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
9 * Add extensions download from external repositories
12 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
13 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
14 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
15 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation
16 * Digital Cinema Package support
19 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
20 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
21 * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1, Bink
22 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
23 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
24 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
25 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
26 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
27 * New jpeg image decoder
30 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
31 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
32 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
33 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
36 * New CAF format module
37 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking
38 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking
39 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
40 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
43 * Basic support for WebVTT
44 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio stream type in TS
45 * Support HDPR TS files
46 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
47 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
48 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
49 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
52 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
53 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
57 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
58 * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
59 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
60 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
61 * New Android native window provider module
62 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
63 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
66 * New Oldmovie effect filter
67 * New VHS effect filter
68 * New Freeze effect filter
69 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
70 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
73 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
74 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
77 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
78 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
79 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
80 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
81 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
82 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
83 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
84 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
85 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
87 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
88 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
91 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
92 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
95 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
96 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
99 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
100 * Add record button in Qt menus
101 * Fixes for advanced preferences on OS X
104 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
105 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
108 * ios video output: use ios2
109 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
110 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
113 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
114 --------------------------------
117 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
119 * Fix some subtitles track selection
122 * VP9 support in WebM
123 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
124 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
127 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
128 * Support Speex in ogg files
129 * Fix some .mov playlists support
130 * Support Alac in mkv
131 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
132 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
135 * Fix DVB options parsing
136 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
137 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
140 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
141 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
144 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
145 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
148 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
149 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
150 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
151 * Fix play after drag'n drop
152 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
155 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
156 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
159 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
160 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
163 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
164 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
165 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
166 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
167 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
168 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
169 * Improves interface resizings
172 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
173 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
174 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
175 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
176 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
180 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
181 --------------------------------
184 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
185 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
186 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
187 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
188 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
190 3rd party libraries (contrib):
191 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
194 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
195 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
196 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
197 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
198 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
201 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
202 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
206 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
207 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
208 * Support for Ulead DV audio
209 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
210 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
211 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
212 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
213 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
214 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
215 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
216 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
217 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
218 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
221 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
222 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
223 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
226 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
227 remove support for previous OS X releases
228 * Major improvements in DASH support
229 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
230 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
231 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
232 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
233 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
234 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
235 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
236 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
237 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
238 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
239 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
242 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
243 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
244 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
245 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
246 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
247 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
248 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
249 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
250 * Support for more MJPEG streams
251 * Add support for liveleak streams
252 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
253 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
254 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
257 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
258 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
259 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
260 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
261 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
262 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
263 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
264 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
265 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
266 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
267 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
270 * New remapping channel filter
271 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
272 * New VSXu visualization plugin
273 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
274 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
275 * New gain audio filter
278 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
279 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
280 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
281 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
282 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
283 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
284 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
285 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
286 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
289 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
290 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
291 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
292 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
293 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
294 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
295 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
298 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
299 * Options support for AVIO output module
300 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
301 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
302 * Livehttp stream encryption support
303 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
304 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
307 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
310 * configurable password for the HTTP server
311 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
312 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
313 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
314 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
315 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
316 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
317 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
321 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
324 * Add support for multiple video outputs
325 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
327 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
328 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
329 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
330 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
331 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
332 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
333 VLC's internal volume level
334 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
336 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
337 selection and to manage the list of presets
338 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
339 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
340 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
341 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
342 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
343 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
344 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
345 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
346 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
347 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
349 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
350 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
351 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
352 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
353 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
354 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
355 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
356 3rd party applications
357 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
358 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
359 (system-wide settings)
360 * Add support for the Video Title option
361 * Add support for the Boss Key
362 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
363 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
366 * Partial support for Qt5.0
367 * Menus modifications and improvements
368 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
369 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
370 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
371 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
372 * EPG display fixes and improvements
373 * Add SD pixmap sources
374 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
375 * Display playlist total duration
376 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
377 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
378 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
383 * Extend sliders, offsets options
384 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
385 * Numerous fixes and improvements
386 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
389 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
390 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
391 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
392 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
393 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
394 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
395 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
396 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
397 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
398 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
401 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
402 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
403 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
404 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
405 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
406 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
408 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
409 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
410 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
411 * Broken crop video filter
413 * OSD parser and menu
414 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
415 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
416 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
417 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
421 * Update of all translations
424 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
425 --------------------------------
428 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
429 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
432 * Fix modplug security issues
435 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
436 --------------------------------
440 * Fix crash in QTsound
441 * Fix screen mouse file location
442 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
445 * Fix use after free in sgimb
446 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
449 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
452 * Fix interface crashes
453 * Fix autostart playback option
454 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
457 * update Welsh translation
458 * New Kannada translation
461 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
462 --------------------------------
465 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
466 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
470 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
473 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
476 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
479 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
483 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
486 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
489 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
490 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
491 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
494 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
495 --------------------------------
498 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
501 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
504 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
505 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
506 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
507 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
508 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
509 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
512 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
513 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
514 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
515 * 3rd party codecs updates
518 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
519 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
520 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
521 in the advanced preferences panel
522 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
523 * Fix crash within the video output code
524 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
525 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
526 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
527 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
529 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
532 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
535 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
536 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
539 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
542 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
543 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
544 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
545 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
546 Dutch, Danish, translations
547 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
550 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
551 --------------------------------
554 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
557 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
558 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
559 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
562 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
563 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
564 * Fix koreus lua parser
565 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
566 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
567 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
568 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
571 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
572 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
575 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
578 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
579 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
580 * Fix Time counter UI look
581 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
584 * Fix https streaming
587 * Fix audio and video track selection:
588 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
589 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
592 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
593 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
594 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
595 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
596 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
599 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
600 --------------------------------
603 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
604 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
605 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
606 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
607 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
608 during playback on Mac OS X
611 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
612 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
613 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
616 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
617 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
618 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
619 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
620 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
623 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
624 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
625 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
626 * Support Youtube live streams
629 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
632 * Fix media info dialog update
633 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
634 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
635 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
636 * Fix album art display at start
639 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
640 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
641 * Fix menus display and behavior
642 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
643 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
644 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
645 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
646 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
647 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
648 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
651 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
652 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
653 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
654 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
655 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
656 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
657 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
658 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
659 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
662 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
663 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
664 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
665 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
666 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
669 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
670 --------------------------------
673 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
676 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
677 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
680 * Add GateKeeper support
681 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
682 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
683 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
686 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
689 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
690 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
691 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
692 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
693 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
696 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
697 --------------------------------
700 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
701 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
702 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
703 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
704 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
705 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
706 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
707 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
708 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
709 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
710 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
714 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
715 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
716 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
717 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
718 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
719 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
720 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
721 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
722 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
723 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
724 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
725 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
728 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
729 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
731 * Fix MP3 free format support
734 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
735 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
736 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
737 * Fix for DVB channels file support
738 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
741 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
742 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
744 Audio filters and output:
745 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
746 * Fix DirectSound device selection
747 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
748 * Do not apply volume in file output
749 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
750 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
753 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
754 the persistant media library
755 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
756 to the media library or the temporary playlist
757 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
758 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
759 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
760 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
761 press on the Play/Pause button
762 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
763 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
764 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
765 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
766 * Many Fullscreen fixes
767 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
768 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
769 Synchronization panel
770 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
771 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
772 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
773 * Fix crashes on exit
774 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
776 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
777 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
778 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
779 automatically reset on the first launch.
780 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
781 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
782 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
785 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
786 * Fixes for icecast SD
789 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
790 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
791 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
792 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
793 * Fix tags and file names display
794 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
797 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
798 * Fix for key events and focus loss
801 * Fix display of some buttons
802 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
803 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
806 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
807 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
808 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
811 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
812 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
813 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
814 Thai translations update
815 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
818 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
819 --------------------------------
822 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
823 * fix the samba module compilation
824 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
825 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
826 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
827 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
830 * Support for MXPEG files
831 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
832 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
835 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
836 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
837 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
840 * Fix ogm header creation
843 * limit spatializer filter distortions
844 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
847 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
848 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
849 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
850 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
853 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
856 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
857 * allow to hide the sidebar
858 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
859 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
860 * noticebly faster launch time
861 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
862 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
863 * improve track synchronization panel
864 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
865 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
868 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
869 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
870 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
871 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
874 * fix for menus display
875 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
876 * documentation update
879 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
880 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
883 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
884 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
885 * Update Jamendo selections
889 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
890 * fix a crash on VLM close
893 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
894 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
895 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
896 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
899 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
902 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
903 ---------------------------------
906 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
907 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
908 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
909 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
910 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
911 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
912 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
913 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
914 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
915 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
916 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
917 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
918 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
919 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
920 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
921 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
922 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
923 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
924 --http-crl (optional CRL).
925 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
926 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
927 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
928 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
929 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
930 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
931 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
933 Important changes for packagers:
934 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
935 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
936 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
937 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
938 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
939 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
940 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
941 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
942 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
943 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
946 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
947 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
948 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
949 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
950 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
951 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
952 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
955 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
956 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
957 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
958 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
959 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
960 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
961 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
962 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
963 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
964 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
965 * PulseAudio audio input support
966 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
967 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
968 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
969 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
970 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
971 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
972 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
973 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
976 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
977 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
978 are notably concerned.
979 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
980 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
981 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
982 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
983 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
984 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
985 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
986 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
987 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
988 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
989 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
990 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
991 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
992 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
993 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
996 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
997 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
998 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
999 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1000 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1001 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1002 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1003 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1004 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1005 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1006 * Improved support of tracker files
1007 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1010 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1011 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1012 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1013 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1014 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1015 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1016 and important cleanups and optimisations
1017 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1018 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1019 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1020 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1021 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1022 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1023 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1024 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1025 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1026 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1027 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1028 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1029 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1030 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1031 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1032 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1033 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1034 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1035 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1036 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1037 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1040 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1041 * New video output for iOS platform
1042 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1043 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1044 * Various vmem improvements
1045 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1046 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1047 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1048 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1049 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1050 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1052 Audio Output and Filters:
1053 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1054 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1055 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1056 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1057 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1058 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1059 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1060 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1061 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1062 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1065 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1066 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1067 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1068 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1069 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1070 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1071 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1072 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1073 * New anti-flickering filter
1074 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1075 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1076 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1077 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1078 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1079 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1080 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1083 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1084 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1085 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1086 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1087 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1088 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1089 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1090 * Major rework of VoD support
1091 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1092 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1093 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1094 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1095 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1096 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1097 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1098 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1099 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1100 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1103 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1104 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1107 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1108 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1109 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1110 list of available audio and video filters
1111 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1112 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1113 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1116 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1117 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1118 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1119 * id3tag: use taglib
1120 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1121 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1122 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1123 * removal of the noise filter
1124 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1125 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1126 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1127 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1130 * Update of translations for most languages.
1131 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1134 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1135 ----------------------------------
1138 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1139 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1142 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1143 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1146 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1147 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1148 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1151 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1154 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1155 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1158 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1161 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1162 ----------------------------------
1165 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1166 including support for OS X Lion
1167 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1168 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1171 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1174 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1175 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1176 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1179 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1182 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1183 ----------------------------------
1186 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1187 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1190 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1191 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1192 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1193 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1194 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1196 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1197 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1198 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1200 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1201 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1204 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1207 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1210 * Fix quitting on Linux
1211 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1215 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1218 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1221 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1222 ---------------------------------
1224 Windows and Mac OS X:
1225 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1228 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1229 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1232 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1235 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1238 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1240 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1241 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1243 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1244 * RTP output and XML export
1245 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1249 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1250 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1251 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1252 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1255 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1256 --------------------------------
1258 Windows and Mac OS X:
1259 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1262 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1265 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1266 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1267 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1268 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1269 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1270 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1273 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1274 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1278 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1279 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1280 * New Luganda Translation
1283 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1284 --------------------------------
1287 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1290 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1291 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1292 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1293 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1296 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1298 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1299 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1300 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1301 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1302 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1303 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1304 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1305 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1307 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1308 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1309 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1310 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1311 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1312 * Configure and build system improvements
1313 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1316 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1317 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1318 * New icelandic translation
1321 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1322 --------------------------------
1325 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1326 #234484 and #260719.
1329 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1330 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1331 and stability reasons
1334 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1338 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1341 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1342 ----------------------------------
1345 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1348 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1349 ---------------------------------
1352 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1353 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1354 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1355 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1358 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1361 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1362 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1363 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1364 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1367 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1368 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1369 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1371 Subtitles and renderer:
1372 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1373 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1374 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1375 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1376 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1379 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1380 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1381 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1382 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1385 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1386 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1388 Miscellaneous fixes:
1389 * KDE device solid actions
1391 * Transcode integer overflow
1392 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1393 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1396 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1397 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1398 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1401 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1402 ----------------------------------
1405 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1409 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1412 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1415 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1416 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1417 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1418 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1421 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1425 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1428 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1431 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1432 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1434 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1438 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1439 * Miscellaneous fixes
1442 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1443 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1444 French and Ukrainian
1445 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1446 * New Asturian translation
1449 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1450 ----------------------------------
1453 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1455 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1458 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1461 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1462 * Various fixes for Windows
1465 * New Armenian translation
1466 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1467 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1470 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1471 --------------------------------
1474 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1475 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1476 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1479 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1480 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1483 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1484 --------------------------------
1486 Access and demuxers:
1487 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1488 * fix for podcasts parsing
1489 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1492 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1493 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1496 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1497 * fix m3u playlists exports
1500 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1503 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1506 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1509 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1512 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1515 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1516 --------------------------------
1519 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1520 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1523 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1524 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1527 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1528 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1529 * fix console output encoding
1531 Interface and extensions:
1532 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1533 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1536 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1537 --------------------------------
1540 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1541 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1542 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1543 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1544 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1545 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1546 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1547 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1548 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1549 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1550 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1551 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1552 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1553 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1554 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1555 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1559 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1560 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1561 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1562 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1563 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1566 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1569 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1570 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1571 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1575 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1578 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1579 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1580 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1583 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1584 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1585 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1586 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1589 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1590 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1593 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1594 --------------------------------
1596 Important changes for users:
1597 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1598 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1600 Important changes for packagers:
1601 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1602 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1603 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1604 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1605 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1607 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1609 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1610 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1611 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1612 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1613 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1616 * Support for the sftp protocol
1617 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1618 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1619 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1620 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1621 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1624 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1625 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1626 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1628 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1629 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1630 * Invmem module improvements
1631 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1632 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1633 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1634 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1635 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1636 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1637 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1638 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1639 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1640 * Support for VP8 codec
1641 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1644 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1645 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1646 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1647 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1648 * Various EGP improvements
1649 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1650 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1653 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1654 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1655 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1656 * Podcast images are now displayed
1659 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1660 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1661 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1662 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1663 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1664 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1665 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1666 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1667 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1668 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1669 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1672 * New content extensions lua framework
1675 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1676 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1677 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1678 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1679 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1680 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1681 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1684 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1685 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1686 * Service discovery based on libudev
1687 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1690 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1691 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1692 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1693 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1694 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1695 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1696 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1699 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1700 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1701 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1704 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1706 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1707 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1710 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1713 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1714 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1715 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1716 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1717 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1718 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1719 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1722 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1723 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1726 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1727 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1728 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1732 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1733 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1734 * Improved Solaris port
1737 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1738 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1741 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1742 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1743 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1744 * transrate: broken since too long
1745 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1746 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1747 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1748 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1749 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1750 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1751 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1752 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1753 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1754 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1755 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1756 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1757 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1758 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1761 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1762 --------------------------------
1765 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1767 Decoders/Packetizers:
1768 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1771 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1772 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1773 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1774 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1775 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1778 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1779 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1782 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1783 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1786 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1787 and Walloon translations updated
1788 * Sinhala translation started
1791 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1792 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1795 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1796 --------------------------------
1799 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1800 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1803 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1806 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1807 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1810 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1811 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1812 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1813 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1816 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1817 --------------------------------
1820 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1821 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1824 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1825 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1828 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1829 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1832 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1835 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1836 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1839 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1840 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1843 * New Walloon translation
1844 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1847 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1848 --------------------------------
1851 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1852 regressions in most popular drivers
1853 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1856 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1857 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1858 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1861 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1862 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1865 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1866 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1867 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1868 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1869 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1872 * New udev module for linux
1875 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1878 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1881 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1882 --------------------------------
1885 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1886 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1887 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1890 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1891 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1894 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1895 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1898 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1901 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1902 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1903 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1904 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1907 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1908 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1909 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1910 - no support for Goom and SDL
1911 - limited text rendering support
1912 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1915 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1916 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1917 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1918 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1919 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1920 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1921 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1922 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1923 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1927 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1930 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1933 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1934 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1935 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1936 Arabic and French translation updates
1939 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1940 --------------------------------
1943 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1944 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1945 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1946 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1947 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1948 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1951 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1952 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1953 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1956 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1957 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1958 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1961 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1964 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1965 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1968 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1969 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1970 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1971 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1972 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1973 * Fix various crashes
1976 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1978 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1982 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1983 ---------------------------------
1987 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1988 See 'Access:' for more info.
1989 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1992 * Instantaneous pausing
1993 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1994 * Finer speed control
1995 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1996 * Timeshift for most medias
1997 * RTSP trickplay support
1998 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2001 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2002 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2003 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2004 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2005 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2006 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2007 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2008 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2009 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2010 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2013 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2014 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2015 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2016 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2017 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2018 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2019 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2022 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2023 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2026 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2027 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2028 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2029 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2030 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2031 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2032 * DVB scanning on linux
2033 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2034 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2035 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2036 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2037 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2038 * MTP device access on Unix
2039 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2040 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2043 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2044 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2045 Windows and Mac OS X.
2048 * Export the playlist in HTML
2049 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2050 * Better metadata handling and reading
2052 Linux/Windows interface:
2053 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2054 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2055 * Recently played items list
2056 * Interface toolbar customizations
2057 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2058 - More menus actions
2059 - Finer speed slider
2060 - Improvements on many dialogs
2061 - New dialog for plugins listing
2062 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2063 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2064 * Better integration in GTK environments
2067 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2068 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2069 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2070 * Additional usability improvements
2073 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2074 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2075 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2076 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2077 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2080 * New Maemo port with:
2081 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2082 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2085 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2088 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2089 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2090 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2091 * Support for latest iSight models
2094 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2095 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2098 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2099 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2100 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2101 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2102 The old image video output has been removed.
2103 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2104 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2107 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2115 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2116 --------------------------------------
2122 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2123 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2124 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2125 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2126 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2127 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2128 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2130 Various fixes to the following modules:
2133 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2134 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2135 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2137 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2142 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2143 ---------------------------------
2146 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2147 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2150 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2151 ---------------------------------
2154 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2157 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2160 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2161 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2162 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2163 main controller window.
2164 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2167 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2172 * Updates of other localizations
2175 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2176 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2177 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2178 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2179 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2182 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2183 ---------------------------------
2186 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2188 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2191 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2192 --------------------------------
2197 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2198 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2201 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2202 --------------------------------
2204 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2205 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2208 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2211 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2212 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2215 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2216 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2219 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2220 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2221 * Various fixed in playlist
2224 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2227 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2230 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2231 ------------------------------------
2233 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2234 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2237 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2238 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2239 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2242 * Stability fix for the video output.
2245 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2246 --------------------------------
2249 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2250 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2251 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2252 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2253 * Fixed update system bugs
2254 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2257 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2258 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2259 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2260 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2261 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2262 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2263 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2264 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2265 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2266 modern Mac OS X versions
2269 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2270 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2272 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2273 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2276 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2277 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2278 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2279 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2280 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2281 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2284 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2285 --------------------------------
2287 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2288 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2289 * Multiple bugfixes.
2292 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2293 --------------------------------
2295 * Multiple bug fixes.
2298 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2299 ---------------------------------
2303 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2304 recent to work correctly
2305 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2306 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2307 edit the ".hosts" file.
2308 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2309 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2310 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2311 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2312 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2313 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2314 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2315 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2316 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2317 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2318 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2319 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2320 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2321 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2322 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2323 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2324 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2325 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2326 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2327 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2328 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2329 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2330 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2331 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2332 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2333 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2334 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2335 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2336 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2337 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2338 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2339 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2340 and postproc modules.
2341 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2342 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2343 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2344 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2346 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2347 filter. For example:
2348 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2349 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2351 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2352 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2358 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2360 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2361 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2364 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2365 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2367 * Shoutcast TV listings
2368 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2370 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2371 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2373 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2376 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2377 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2378 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2379 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2380 * JACK audio input support
2381 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2382 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2383 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2384 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2385 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2386 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2387 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2388 (available as a separate download).
2389 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2390 * RTMP input support
2391 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2392 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2393 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2395 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2396 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2399 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2400 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2401 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2402 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2404 * APEv1/2 tags support
2405 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2406 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2408 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2409 * TiVo Series 2 support
2410 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2415 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2416 * Flash Screen Video support
2417 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2418 * DosBox Capture support
2419 * Karl Morton's Video support
2420 * limited atrac3 support
2422 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2423 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2424 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2425 * H.264 PAFF support
2426 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2427 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2428 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2429 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2430 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2433 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2434 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2435 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2436 * AQTitle subtitles support
2437 * MKV USF subtitles support
2438 * HTML-based subtitles support
2439 * MPSub subtitles support
2440 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2441 * MPL2 subtitles support
2442 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2443 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2444 * Realtext subtitle support
2445 * DKS subtitle support
2446 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2447 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2450 * Flash Screen Video support
2451 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2453 Video outputs and filters:
2454 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2455 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2456 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2457 * New puzzle video output filter
2458 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2459 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2461 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2462 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2463 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2464 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2465 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2466 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2467 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2468 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2469 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2470 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2471 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2472 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2473 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2474 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2476 Audio outputs and filters:
2477 * Replay gain support
2478 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2479 new scaletempo audio filter)
2480 * New spatializer audio filter
2481 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2484 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2485 * New RTP payload formats:
2486 * Speex voice audio codec
2487 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2488 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2489 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2490 * DCCP transport for RTP
2491 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2496 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2497 end-user suitable way.
2498 * Improved user interaction
2499 * Improved mouse gestures
2500 * Vastly improved Update checker
2501 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2503 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2504 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2506 * Improved video output features
2507 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2508 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2509 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2510 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2511 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2513 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2514 if libncursesw is available.
2515 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2516 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2517 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2519 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2520 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2521 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2522 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2523 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2524 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2525 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2526 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2529 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2530 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2531 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2534 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2535 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2536 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2537 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2538 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2539 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2542 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2543 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2553 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2554 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2555 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2558 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2559 ----------------------------------
2562 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2565 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2566 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2567 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2568 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2569 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2570 * Updated Polish translation
2573 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2574 ----------------------------------
2577 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2578 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2579 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2582 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2583 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2584 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2585 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2586 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2587 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2588 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2589 to an unexpected application termination
2590 * New Serbian translation
2591 * Updated Romanian translation
2594 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2595 ----------------------------------
2598 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2599 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2600 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2601 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2602 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2603 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2604 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2605 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2608 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2609 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2610 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2611 * Fixed AAC resampling
2612 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2613 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2616 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2617 ----------------------------------
2620 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2621 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2622 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2623 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2624 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2627 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2628 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2629 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2630 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2631 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2634 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2635 ----------------------------------
2638 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2639 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2642 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2643 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2644 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2645 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2647 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2651 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2654 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2657 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2660 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2663 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2664 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2665 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2666 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2667 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2669 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2670 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2671 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2672 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2675 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2678 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2679 ----------------------------------
2682 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2683 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2684 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2686 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2687 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2689 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2690 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2693 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2695 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2696 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2697 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2698 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2699 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2700 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2701 two different movies
2702 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2703 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2704 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2707 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2710 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2711 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2712 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2713 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2716 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2717 ----------------------------------
2719 Various bugfixes, notably:
2720 * Windows Vista compatibility
2721 * Cropping in Direct3D
2722 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2723 * RSS filter string overflow
2725 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2727 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2728 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2731 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2732 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2735 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2738 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2741 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2744 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2745 ----------------------------------
2747 Various bugfixes, notably:
2748 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2749 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2750 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2751 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2752 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2753 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2756 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2757 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2760 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2762 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2763 * Diverse usability improvements
2764 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2765 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2766 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2769 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2770 ---------------------------------
2772 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2773 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2776 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2779 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2780 --------------------------------
2783 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2786 * Support for RTSP authentication
2787 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2788 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2789 * ATSC support for DVB input
2790 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2791 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2792 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2795 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2796 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2797 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2798 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2799 * Matroska WavPack support
2800 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2801 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2802 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2805 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2806 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2807 * Improved libcaca support
2811 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2812 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2814 * Systray support in skins
2816 * Support for Apple Remote control
2817 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2818 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2819 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2820 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2822 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2825 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2826 Windows 9x/ME users:
2827 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2828 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2829 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2830 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2831 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2833 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2834 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2843 * Updates to the libvlc API
2844 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2847 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2848 --------------------------------
2851 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2852 * Support for downloading updates
2856 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2857 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2858 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2859 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2861 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2862 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2863 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2866 * Cook (Real audio) support
2868 Playlist / Services discovery:
2869 * XSPF playlist support
2871 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2874 * New JACK audio output
2877 * New video filters:
2878 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2879 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2880 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2881 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2882 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2883 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2886 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2889 * System to inform the user and request information
2890 - HTTP authentication
2894 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2895 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2896 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2899 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2900 - Improved playlist handling
2901 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2903 - Embedded Video output
2904 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2905 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2906 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2907 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2908 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2910 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2911 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2914 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2917 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2918 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2919 * Growl "Now playing" support
2922 * Ability to log to syslog
2923 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2926 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2928 * A bit more automatic testing
2931 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2932 ---------------------------------
2935 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2936 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2939 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2940 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2943 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2946 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2947 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2953 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2956 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2957 --------------------------------
2960 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2964 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2965 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2966 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2969 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2970 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2971 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2972 * GnomeVFS input module
2973 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2974 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2977 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2978 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2979 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2982 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2983 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2989 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2990 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2993 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2994 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2995 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2998 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3000 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3001 - New extended controls panel
3002 - New bookmarks window
3003 - Fixed playlist sorting
3004 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3006 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3007 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3008 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3009 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3013 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3014 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3016 - Include macro to include other files
3020 * Should now work outside IE as well
3023 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3026 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3027 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3030 The following languages were added:
3034 * Simplified Chinese
3035 The following languages were re-added:
3039 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3040 --------------------------------
3043 * Rewrite of the playlist
3045 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3046 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3047 * Preferences improvements:
3048 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3049 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3051 * Core image manipulation support
3052 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3053 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3054 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3055 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3056 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3057 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3058 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3059 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3060 * Access filter architecture
3061 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3062 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3066 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3067 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3068 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3069 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3070 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3071 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3072 * Massive Matroska improvements
3073 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3075 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3076 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3077 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3078 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3079 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3081 Decoders / Encoders:
3082 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3083 * PNG decoder/encoder
3084 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3085 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3088 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3091 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3092 * Brand new SAP module
3093 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3094 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3095 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3096 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3097 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3098 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3102 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3105 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3106 * Image file video output (png)
3107 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3108 * Improvements to wall video filter
3109 * Support for font color and opacity
3115 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3116 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3117 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3121 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3122 - Improved preferences
3123 - Improvements to the wizard
3124 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3126 - Redesigned playlist
3127 - Improved preferences
3129 - Support for multiple actions
3132 - Support for the new playlist system
3134 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3137 * Screensaver disabling fix
3138 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3139 * Support for no-decoration windows
3142 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3143 * The OpenGL video output is back
3144 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3145 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3146 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3147 is not yet available in the new module
3148 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3151 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3160 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3163 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3166 The following languages were added:
3172 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3173 --------------------------------
3176 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3177 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3180 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3181 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3182 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3185 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3188 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3191 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3194 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3195 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3196 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3200 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3202 * Support of playlist group announcement
3205 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3206 --------------------------------
3209 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3210 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3211 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3212 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3213 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3214 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3217 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3218 (Stream your desktop)
3219 * Improved DVD support:
3220 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3221 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3222 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3223 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3224 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3225 (selection of titles/chapters).
3228 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3229 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3230 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3231 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3232 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3233 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3234 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3235 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3236 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3237 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3240 * G.726 audio support
3241 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3242 * MPEG-4 text support
3243 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3244 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3245 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3249 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3250 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3251 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3252 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3253 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3254 * DVB subtitles encoder
3255 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3256 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3258 * Text track muxing for mp4
3259 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3260 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3261 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3262 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3263 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3264 * Improved ASF muxer
3266 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3267 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3268 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3271 * New audio equalizer filter
3272 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3273 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3274 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3275 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3278 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3279 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3280 with support for effects.
3281 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3282 - New filters can be streamed.
3283 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3284 - Centralized scaling and blending
3286 - "time", to display current time
3287 - "marq", to display a marquee
3290 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3291 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3292 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3293 * A few skins2 improvements
3294 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3295 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3296 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3297 * Improved CORBA control module
3300 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3301 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3302 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3305 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3306 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3307 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3310 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3311 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3312 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3313 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3314 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3317 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3320 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3321 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3324 * Server/client network synchronization module
3325 * VBrick streams fully supported
3326 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3330 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3331 --------------------------------
3334 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3335 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3336 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3337 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3340 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3341 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3342 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3343 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3344 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3345 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3346 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3349 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3350 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3351 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3352 * Improved directory access module.
3353 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3354 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3355 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3356 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3357 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3360 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3361 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3362 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3365 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3366 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3367 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3370 * Improved session announcement system.
3371 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3372 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3373 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3374 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3375 * Improved transrater.
3376 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3377 * New configuration system.
3378 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3381 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3382 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3383 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3384 * Supports scheduling.
3385 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3386 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3389 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3390 - Ability to embed video output.
3391 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3392 - Lots of improvements.
3393 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3394 - New design and set of icons.
3395 - Ability to embed video output.
3396 - Support for hotkeys.
3397 - Support for bookmarks.
3399 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3400 - Better hotkeys handling.
3403 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3404 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3405 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3406 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3409 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3410 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3411 * Improved Windows installer.
3417 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3418 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3421 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3422 ---------------------------------
3425 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3426 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3429 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3430 --------------------------------
3433 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3434 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3437 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3438 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3439 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3440 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3443 * Internal improvments
3444 * Improved import/export
3447 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3449 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3450 small and strange formats.
3452 * New MOD audio demux.
3453 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3454 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3455 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3456 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3459 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3460 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3461 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3467 * New opengl video output plugin.
3470 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3471 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3474 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3475 --------------------------------
3478 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3479 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3480 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3481 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3482 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3483 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3484 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3485 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3488 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3493 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3494 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3495 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3496 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3497 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3498 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3499 * Better Icecast support.
3500 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3501 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3504 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3505 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3506 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3507 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3508 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3509 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3510 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3513 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3514 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3515 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3516 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3517 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3518 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3519 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3520 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3521 * Preliminary RTP support.
3522 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3527 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3528 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3530 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3531 - Improvements and help in preferences
3532 - New streaming wizard
3533 - Revised Disc Open menu
3535 - Improvements of the standard pages
3536 - Support for new commands
3537 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3540 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3541 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3544 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3545 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3546 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3547 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3548 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3549 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3550 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3551 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3552 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3555 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3557 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3558 * Support for Panther.
3559 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3560 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3563 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3564 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3565 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3566 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3567 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3568 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3569 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3570 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3573 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3574 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3575 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3578 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3581 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3582 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3583 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3584 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3587 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3588 --------------------------------
3591 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3594 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3595 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3598 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3599 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3602 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3605 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3606 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3609 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3612 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3615 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3616 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3620 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3621 --------------------------------
3624 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3625 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3629 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3630 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3631 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3633 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3634 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3637 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3640 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3643 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3644 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3648 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3649 --------------------------------
3652 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3653 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3657 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3658 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3659 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3660 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3661 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3664 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3665 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3666 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3669 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3670 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3671 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3674 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3675 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3676 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3677 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3678 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3681 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3682 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3683 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3686 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3689 * Improved build system.
3690 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3691 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3692 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3693 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3696 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3697 --------------------------------
3700 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3703 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3704 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3705 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3706 * Video 4 Linux support
3707 * CD Digital Audio support
3708 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3711 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3712 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3713 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3714 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3717 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3718 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3719 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3720 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3721 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3722 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3723 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3726 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3727 * New HTTP remote control interface
3730 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3731 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3732 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3733 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3734 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3737 * New reset option for the preferences
3738 * You can set your language in the prefences
3739 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3740 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3741 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3742 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3745 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3746 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3747 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3750 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3751 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3752 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3753 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3754 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3755 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3756 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3757 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3758 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3759 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3762 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3763 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3764 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3765 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3766 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3767 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3768 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3771 * Interface localization
3772 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3773 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3774 * New full-featured Preferences window
3777 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3778 --------------------------------
3781 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3782 * support for skins at the interface level
3783 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3784 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3785 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3786 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3787 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3790 * fixed HTTP redirects
3791 * support for opening an entire directory
3792 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3793 * new video4linux access plug-in
3794 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3797 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3798 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3799 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3802 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3803 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3804 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3805 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3806 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3807 * new codec for raw I420 video
3808 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3811 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3812 (although it still misses some important features)
3813 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3816 * new HTTP output support
3817 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3818 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3821 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3824 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3827 * reorderable playlist
3828 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3829 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3830 * support for mono audio output devices
3831 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3832 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3833 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3834 * the messages window remembers more lines
3835 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3836 * http and ogg stream output options
3837 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3840 * new skinnable interface
3841 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3843 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3844 * support for FLAC audio format
3845 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3847 * network tab in the interface
3848 * "apply" handling in preferences
3851 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3852 ---------------------------------
3855 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3856 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3857 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3858 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3860 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3861 * DTS S/PDIF support
3864 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3865 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3866 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3867 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3870 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3871 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3874 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3877 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3880 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3882 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3883 * rc interface is now fully useable
3884 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3887 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3888 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3889 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3890 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3891 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3893 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3894 * support for mouse gestures
3895 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3898 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3899 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3902 * improved ID3 tag detection
3903 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3904 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3905 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3907 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3910 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3911 ---------------------------------
3914 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3915 English was set as the preferred language
3918 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3919 --------------------------------
3922 * new mouse gesture interface
3923 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3927 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3928 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3929 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3932 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3933 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3937 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3940 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3941 without the user consent
3944 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3946 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3947 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3948 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3951 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3952 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3953 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3954 * playlist enhancements
3955 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3956 * new step forward/step backward commands
3957 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3958 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3959 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3962 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3963 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3964 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3967 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3968 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3971 * native video output is working again
3972 * only commandline interface support
3973 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3976 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3977 --------------------------------
3980 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3981 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3982 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3983 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3984 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3985 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3986 and A/52 streams are supported)
3987 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3992 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3993 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3994 * VCD entry points support
3995 * VCD image file support
3998 * support for *.asf format
3999 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4000 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4001 * support for ogg encapsulation
4002 * support for raw DV format
4003 * support for *.wav format
4004 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4007 Stream discovery & playlists:
4008 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4009 * support for .m3u file format
4010 * support for .asx file format
4011 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4014 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4015 (only available with the .avi demux)
4016 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4017 * support for raw PCM data
4018 * support for Cinepak video codec
4019 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4020 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4021 * support for Xvid codec
4022 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4023 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4024 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4026 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4028 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4031 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4034 * new WxWindows interface
4035 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4036 device and the channels configuration
4037 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4038 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4039 format that VLC can play
4040 * new swedish translation
4041 * enhancements of the playlist window
4042 * new messages window to see debug info
4043 * fixed a few crashes
4046 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4047 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4048 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4049 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working