1322 ----------------------------------
1325 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1328 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1329 ---------------------------------
1332 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1333 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1334 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1335 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1338 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1341 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1342 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1343 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1344 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1347 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1348 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1349 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1351 Subtitles and renderer:
1352 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1353 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1354 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1355 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1356 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1359 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1360 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1361 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1362 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1365 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1366 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1368 Miscellaneous fixes:
1369 * KDE device solid actions
1371 * Transcode integer overflow
1372 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1373 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1376 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1377 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1378 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1381 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1382 ----------------------------------
1385 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1389 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1392 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1395 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1396 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1397 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1398 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1401 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1405 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1408 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1411 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1412 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1414 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1418 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1419 * Miscellaneous fixes
1422 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1423 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1424 French and Ukrainian
1425 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1426 * New Asturian translation
1429 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1430 ----------------------------------
1433 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1435 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1438 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1441 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1442 * Various fixes for Windows
1445 * New Armenian translation
1446 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1447 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1450 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1451 --------------------------------
1454 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1455 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1456 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1459 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1460 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1463 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1464 --------------------------------
1466 Access and demuxers:
1467 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1468 * fix for podcasts parsing
1469 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1472 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1473 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1476 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1477 * fix m3u playlists exports
1480 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1483 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1486 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1489 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1492 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1495 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1496 --------------------------------
1499 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1500 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1503 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1504 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1507 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1508 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1509 * fix console output encoding
1511 Interface and extensions:
1512 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1513 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1516 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1517 --------------------------------
1520 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1521 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1522 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1523 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1524 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1525 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1526 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1527 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1528 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1529 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1530 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1531 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1532 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1533 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1534 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1535 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1539 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1540 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1541 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1542 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1543 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1546 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1549 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1550 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1551 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1555 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1558 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1559 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1560 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1563 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1564 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1565 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1566 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1569 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1570 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1573 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1574 --------------------------------
1576 Important changes for users:
1577 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1578 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1580 Important changes for packagers:
1581 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1582 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1583 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1584 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1585 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1587 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1589 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1590 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1591 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1592 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1593 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1596 * Support for the sftp protocol
1597 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1598 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1599 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1600 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1601 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1604 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1605 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1606 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1608 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1609 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1610 * Invmem module improvements
1611 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1612 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1613 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1614 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1615 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1616 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1617 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1618 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1619 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1620 * Support for VP8 codec
1621 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1624 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1625 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1626 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1627 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1628 * Various EGP improvements
1629 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1630 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1633 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1634 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1635 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1636 * Podcast images are now displayed
1639 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1640 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1641 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1642 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1643 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1644 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1645 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1646 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1647 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1648 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1649 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1652 * New content extensions lua framework
1655 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1656 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1657 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1658 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1659 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1660 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1661 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1664 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1665 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1666 * Service discovery based on libudev
1667 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1670 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1671 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1672 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1673 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1674 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1675 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1676 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1679 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1680 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1681 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1684 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1686 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1687 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1690 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1693 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1694 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1695 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1696 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1697 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1698 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1699 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1702 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1703 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1706 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1707 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1708 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1712 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1713 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1714 * Improved Solaris port
1717 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1718 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1721 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1722 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1723 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1724 * transrate: broken since too long
1725 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1726 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1727 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1728 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1729 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1730 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1731 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1732 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1733 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1734 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1735 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1736 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1737 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1738 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1741 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1742 --------------------------------
1745 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1747 Decoders/Packetizers:
1748 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1751 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1752 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1753 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1754 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1755 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1758 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1759 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1762 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1763 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1766 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1767 and Walloon translations updated
1768 * Sinhala translation started
1771 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1772 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1775 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1776 --------------------------------
1779 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1780 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1783 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1786 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1787 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1790 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1791 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1792 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1793 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1796 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1797 --------------------------------
1800 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1801 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1804 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1805 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1808 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1809 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1812 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1815 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1816 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1819 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1820 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1823 * New Walloon translation
1824 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1827 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1828 --------------------------------
1831 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1832 regressions in most popular drivers
1833 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1836 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1837 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1838 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1841 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1842 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1845 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1846 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1847 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1848 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1849 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1852 * New udev module for linux
1855 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1858 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1861 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1862 --------------------------------
1865 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1866 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1867 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1870 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1871 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1874 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1875 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1878 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1881 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1882 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1883 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1884 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1887 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1888 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1889 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1890 - no support for Goom and SDL
1891 - limited text rendering support
1892 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1895 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1896 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1897 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1898 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1899 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1900 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1901 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1902 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1903 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1907 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1910 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1913 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1914 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1915 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1916 Arabic and French translation updates
1919 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1920 --------------------------------
1923 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1924 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1925 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1926 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1927 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1928 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1931 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1932 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1933 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1936 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1937 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1938 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1941 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1944 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1945 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1948 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1949 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1950 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1951 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1952 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1953 * Fix various crashes
1956 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1958 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1962 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1963 ---------------------------------
1967 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1968 See 'Access:' for more info.
1969 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1972 * Instantaneous pausing
1973 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1974 * Finer speed control
1975 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1976 * Timeshift for most medias
1977 * RTSP trickplay support
1978 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1981 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1982 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1983 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1984 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1985 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1986 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1987 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1988 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1989 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1990 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1993 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1994 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1995 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1996 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1997 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1998 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1999 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2002 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2003 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2006 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2007 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2008 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2009 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2010 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2011 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2012 * DVB scanning on linux
2013 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2014 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2015 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2016 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2017 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2018 * MTP device access on Unix
2019 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2020 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2023 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2024 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2025 Windows and Mac OS X.
2028 * Export the playlist in HTML
2029 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2030 * Better metadata handling and reading
2032 Linux/Windows interface:
2033 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2034 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2035 * Recently played items list
2036 * Interface toolbar customizations
2037 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2038 - More menus actions
2039 - Finer speed slider
2040 - Improvements on many dialogs
2041 - New dialog for plugins listing
2042 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2043 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2044 * Better integration in GTK environments
2047 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2048 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2049 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2050 * Additional usability improvements
2053 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2054 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2055 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2056 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2057 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2060 * New Maemo port with:
2061 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2062 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2065 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2068 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2069 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2070 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2071 * Support for latest iSight models
2074 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2075 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2078 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2079 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2080 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2081 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2082 The old image video output has been removed.
2083 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2084 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2087 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2095 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2096 --------------------------------------
2102 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2103 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2104 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2105 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2106 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2107 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2108 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2110 Various fixes to the following modules:
2113 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2114 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2115 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2117 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2122 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2123 ---------------------------------
2126 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2127 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2130 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2131 ---------------------------------
2134 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2137 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2140 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2141 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2142 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2143 main controller window.
2144 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2147 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2152 * Updates of other localizations
2155 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2156 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2157 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2158 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2159 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2162 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2163 ---------------------------------
2166 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2168 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2171 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2172 --------------------------------
2177 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2178 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2181 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2182 --------------------------------
2184 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2185 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2188 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2191 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2192 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2195 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2196 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2199 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2200 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2201 * Various fixed in playlist
2204 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2207 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2210 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2211 ------------------------------------
2213 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2214 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2217 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2218 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2219 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2222 * Stability fix for the video output.
2225 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2226 --------------------------------
2229 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2230 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2231 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2232 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2233 * Fixed update system bugs
2234 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2237 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2238 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2239 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2240 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2241 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2242 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2243 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2244 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2245 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2246 modern Mac OS X versions
2249 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2250 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2252 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2253 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2256 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2257 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2258 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2259 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2260 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2261 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2264 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2265 --------------------------------
2267 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2268 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2269 * Multiple bugfixes.
2272 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2273 --------------------------------
2275 * Multiple bug fixes.
2278 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2279 ---------------------------------
2283 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2284 recent to work correctly
2285 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2286 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2287 edit the ".hosts" file.
2288 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2289 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2290 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2291 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2292 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2293 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2294 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2295 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2296 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2297 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2298 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2299 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2300 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2301 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2302 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2303 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2304 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2305 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2306 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2307 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2308 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2309 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2310 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2311 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2312 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2313 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2314 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2315 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2316 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2317 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2318 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2319 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2320 and postproc modules.
2321 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2322 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2323 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2324 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2326 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2327 filter. For example:
2328 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2329 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2331 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2332 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2338 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2340 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2341 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2344 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2345 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2347 * Shoutcast TV listings
2348 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2350 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2351 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2353 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2356 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2357 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2358 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2359 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2360 * JACK audio input support
2361 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2362 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2363 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2364 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2365 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2366 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2367 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2368 (available as a separate download).
2369 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2370 * RTMP input support
2371 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2372 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2373 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2375 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2376 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2379 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2380 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2381 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2382 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2384 * APEv1/2 tags support
2385 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2386 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2388 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2389 * TiVo Series 2 support
2390 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2395 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2396 * Flash Screen Video support
2397 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2398 * DosBox Capture support
2399 * Karl Morton's Video support
2400 * limited atrac3 support
2402 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2403 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2404 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2405 * H.264 PAFF support
2406 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2407 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2408 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2409 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2410 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2413 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2414 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2415 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2416 * AQTitle subtitles support
2417 * MKV USF subtitles support
2418 * HTML-based subtitles support
2419 * MPSub subtitles support
2420 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2421 * MPL2 subtitles support
2422 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2423 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2424 * Realtext subtitle support
2425 * DKS subtitle support
2426 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2427 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2430 * Flash Screen Video support
2431 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2433 Video outputs and filters:
2434 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2435 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2436 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2437 * New puzzle video output filter
2438 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2439 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2441 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2442 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2443 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2444 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2445 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2446 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2447 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2448 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2449 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2450 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2451 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2452 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2453 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2454 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2456 Audio outputs and filters:
2457 * Replay gain support
2458 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2459 new scaletempo audio filter)
2460 * New spatializer audio filter
2461 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2464 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2465 * New RTP payload formats:
2466 * Speex voice audio codec
2467 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2468 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2469 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2470 * DCCP transport for RTP
2471 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2476 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2477 end-user suitable way.
2478 * Improved user interaction
2479 * Improved mouse gestures
2480 * Vastly improved Update checker
2481 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2483 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2484 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2486 * Improved video output features
2487 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2488 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2489 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2490 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2491 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2493 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2494 if libncursesw is available.
2495 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2496 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2497 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2499 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2500 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2501 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2502 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2503 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2504 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2505 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2506 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2509 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2510 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2511 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2514 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2515 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2516 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2517 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2518 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2519 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2522 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2523 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2533 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2534 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2535 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2538 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2539 ----------------------------------
2542 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2545 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2546 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2547 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2548 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2549 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2550 * Updated Polish translation
2553 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2554 ----------------------------------
2557 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2558 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2559 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2562 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2563 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2564 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2565 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2566 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2567 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2568 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2569 to an unexpected application termination
2570 * New Serbian translation
2571 * Updated Romanian translation
2574 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2575 ----------------------------------
2578 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2579 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2580 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2581 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2582 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2583 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2584 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2585 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2588 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2589 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2590 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2591 * Fixed AAC resampling
2592 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2593 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2596 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2597 ----------------------------------
2600 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2601 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2602 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2603 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2604 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2607 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2608 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2609 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2610 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2611 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2614 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2615 ----------------------------------
2618 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2619 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2622 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2623 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2624 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2625 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2627 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2631 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2634 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2637 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2640 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2643 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2644 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2645 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2646 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2647 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2649 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2650 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2651 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2652 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2655 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2658 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2659 ----------------------------------
2662 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2663 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2664 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2666 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2667 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2669 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2670 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2673 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2675 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2676 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2677 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2678 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2679 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2680 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2681 two different movies
2682 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2683 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2684 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2687 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2690 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2691 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2692 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2693 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2696 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2697 ----------------------------------
2699 Various bugfixes, notably:
2700 * Windows Vista compatibility
2701 * Cropping in Direct3D
2702 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2703 * RSS filter string overflow
2705 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2707 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2708 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2711 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2712 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2715 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2718 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2721 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2724 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2725 ----------------------------------
2727 Various bugfixes, notably:
2728 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2729 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2730 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2731 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2732 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2733 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2736 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2737 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2740 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2742 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2743 * Diverse usability improvements
2744 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2745 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2746 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2749 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2750 ---------------------------------
2752 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2753 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2756 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2759 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2760 --------------------------------
2763 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2766 * Support for RTSP authentication
2767 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2768 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2769 * ATSC support for DVB input
2770 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2771 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2772 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2775 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2776 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2777 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2778 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2779 * Matroska WavPack support
2780 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2781 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2782 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2785 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2786 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2787 * Improved libcaca support
2791 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2792 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2794 * Systray support in skins
2796 * Support for Apple Remote control
2797 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2798 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2799 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2800 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2802 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2805 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2806 Windows 9x/ME users:
2807 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2808 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2809 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2810 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2811 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2813 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2814 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2823 * Updates to the libvlc API
2824 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2827 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2828 --------------------------------
2831 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2832 * Support for downloading updates
2836 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2837 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2838 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2839 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2841 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2842 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2843 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2846 * Cook (Real audio) support
2848 Playlist / Services discovery:
2849 * XSPF playlist support
2851 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2854 * New JACK audio output
2857 * New video filters:
2858 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2859 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2860 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2861 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2862 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2863 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2866 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2869 * System to inform the user and request information
2870 - HTTP authentication
2874 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2875 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2876 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2879 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2880 - Improved playlist handling
2881 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2883 - Embedded Video output
2884 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2885 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2886 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2887 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2888 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2890 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2891 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2894 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2897 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2898 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2899 * Growl "Now playing" support
2902 * Ability to log to syslog
2903 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2906 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2908 * A bit more automatic testing
2911 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2912 ---------------------------------
2915 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2916 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2919 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2920 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2923 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2926 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2927 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2933 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2936 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2937 --------------------------------
2940 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2944 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2945 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2946 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2949 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2950 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2951 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2952 * GnomeVFS input module
2953 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2954 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2957 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2958 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2959 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2962 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2963 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2969 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2970 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2973 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2974 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2975 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2978 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2980 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2981 - New extended controls panel
2982 - New bookmarks window
2983 - Fixed playlist sorting
2984 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2986 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2987 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2988 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2989 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2993 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2994 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2996 - Include macro to include other files
3000 * Should now work outside IE as well
3003 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3006 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3007 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3010 The following languages were added:
3014 * Simplified Chinese
3015 The following languages were re-added:
3019 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3020 --------------------------------
3023 * Rewrite of the playlist
3025 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3026 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3027 * Preferences improvements:
3028 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3029 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3031 * Core image manipulation support
3032 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3033 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3034 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3035 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3036 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3037 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3038 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3039 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3040 * Access filter architecture
3041 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3042 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3046 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3047 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3048 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3049 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3050 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3051 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3052 * Massive Matroska improvements
3053 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3055 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3056 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3057 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3058 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3059 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3061 Decoders / Encoders:
3062 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3063 * PNG decoder/encoder
3064 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3065 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3068 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3071 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3072 * Brand new SAP module
3073 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3074 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3075 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3076 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3077 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3078 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3082 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3085 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3086 * Image file video output (png)
3087 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3088 * Improvements to wall video filter
3089 * Support for font color and opacity
3095 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3096 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3097 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3101 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3102 - Improved preferences
3103 - Improvements to the wizard
3104 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3106 - Redesigned playlist
3107 - Improved preferences
3109 - Support for multiple actions
3112 - Support for the new playlist system
3114 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3117 * Screensaver disabling fix
3118 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3119 * Support for no-decoration windows
3122 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3123 * The OpenGL video output is back
3124 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3125 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3126 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3127 is not yet available in the new module
3128 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3131 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3140 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3143 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3146 The following languages were added:
3152 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3153 --------------------------------
3156 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3157 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3160 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3161 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3162 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3165 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3168 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3171 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3174 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3175 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3176 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3180 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3182 * Support of playlist group announcement
3185 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3186 --------------------------------
3189 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3190 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3191 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3192 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3193 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3194 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3197 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3198 (Stream your desktop)
3199 * Improved DVD support:
3200 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3201 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3202 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3203 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3204 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3205 (selection of titles/chapters).
3208 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3209 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3210 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3211 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3212 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3213 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3214 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3215 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3216 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3217 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3220 * G.726 audio support
3221 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3222 * MPEG-4 text support
3223 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3224 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3225 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3229 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3230 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3231 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3232 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3233 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3234 * DVB subtitles encoder
3235 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3236 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3238 * Text track muxing for mp4
3239 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3240 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3241 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3242 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3243 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3244 * Improved ASF muxer
3246 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3247 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3248 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3251 * New audio equalizer filter
3252 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3253 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3254 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3255 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3258 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3259 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3260 with support for effects.
3261 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3262 - New filters can be streamed.
3263 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3264 - Centralized scaling and blending
3266 - "time", to display current time
3267 - "marq", to display a marquee
3270 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3271 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3272 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3273 * A few skins2 improvements
3274 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3275 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3276 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3277 * Improved CORBA control module
3280 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3281 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3282 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3285 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3286 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3287 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3290 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3291 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3292 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3293 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3294 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3297 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3300 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3301 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3304 * Server/client network synchronization module
3305 * VBrick streams fully supported
3306 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3310 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3311 --------------------------------
3314 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3315 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3316 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3317 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3320 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3321 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3322 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3323 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3324 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3325 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3326 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3329 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3330 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3331 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3332 * Improved directory access module.
3333 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3334 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3335 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3336 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3337 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3340 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3341 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3342 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3345 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3346 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3347 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3350 * Improved session announcement system.
3351 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3352 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3353 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3354 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3355 * Improved transrater.
3356 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3357 * New configuration system.
3358 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3361 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3362 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3363 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3364 * Supports scheduling.
3365 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3366 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3369 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3370 - Ability to embed video output.
3371 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3372 - Lots of improvements.
3373 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3374 - New design and set of icons.
3375 - Ability to embed video output.
3376 - Support for hotkeys.
3377 - Support for bookmarks.
3379 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3380 - Better hotkeys handling.
3383 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3384 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3385 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3386 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3389 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3390 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3391 * Improved Windows installer.
3397 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3398 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3401 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3402 ---------------------------------
3405 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3406 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3409 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3410 --------------------------------
3413 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3414 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3417 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3418 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3419 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3420 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3423 * Internal improvments
3424 * Improved import/export
3427 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3429 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3430 small and strange formats.
3432 * New MOD audio demux.
3433 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3434 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3435 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3436 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3439 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3440 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3441 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3447 * New opengl video output plugin.
3450 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3451 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3454 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3455 --------------------------------
3458 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3459 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3460 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3461 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3462 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3463 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3464 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3465 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3468 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3473 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3474 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3475 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3476 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3477 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3478 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3479 * Better Icecast support.
3480 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3481 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3484 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3485 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3486 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3487 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3488 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3489 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3490 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3493 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3494 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3495 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3496 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3497 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3498 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3499 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3500 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3501 * Preliminary RTP support.
3502 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3507 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3508 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3510 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3511 - Improvements and help in preferences
3512 - New streaming wizard
3513 - Revised Disc Open menu
3515 - Improvements of the standard pages
3516 - Support for new commands
3517 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3520 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3521 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3524 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3525 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3526 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3527 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3528 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3529 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3530 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3531 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3532 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3535 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3537 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3538 * Support for Panther.
3539 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3540 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3543 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3544 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3545 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3546 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3547 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3548 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3549 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3550 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3553 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3554 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3555 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3558 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3561 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3562 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3563 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3564 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3567 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3568 --------------------------------
3571 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3574 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3575 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3578 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3579 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3582 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3585 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3586 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3589 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3592 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3595 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3596 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3600 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3601 --------------------------------
3604 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3605 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3609 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3610 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3611 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3613 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3614 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3617 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3620 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3623 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3624 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3628 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3629 --------------------------------
3632 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3633 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3637 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3638 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3639 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3640 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3641 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3644 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3645 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3646 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3649 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3650 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3651 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3654 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3655 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3656 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3657 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3658 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3661 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3662 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3663 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3666 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3669 * Improved build system.
3670 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3671 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3672 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3673 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3676 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3677 --------------------------------
3680 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3683 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3684 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3685 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3686 * Video 4 Linux support
3687 * CD Digital Audio support
3688 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3691 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3692 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3693 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3694 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3697 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3698 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3699 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3700 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3701 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3702 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3703 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3706 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3707 * New HTTP remote control interface
3710 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3711 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3712 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3713 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3714 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3717 * New reset option for the preferences
3718 * You can set your language in the prefences
3719 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3720 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3721 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3722 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3725 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3726 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3727 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3730 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3731 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3732 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3733 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3734 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3735 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3736 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3737 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3738 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3739 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3742 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3743 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3744 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3745 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3746 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3747 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3748 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3751 * Interface localization
3752 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3753 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3754 * New full-featured Preferences window
3757 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3758 --------------------------------
3761 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3762 * support for skins at the interface level
3763 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3764 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3765 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3766 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3767 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3770 * fixed HTTP redirects
3771 * support for opening an entire directory
3772 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3773 * new video4linux access plug-in
3774 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3777 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3778 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3779 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3782 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3783 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3784 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3785 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3786 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3787 * new codec for raw I420 video
3788 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3791 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3792 (although it still misses some important features)
3793 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3796 * new HTTP output support
3797 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3798 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3801 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3804 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3807 * reorderable playlist
3808 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3809 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3810 * support for mono audio output devices
3811 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3812 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3813 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3814 * the messages window remembers more lines
3815 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3816 * http and ogg stream output options
3817 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3820 * new skinnable interface
3821 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3823 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3824 * support for FLAC audio format
3825 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3827 * network tab in the interface
3828 * "apply" handling in preferences
3831 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3832 ---------------------------------
3835 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3836 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3837 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3838 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3840 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3841 * DTS S/PDIF support
3844 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3845 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3846 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3847 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3850 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3851 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3854 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3857 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3860 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3862 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3863 * rc interface is now fully useable
3864 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3867 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3868 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3869 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3870 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3871 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3873 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3874 * support for mouse gestures
3875 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3878 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3879 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3882 * improved ID3 tag detection
3883 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3884 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3885 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3887 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3890 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3891 ---------------------------------
3894 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3895 English was set as the preferred language
3898 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3899 --------------------------------
3902 * new mouse gesture interface
3903 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3907 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3908 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3909 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3912 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3913 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3917 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3920 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3921 without the user consent
3924 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3926 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3927 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3928 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3931 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3932 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3933 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3934 * playlist enhancements
3935 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3936 * new step forward/step backward commands
3937 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3938 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3939 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3942 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3943 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3944 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3947 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3948 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3951 * native video output is working again
3952 * only commandline interface support
3953 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3956 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3957 --------------------------------
3960 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3961 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3962 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3963 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3964 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3965 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3966 and A/52 streams are supported)
3967 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3972 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3973 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3974 * VCD entry points support
3975 * VCD image file support
3978 * support for *.asf format
3979 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3980 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3981 * support for ogg encapsulation
3982 * support for raw DV format
3983 * support for *.wav format
3984 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3987 Stream discovery & playlists:
3988 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3989 * support for .m3u file format
3990 * support for .asx file format
3991 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3994 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3995 (only available with the .avi demux)
3996 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3997 * support for raw PCM data
3998 * support for Cinepak video codec
3999 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4000 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4001 * support for Xvid codec
4002 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4003 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4004 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4006 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4008 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4011 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4014 * new WxWindows interface
4015 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4016 device and the channels configuration
4017 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4018 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4019 format that VLC can play
4020 * new swedish translation
4021 * enhancements of the playlist window
4022 * new messages window to see debug info
4023 * fixed a few crashes
4026 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4027 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4028 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4029 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working