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
46 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube files
49 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
50 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
54 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
55 * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
56 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
57 * New Android native window provider module
60 * New Oldmovie effect filter
61 * New VHS effect filter
62 * New Freeze effect filter
63 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
64 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
67 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
70 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
71 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
72 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
73 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
74 * GSM, VP8, Opus RTP packetization
75 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
78 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
81 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
84 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
87 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
90 * ios video output: use ios2
91 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
94 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
95 --------------------------------
98 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
100 * Fix some subtitles track selection
103 * VP9 support in WebM
104 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
105 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
108 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
109 * Support Speex in ogg files
110 * Fix some .mov playlists support
111 * Support Alac in mkv
112 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
113 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
116 * Fix DVB options parsing
117 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
118 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
121 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
122 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
125 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
126 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
129 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
130 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
131 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
132 * Fix play after drag'n drop
133 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
136 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
137 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
140 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
141 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
144 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
145 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
146 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
147 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
148 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
149 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
150 * Improves interface resizings
153 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
154 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
155 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
156 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
157 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
161 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
162 --------------------------------
165 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
166 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
167 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
168 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
169 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
171 3rd party libraries (contrib):
172 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
175 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
176 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
177 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
178 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
179 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
182 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
183 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
187 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
188 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
189 * Support for Ulead DV audio
190 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
191 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
192 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
193 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
194 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
195 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
196 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
197 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
198 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
199 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
202 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
203 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
204 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
207 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
208 remove support for previous OS X releases
209 * Major improvements in DASH support
210 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
211 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
212 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
213 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
214 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
215 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
216 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
217 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
218 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
219 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
220 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
223 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
224 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
225 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
226 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
227 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
228 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
229 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
230 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
231 * Support for more MJPEG streams
232 * Add support for liveleak streams
233 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
234 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
235 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
238 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
239 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
240 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
241 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
242 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
243 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
244 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
245 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
246 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
247 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
248 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
251 * New remapping channel filter
252 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
253 * New VSXu visualization plugin
254 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
255 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
256 * New gain audio filter
259 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
260 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
261 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
262 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
263 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
264 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
265 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
266 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
267 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
270 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
271 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
272 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
273 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
274 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
275 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
276 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
279 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
280 * Options support for AVIO output module
281 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
282 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
283 * Livehttp stream encryption support
284 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
285 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
288 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
291 * configurable password for the HTTP server
292 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
293 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
294 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
295 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
296 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
297 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
298 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
302 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
305 * Add support for multiple video outputs
306 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
308 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
309 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
310 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
311 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
312 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
313 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
314 VLC's internal volume level
315 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
317 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
318 selection and to manage the list of presets
319 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
320 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
321 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
322 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
323 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
324 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
325 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
326 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
327 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
328 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
330 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
331 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
332 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
333 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
334 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
335 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
336 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
337 3rd party applications
338 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
339 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
340 (system-wide settings)
341 * Add support for the Video Title option
342 * Add support for the Boss Key
343 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
344 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
347 * Partial support for Qt5.0
348 * Menus modifications and improvements
349 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
350 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
351 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
352 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
353 * EPG display fixes and improvements
354 * Add SD pixmap sources
355 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
356 * Display playlist total duration
357 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
358 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
359 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
364 * Extend sliders, offsets options
365 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
366 * Numerous fixes and improvements
367 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
370 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
371 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
372 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
373 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
374 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
375 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
376 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
377 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
378 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
379 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
382 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
383 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
384 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
385 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
386 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
387 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
389 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
390 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
391 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
392 * Broken crop video filter
394 * OSD parser and menu
395 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
396 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
397 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
398 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
402 * Update of all translations
405 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
406 --------------------------------
409 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
410 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
413 * Fix modplug security issues
416 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
417 --------------------------------
421 * Fix crash in QTsound
422 * Fix screen mouse file location
423 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
426 * Fix use after free in sgimb
427 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
430 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
433 * Fix interface crashes
434 * Fix autostart playback option
435 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
438 * update Welsh translation
439 * New Kannada translation
442 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
443 --------------------------------
446 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
447 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
451 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
454 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
457 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
460 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
464 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
467 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
470 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
471 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
472 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
475 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
476 --------------------------------
479 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
482 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
485 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
486 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
487 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
488 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
489 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
490 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
493 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
494 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
495 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
496 * 3rd party codecs updates
499 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
500 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
501 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
502 in the advanced preferences panel
503 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
504 * Fix crash within the video output code
505 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
506 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
507 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
508 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
510 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
513 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
516 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
517 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
520 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
523 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
524 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
525 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
526 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
527 Dutch, Danish, translations
528 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
531 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
532 --------------------------------
535 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
538 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
539 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
540 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
543 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
544 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
545 * Fix koreus lua parser
546 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
547 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
548 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
549 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
552 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
553 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
556 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
559 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
560 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
561 * Fix Time counter UI look
562 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
565 * Fix https streaming
568 * Fix audio and video track selection:
569 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
570 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
573 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
574 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
575 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
576 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
577 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
580 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
581 --------------------------------
584 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
585 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
586 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
587 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
588 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
589 during playback on Mac OS X
592 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
593 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
594 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
597 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
598 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
599 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
600 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
601 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
604 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
605 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
606 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
607 * Support Youtube live streams
610 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
613 * Fix media info dialog update
614 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
615 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
616 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
617 * Fix album art display at start
620 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
621 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
622 * Fix menus display and behavior
623 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
624 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
625 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
626 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
627 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
628 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
629 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
632 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
633 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
634 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
635 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
636 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
637 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
638 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
639 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
640 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
643 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
644 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
645 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
646 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
647 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
650 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
651 --------------------------------
654 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
657 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
658 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
661 * Add GateKeeper support
662 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
663 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
664 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
667 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
670 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
671 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
672 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
673 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
674 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
677 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
678 --------------------------------
681 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
682 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
683 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
684 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
685 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
686 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
687 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
688 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
689 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
690 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
691 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
695 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
696 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
697 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
698 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
699 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
700 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
701 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
702 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
703 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
704 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
705 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
706 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
709 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
710 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
712 * Fix MP3 free format support
715 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
716 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
717 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
718 * Fix for DVB channels file support
719 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
722 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
723 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
725 Audio filters and output:
726 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
727 * Fix DirectSound device selection
728 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
729 * Do not apply volume in file output
730 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
731 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
734 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
735 the persistant media library
736 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
737 to the media library or the temporary playlist
738 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
739 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
740 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
741 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
742 press on the Play/Pause button
743 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
744 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
745 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
746 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
747 * Many Fullscreen fixes
748 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
749 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
750 Synchronization panel
751 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
752 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
753 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
754 * Fix crashes on exit
755 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
757 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
758 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
759 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
760 automatically reset on the first launch.
761 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
762 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
763 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
766 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
767 * Fixes for icecast SD
770 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
771 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
772 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
773 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
774 * Fix tags and file names display
775 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
778 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
779 * Fix for key events and focus loss
782 * Fix display of some buttons
783 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
784 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
787 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
788 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
789 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
792 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
793 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
794 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
795 Thai translations update
796 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
799 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
800 --------------------------------
803 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
804 * fix the samba module compilation
805 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
806 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
807 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
808 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
811 * Support for MXPEG files
812 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
813 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
816 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
817 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
818 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
821 * Fix ogm header creation
824 * limit spatializer filter distortions
825 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
828 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
829 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
830 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
831 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
834 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
837 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
838 * allow to hide the sidebar
839 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
840 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
841 * noticebly faster launch time
842 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
843 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
844 * improve track synchronization panel
845 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
846 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
849 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
850 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
851 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
852 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
855 * fix for menus display
856 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
857 * documentation update
860 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
861 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
864 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
865 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
866 * Update Jamendo selections
870 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
871 * fix a crash on VLM close
874 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
875 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
876 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
877 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
880 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
883 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
884 ---------------------------------
887 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
888 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
889 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
890 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
891 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
892 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
893 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
894 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
895 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
896 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
897 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
898 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
899 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
900 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
901 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
902 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
903 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
904 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
905 --http-crl (optional CRL).
906 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
907 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
908 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
909 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
910 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
911 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
912 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
914 Important changes for packagers:
915 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
916 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
917 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
918 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
919 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
920 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
921 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
922 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
923 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
924 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
927 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
928 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
929 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
930 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
931 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
932 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
933 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
936 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
937 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
938 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
939 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
940 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
941 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
942 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
943 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
944 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
945 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
946 * PulseAudio audio input support
947 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
948 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
949 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
950 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
951 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
952 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
953 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
954 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
957 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
958 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
959 are notably concerned.
960 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
961 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
962 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
963 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
964 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
965 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
966 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
967 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
968 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
969 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
970 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
971 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
972 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
973 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
974 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
977 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
978 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
979 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
980 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
981 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
982 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
983 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
984 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
985 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
986 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
987 * Improved support of tracker files
988 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
991 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
992 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
993 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
994 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
995 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
996 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
997 and important cleanups and optimisations
998 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
999 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1000 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1001 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1002 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1003 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1004 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1005 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1006 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1007 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1008 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1009 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1010 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1011 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1012 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1013 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1014 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1015 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1016 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1017 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1018 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1021 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1022 * New video output for iOS platform
1023 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1024 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1025 * Various vmem improvements
1026 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1027 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1028 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1029 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1030 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1031 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1033 Audio Output and Filters:
1034 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1035 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1036 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1037 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1038 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1039 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1040 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1041 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1042 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1043 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1046 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1047 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1048 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1049 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1050 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1051 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1052 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1053 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1054 * New anti-flickering filter
1055 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1056 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1057 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1058 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1059 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1060 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1061 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1064 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1065 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1066 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1067 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1068 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1069 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1070 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1071 * Major rework of VoD support
1072 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1073 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1074 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1075 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1076 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1077 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1078 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1079 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1080 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1081 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1084 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1085 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1088 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1089 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1090 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1091 list of available audio and video filters
1092 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1093 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1094 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1097 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1098 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1099 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1100 * id3tag: use taglib
1101 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1102 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1103 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1104 * removal of the noise filter
1105 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1106 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1107 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1108 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1111 * Update of translations for most languages.
1112 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1115 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1116 ----------------------------------
1119 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1120 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1123 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1124 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1127 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1128 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1129 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1132 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1135 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1136 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1139 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1142 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1143 ----------------------------------
1146 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1147 including support for OS X Lion
1148 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1149 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1152 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1155 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1156 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1157 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1160 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1163 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1164 ----------------------------------
1167 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1168 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1171 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1172 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1173 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1174 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1175 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1177 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1178 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1179 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1181 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1182 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1185 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1188 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1191 * Fix quitting on Linux
1192 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1196 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1199 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1202 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1203 ---------------------------------
1205 Windows and Mac OS X:
1206 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1209 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1210 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1213 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1216 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1219 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1221 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1222 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1224 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1225 * RTP output and XML export
1226 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1230 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1231 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1232 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1233 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1236 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1237 --------------------------------
1239 Windows and Mac OS X:
1240 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1243 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1246 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1247 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1248 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1249 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1250 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1251 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1254 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1255 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1259 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1260 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1261 * New Luganda Translation
1264 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1265 --------------------------------
1268 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1271 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1272 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1273 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1274 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1277 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1279 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1280 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1281 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1282 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1283 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1284 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1285 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1286 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1288 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1289 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1290 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1291 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1292 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1293 * Configure and build system improvements
1294 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1297 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1298 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1299 * New icelandic translation
1302 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1303 --------------------------------
1306 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1307 #234484 and #260719.
1310 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1311 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1312 and stability reasons
1315 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1319 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1322 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1323 ----------------------------------
1326 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1329 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1330 ---------------------------------
1333 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1334 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1335 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1336 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1339 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1342 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1343 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1344 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1345 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1348 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1349 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1350 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1352 Subtitles and renderer:
1353 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1354 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1355 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1356 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1357 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1360 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1361 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1362 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1363 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1366 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1367 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1369 Miscellaneous fixes:
1370 * KDE device solid actions
1372 * Transcode integer overflow
1373 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1374 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1377 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1378 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1379 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1382 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1383 ----------------------------------
1386 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1390 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1393 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1396 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1397 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1398 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1399 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1402 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1406 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1409 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1412 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1413 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1415 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1419 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1420 * Miscellaneous fixes
1423 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1424 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1425 French and Ukrainian
1426 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1427 * New Asturian translation
1430 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1431 ----------------------------------
1434 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1436 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1439 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1442 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1443 * Various fixes for Windows
1446 * New Armenian translation
1447 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1448 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1451 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1452 --------------------------------
1455 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1456 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1457 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1460 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1461 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1464 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1465 --------------------------------
1467 Access and demuxers:
1468 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1469 * fix for podcasts parsing
1470 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1473 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1474 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1477 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1478 * fix m3u playlists exports
1481 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1484 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1487 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1490 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1493 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1496 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1497 --------------------------------
1500 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1501 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1504 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1505 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1508 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1509 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1510 * fix console output encoding
1512 Interface and extensions:
1513 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1514 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1517 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1518 --------------------------------
1521 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1522 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1523 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1524 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1525 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1526 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1527 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1528 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1529 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1530 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1531 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1532 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1533 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1534 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1535 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1536 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1540 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1541 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1542 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1543 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1544 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1547 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1550 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1551 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1552 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1556 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1559 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1560 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1561 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1564 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1565 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1566 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1567 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1570 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1571 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1574 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1575 --------------------------------
1577 Important changes for users:
1578 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1579 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1581 Important changes for packagers:
1582 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1583 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1584 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1585 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1586 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1588 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1590 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1591 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1592 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1593 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1594 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1597 * Support for the sftp protocol
1598 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1599 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1600 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1601 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1602 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1605 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1606 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1607 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1609 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1610 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1611 * Invmem module improvements
1612 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1613 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1614 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1615 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1616 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1617 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1618 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1619 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1620 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1621 * Support for VP8 codec
1622 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1625 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1626 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1627 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1628 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1629 * Various EGP improvements
1630 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1631 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1634 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1635 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1636 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1637 * Podcast images are now displayed
1640 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1641 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1642 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1643 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1644 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1645 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1646 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1647 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1648 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1649 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1650 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1653 * New content extensions lua framework
1656 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1657 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1658 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1659 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1660 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1661 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1662 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1665 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1666 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1667 * Service discovery based on libudev
1668 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1671 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1672 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1673 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1674 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1675 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1676 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1677 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1680 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1681 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1682 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1685 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1687 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1688 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1691 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1694 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1695 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1696 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1697 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1698 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1699 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1700 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1703 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1704 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1707 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1708 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1709 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1713 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1714 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1715 * Improved Solaris port
1718 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1719 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1722 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1723 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1724 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1725 * transrate: broken since too long
1726 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1727 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1728 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1729 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1730 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1731 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1732 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1733 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1734 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1735 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1736 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1737 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1738 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1739 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1742 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1743 --------------------------------
1746 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1748 Decoders/Packetizers:
1749 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1752 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1753 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1754 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1755 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1756 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1759 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1760 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1763 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1764 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1767 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1768 and Walloon translations updated
1769 * Sinhala translation started
1772 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1773 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1776 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1777 --------------------------------
1780 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1781 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1784 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1787 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1788 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1791 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1792 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1793 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1794 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1797 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1798 --------------------------------
1801 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1802 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1805 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1806 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1809 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1810 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1813 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1816 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1817 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1820 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1821 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1824 * New Walloon translation
1825 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1828 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1829 --------------------------------
1832 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1833 regressions in most popular drivers
1834 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1837 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1838 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1839 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1842 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1843 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1846 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1847 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1848 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1849 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1850 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1853 * New udev module for linux
1856 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1859 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1862 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1863 --------------------------------
1866 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1867 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1868 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1871 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1872 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1875 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1876 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1879 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1882 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1883 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1884 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1885 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1888 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1889 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1890 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1891 - no support for Goom and SDL
1892 - limited text rendering support
1893 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1896 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1897 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1898 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1899 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1900 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1901 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1902 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1903 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1904 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1908 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1911 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1914 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1915 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1916 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1917 Arabic and French translation updates
1920 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1921 --------------------------------
1924 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1925 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1926 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1927 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1928 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1929 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1932 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1933 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1934 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1937 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1938 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1939 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1942 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1945 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1946 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1949 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1950 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1951 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1952 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1953 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1954 * Fix various crashes
1957 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1959 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1963 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1964 ---------------------------------
1968 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1969 See 'Access:' for more info.
1970 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1973 * Instantaneous pausing
1974 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1975 * Finer speed control
1976 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1977 * Timeshift for most medias
1978 * RTSP trickplay support
1979 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1982 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1983 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1984 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1985 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1986 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1987 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1988 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1989 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1990 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1991 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1994 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1995 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1996 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1997 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1998 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1999 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2000 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2003 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2004 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2007 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2008 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2009 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2010 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2011 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2012 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2013 * DVB scanning on linux
2014 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2015 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2016 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2017 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2018 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2019 * MTP device access on Unix
2020 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2021 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2024 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2025 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2026 Windows and Mac OS X.
2029 * Export the playlist in HTML
2030 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2031 * Better metadata handling and reading
2033 Linux/Windows interface:
2034 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2035 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2036 * Recently played items list
2037 * Interface toolbar customizations
2038 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2039 - More menus actions
2040 - Finer speed slider
2041 - Improvements on many dialogs
2042 - New dialog for plugins listing
2043 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2044 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2045 * Better integration in GTK environments
2048 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2049 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2050 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2051 * Additional usability improvements
2054 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2055 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2056 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2057 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2058 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2061 * New Maemo port with:
2062 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2063 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2066 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2069 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2070 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2071 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2072 * Support for latest iSight models
2075 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2076 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2079 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2080 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2081 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2082 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2083 The old image video output has been removed.
2084 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2085 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2088 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2096 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2097 --------------------------------------
2103 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2104 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2105 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2106 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2107 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2108 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2109 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2111 Various fixes to the following modules:
2114 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2115 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2116 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2118 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2123 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2124 ---------------------------------
2127 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2128 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2131 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2132 ---------------------------------
2135 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2138 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2141 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2142 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2143 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2144 main controller window.
2145 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2148 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2153 * Updates of other localizations
2156 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2157 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2158 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2159 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2160 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2163 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2164 ---------------------------------
2167 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2169 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2172 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2173 --------------------------------
2178 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2179 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2182 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2183 --------------------------------
2185 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2186 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2189 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2192 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2193 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2196 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2197 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2200 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2201 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2202 * Various fixed in playlist
2205 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2208 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2211 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2212 ------------------------------------
2214 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2215 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2218 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2219 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2220 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2223 * Stability fix for the video output.
2226 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2227 --------------------------------
2230 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2231 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2232 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2233 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2234 * Fixed update system bugs
2235 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2238 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2239 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2240 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2241 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2242 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2243 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2244 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2245 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2246 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2247 modern Mac OS X versions
2250 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2251 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2253 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2254 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2257 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2258 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2259 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2260 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2261 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2262 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2265 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2266 --------------------------------
2268 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2269 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2270 * Multiple bugfixes.
2273 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2274 --------------------------------
2276 * Multiple bug fixes.
2279 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2280 ---------------------------------
2284 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2285 recent to work correctly
2286 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2287 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2288 edit the ".hosts" file.
2289 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2290 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2291 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2292 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2293 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2294 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2295 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2296 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2297 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2298 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2299 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2300 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2301 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2302 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2303 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2304 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2305 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2306 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2307 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2308 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2309 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2310 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2311 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2312 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2313 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2314 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2315 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2316 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2317 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2318 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2319 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2320 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2321 and postproc modules.
2322 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2323 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2324 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2325 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2327 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2328 filter. For example:
2329 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2330 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2332 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2333 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2339 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2341 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2342 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2345 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2346 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2348 * Shoutcast TV listings
2349 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2351 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2352 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2354 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2357 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2358 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2359 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2360 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2361 * JACK audio input support
2362 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2363 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2364 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2365 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2366 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2367 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2368 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2369 (available as a separate download).
2370 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2371 * RTMP input support
2372 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2373 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2374 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2376 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2377 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2380 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2381 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2382 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2383 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2385 * APEv1/2 tags support
2386 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2387 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2389 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2390 * TiVo Series 2 support
2391 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2396 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2397 * Flash Screen Video support
2398 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2399 * DosBox Capture support
2400 * Karl Morton's Video support
2401 * limited atrac3 support
2403 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2404 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2405 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2406 * H.264 PAFF support
2407 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2408 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2409 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2410 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2411 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2414 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2415 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2416 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2417 * AQTitle subtitles support
2418 * MKV USF subtitles support
2419 * HTML-based subtitles support
2420 * MPSub subtitles support
2421 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2422 * MPL2 subtitles support
2423 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2424 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2425 * Realtext subtitle support
2426 * DKS subtitle support
2427 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2428 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2431 * Flash Screen Video support
2432 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2434 Video outputs and filters:
2435 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2436 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2437 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2438 * New puzzle video output filter
2439 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2440 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2442 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2443 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2444 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2445 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2446 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2447 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2448 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2449 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2450 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2451 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2452 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2453 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2454 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2455 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2457 Audio outputs and filters:
2458 * Replay gain support
2459 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2460 new scaletempo audio filter)
2461 * New spatializer audio filter
2462 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2465 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2466 * New RTP payload formats:
2467 * Speex voice audio codec
2468 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2469 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2470 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2471 * DCCP transport for RTP
2472 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2477 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2478 end-user suitable way.
2479 * Improved user interaction
2480 * Improved mouse gestures
2481 * Vastly improved Update checker
2482 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2484 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2485 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2487 * Improved video output features
2488 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2489 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2490 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2491 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2492 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2494 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2495 if libncursesw is available.
2496 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2497 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2498 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2500 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2501 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2502 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2503 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2504 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2505 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2506 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2507 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2510 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2511 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2512 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2515 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2516 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2517 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2518 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2519 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2520 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2523 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2524 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2534 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2535 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2536 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2539 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2540 ----------------------------------
2543 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2546 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2547 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2548 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2549 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2550 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2551 * Updated Polish translation
2554 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2555 ----------------------------------
2558 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2559 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2560 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2563 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2564 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2565 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2566 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2567 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2568 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2569 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2570 to an unexpected application termination
2571 * New Serbian translation
2572 * Updated Romanian translation
2575 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2576 ----------------------------------
2579 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2580 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2581 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2582 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2583 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2584 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2585 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2586 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2589 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2590 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2591 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2592 * Fixed AAC resampling
2593 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2594 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2597 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2598 ----------------------------------
2601 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2602 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2603 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2604 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2605 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2608 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2609 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2610 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2611 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2612 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2615 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2616 ----------------------------------
2619 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2620 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2623 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2624 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2625 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2626 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2628 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2632 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2635 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2638 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2641 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2644 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2645 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2646 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2647 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2648 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2650 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2651 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2652 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2653 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2656 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2659 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2660 ----------------------------------
2663 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2664 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2665 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2667 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2668 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2670 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2671 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2674 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2676 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2677 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2678 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2679 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2680 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2681 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2682 two different movies
2683 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2684 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2685 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2688 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2691 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2692 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2693 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2694 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2697 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2698 ----------------------------------
2700 Various bugfixes, notably:
2701 * Windows Vista compatibility
2702 * Cropping in Direct3D
2703 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2704 * RSS filter string overflow
2706 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2708 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2709 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2712 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2713 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2716 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2719 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2722 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2725 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2726 ----------------------------------
2728 Various bugfixes, notably:
2729 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2730 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2731 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2732 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2733 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2734 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2737 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2738 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2741 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2743 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2744 * Diverse usability improvements
2745 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2746 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2747 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2750 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2751 ---------------------------------
2753 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2754 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2757 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2760 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2761 --------------------------------
2764 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2767 * Support for RTSP authentication
2768 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2769 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2770 * ATSC support for DVB input
2771 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2772 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2773 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2776 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2777 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2778 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2779 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2780 * Matroska WavPack support
2781 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2782 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2783 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2786 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2787 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2788 * Improved libcaca support
2792 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2793 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2795 * Systray support in skins
2797 * Support for Apple Remote control
2798 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2799 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2800 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2801 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2803 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2806 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2807 Windows 9x/ME users:
2808 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2809 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2810 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2811 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2812 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2814 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2815 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2824 * Updates to the libvlc API
2825 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2828 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2829 --------------------------------
2832 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2833 * Support for downloading updates
2837 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2838 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2839 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2840 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2842 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2843 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2844 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2847 * Cook (Real audio) support
2849 Playlist / Services discovery:
2850 * XSPF playlist support
2852 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2855 * New JACK audio output
2858 * New video filters:
2859 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2860 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2861 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2862 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2863 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2864 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2867 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2870 * System to inform the user and request information
2871 - HTTP authentication
2875 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2876 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2877 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2880 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2881 - Improved playlist handling
2882 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2884 - Embedded Video output
2885 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2886 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2887 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2888 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2889 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2891 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2892 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2895 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2898 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2899 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2900 * Growl "Now playing" support
2903 * Ability to log to syslog
2904 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2907 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2909 * A bit more automatic testing
2912 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2913 ---------------------------------
2916 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2917 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2920 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2921 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2924 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2927 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2928 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2934 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2937 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2938 --------------------------------
2941 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2945 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2946 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2947 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2950 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2951 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2952 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2953 * GnomeVFS input module
2954 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2955 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2958 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2959 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2960 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2963 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2964 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2970 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2971 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2974 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2975 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2976 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2979 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2981 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2982 - New extended controls panel
2983 - New bookmarks window
2984 - Fixed playlist sorting
2985 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2987 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2988 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2989 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2990 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2994 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2995 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2997 - Include macro to include other files
3001 * Should now work outside IE as well
3004 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3007 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3008 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3011 The following languages were added:
3015 * Simplified Chinese
3016 The following languages were re-added:
3020 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3021 --------------------------------
3024 * Rewrite of the playlist
3026 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3027 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3028 * Preferences improvements:
3029 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3030 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3032 * Core image manipulation support
3033 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3034 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3035 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3036 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3037 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3038 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3039 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3040 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3041 * Access filter architecture
3042 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3043 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3047 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3048 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3049 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3050 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3051 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3052 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3053 * Massive Matroska improvements
3054 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3056 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3057 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3058 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3059 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3060 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3062 Decoders / Encoders:
3063 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3064 * PNG decoder/encoder
3065 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3066 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3069 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3072 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3073 * Brand new SAP module
3074 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3075 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3076 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3077 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3078 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3079 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3083 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3086 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3087 * Image file video output (png)
3088 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3089 * Improvements to wall video filter
3090 * Support for font color and opacity
3096 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3097 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3098 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3102 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3103 - Improved preferences
3104 - Improvements to the wizard
3105 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3107 - Redesigned playlist
3108 - Improved preferences
3110 - Support for multiple actions
3113 - Support for the new playlist system
3115 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3118 * Screensaver disabling fix
3119 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3120 * Support for no-decoration windows
3123 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3124 * The OpenGL video output is back
3125 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3126 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3127 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3128 is not yet available in the new module
3129 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3132 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3141 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3144 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3147 The following languages were added:
3153 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3154 --------------------------------
3157 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3158 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3161 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3162 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3163 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3166 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3169 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3172 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3175 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3176 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3177 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3181 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3183 * Support of playlist group announcement
3186 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3187 --------------------------------
3190 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3191 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3192 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3193 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3194 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3195 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3198 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3199 (Stream your desktop)
3200 * Improved DVD support:
3201 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3202 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3203 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3204 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3205 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3206 (selection of titles/chapters).
3209 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3210 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3211 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3212 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3213 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3214 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3215 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3216 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3217 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3218 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3221 * G.726 audio support
3222 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3223 * MPEG-4 text support
3224 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3225 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3226 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3230 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3231 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3232 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3233 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3234 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3235 * DVB subtitles encoder
3236 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3237 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3239 * Text track muxing for mp4
3240 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3241 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3242 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3243 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3244 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3245 * Improved ASF muxer
3247 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3248 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3249 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3252 * New audio equalizer filter
3253 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3254 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3255 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3256 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3259 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3260 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3261 with support for effects.
3262 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3263 - New filters can be streamed.
3264 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3265 - Centralized scaling and blending
3267 - "time", to display current time
3268 - "marq", to display a marquee
3271 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3272 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3273 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3274 * A few skins2 improvements
3275 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3276 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3277 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3278 * Improved CORBA control module
3281 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3282 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3283 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3286 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3287 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3288 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3291 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3292 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3293 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3294 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3295 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3298 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3301 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3302 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3305 * Server/client network synchronization module
3306 * VBrick streams fully supported
3307 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3311 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3312 --------------------------------
3315 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3316 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3317 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3318 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3321 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3322 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3323 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3324 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3325 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3326 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3327 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3330 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3331 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3332 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3333 * Improved directory access module.
3334 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3335 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3336 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3337 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3338 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3341 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3342 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3343 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3346 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3347 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3348 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3351 * Improved session announcement system.
3352 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3353 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3354 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3355 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3356 * Improved transrater.
3357 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3358 * New configuration system.
3359 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3362 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3363 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3364 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3365 * Supports scheduling.
3366 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3367 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3370 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3371 - Ability to embed video output.
3372 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3373 - Lots of improvements.
3374 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3375 - New design and set of icons.
3376 - Ability to embed video output.
3377 - Support for hotkeys.
3378 - Support for bookmarks.
3380 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3381 - Better hotkeys handling.
3384 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3385 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3386 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3387 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3390 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3391 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3392 * Improved Windows installer.
3398 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3399 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3402 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3403 ---------------------------------
3406 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3407 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3410 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3411 --------------------------------
3414 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3415 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3418 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3419 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3420 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3421 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3424 * Internal improvments
3425 * Improved import/export
3428 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3430 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3431 small and strange formats.
3433 * New MOD audio demux.
3434 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3435 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3436 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3437 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3440 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3441 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3442 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3448 * New opengl video output plugin.
3451 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3452 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3455 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3456 --------------------------------
3459 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3460 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3461 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3462 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3463 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3464 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3465 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3466 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3469 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3474 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3475 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3476 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3477 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3478 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3479 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3480 * Better Icecast support.
3481 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3482 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3485 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3486 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3487 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3488 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3489 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3490 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3491 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3494 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3495 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3496 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3497 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3498 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3499 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3500 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3501 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3502 * Preliminary RTP support.
3503 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3508 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3509 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3511 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3512 - Improvements and help in preferences
3513 - New streaming wizard
3514 - Revised Disc Open menu
3516 - Improvements of the standard pages
3517 - Support for new commands
3518 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3521 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3522 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3525 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3526 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3527 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3528 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3529 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3530 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3531 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3532 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3533 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3536 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3538 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3539 * Support for Panther.
3540 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3541 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3544 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3545 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3546 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3547 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3548 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3549 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3550 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3551 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3554 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3555 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3556 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3559 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3562 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3563 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3564 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3565 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3568 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3569 --------------------------------
3572 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3575 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3576 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3579 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3580 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3583 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3586 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3587 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3590 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3593 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3596 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3597 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3601 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3602 --------------------------------
3605 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3606 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3610 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3611 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3612 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3614 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3615 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3618 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3621 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3624 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3625 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3629 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3630 --------------------------------
3633 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3634 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3638 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3639 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3640 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3641 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3642 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3645 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3646 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3647 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3650 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3651 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3652 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3655 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3656 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3657 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3658 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3659 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3662 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3663 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3664 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3667 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3670 * Improved build system.
3671 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3672 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3673 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3674 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3677 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3678 --------------------------------
3681 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3684 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3685 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3686 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3687 * Video 4 Linux support
3688 * CD Digital Audio support
3689 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3692 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3693 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3694 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3695 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3698 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3699 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3700 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3701 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3702 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3703 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3704 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3707 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3708 * New HTTP remote control interface
3711 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3712 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3713 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3714 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3715 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3718 * New reset option for the preferences
3719 * You can set your language in the prefences
3720 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3721 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3722 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3723 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3726 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3727 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3728 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3731 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3732 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3733 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3734 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3735 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3736 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3737 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3738 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3739 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3740 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3743 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3744 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3745 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3746 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3747 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3748 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3749 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3752 * Interface localization
3753 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3754 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3755 * New full-featured Preferences window
3758 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3759 --------------------------------
3762 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3763 * support for skins at the interface level
3764 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3765 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3766 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3767 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3768 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3771 * fixed HTTP redirects
3772 * support for opening an entire directory
3773 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3774 * new video4linux access plug-in
3775 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3778 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3779 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3780 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3783 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3784 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3785 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3786 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3787 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3788 * new codec for raw I420 video
3789 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3792 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3793 (although it still misses some important features)
3794 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3797 * new HTTP output support
3798 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3799 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3802 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3805 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3808 * reorderable playlist
3809 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3810 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3811 * support for mono audio output devices
3812 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3813 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3814 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3815 * the messages window remembers more lines
3816 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3817 * http and ogg stream output options
3818 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3821 * new skinnable interface
3822 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3824 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3825 * support for FLAC audio format
3826 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3828 * network tab in the interface
3829 * "apply" handling in preferences
3832 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3833 ---------------------------------
3836 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3837 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3838 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3839 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3841 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3842 * DTS S/PDIF support
3845 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3846 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3847 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3848 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3851 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3852 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3855 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3858 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3861 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3863 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3864 * rc interface is now fully useable
3865 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3868 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3869 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3870 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3871 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3872 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3874 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3875 * support for mouse gestures
3876 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3879 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3880 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3883 * improved ID3 tag detection
3884 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3885 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3886 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3888 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3891 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3892 ---------------------------------
3895 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3896 English was set as the preferred language
3899 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3900 --------------------------------
3903 * new mouse gesture interface
3904 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3908 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3909 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3910 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3913 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3914 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3918 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3921 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3922 without the user consent
3925 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3927 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3928 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3929 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3932 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3933 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3934 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3935 * playlist enhancements
3936 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3937 * new step forward/step backward commands
3938 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3939 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3940 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3943 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3944 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3945 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3948 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3949 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3952 * native video output is working again
3953 * only commandline interface support
3954 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3957 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3958 --------------------------------
3961 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3962 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3963 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3964 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3965 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3966 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3967 and A/52 streams are supported)
3968 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3973 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3974 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3975 * VCD entry points support
3976 * VCD image file support
3979 * support for *.asf format
3980 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3981 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3982 * support for ogg encapsulation
3983 * support for raw DV format
3984 * support for *.wav format
3985 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3988 Stream discovery & playlists:
3989 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3990 * support for .m3u file format
3991 * support for .asx file format
3992 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3995 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3996 (only available with the .avi demux)
3997 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3998 * support for raw PCM data
3999 * support for Cinepak video codec
4000 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4001 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4002 * support for Xvid codec
4003 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4004 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4005 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4007 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4009 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4012 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4015 * new WxWindows interface
4016 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4017 device and the channels configuration
4018 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4019 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4020 format that VLC can play
4021 * new swedish translation
4022 * enhancements of the playlist window
4023 * new messages window to see debug info
4024 * fixed a few crashes
4027 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4028 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4029 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4030 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working