1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0:
5 --------------------------------
8 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
9 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
10 VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
11 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
12 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
14 3rd party libraries (contrib):
15 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
19 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
20 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
21 * Partial support for Windows Store App
23 * Add an audio fingerprinter
24 * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
27 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
28 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
29 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
30 * Support for Ulead DV audio
31 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
32 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
33 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
34 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
35 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
36 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
37 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
38 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
41 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
42 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
45 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
46 remove support for previous OS X releases
47 * Major improvements in DASH support
48 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
49 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
50 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
51 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
52 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
53 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
54 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
55 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
56 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
57 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation
60 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
61 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
62 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
63 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
64 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
65 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
66 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
67 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
68 * Support for more MJPEG streams
69 * Add support for liveleak streams
70 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
73 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
74 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
75 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
76 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
77 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
78 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
79 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
80 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
81 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
82 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
83 * New, simplified AudioUnit output module for iOS
86 * New remapping channel filter
87 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
88 * New VSXu visualization plugin
89 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
90 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
93 * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
94 * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
95 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
96 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
97 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
98 Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
99 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
100 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
103 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
104 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
105 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
106 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
107 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
108 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
109 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
112 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
113 * Options support for AVIO output module
114 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
115 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
116 * Livehttp stream encryption support
117 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
118 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
121 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
124 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
125 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
126 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
127 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
128 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
129 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
133 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
136 * Add support for multiple video outputs
137 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
139 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
140 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
141 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
142 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
143 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
144 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
145 VLC's internal volume level
146 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
148 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
149 selection and to manage the list of presets
150 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
151 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
152 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
153 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
154 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
155 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
156 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
157 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
158 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
159 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
161 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
162 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
163 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
164 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
165 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
166 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
167 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
168 3rd party applications
169 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
170 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
171 (system-wide settings)
172 * Add support for the Video Title option
173 * Add support for the Boss Key
174 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
175 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release.
178 * Partial support for Qt5.0
179 * Menus modifications and improvements
180 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
181 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
182 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
183 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
184 * EPG display fixes and improvements
185 * Add SD pixmap sources
186 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
187 * Display playlist total duration
188 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
190 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
191 * Remove language preference
192 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality.
197 * Extend sliders, offsets options
198 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
199 * Numerous fixes and improvements
200 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
203 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
204 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
205 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
206 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
207 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
208 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
209 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
210 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
211 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
212 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
215 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
216 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
217 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
218 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
219 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
220 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
222 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
223 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
224 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
225 * Broken crop video filter
227 * OSD parser and menu
228 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
229 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
230 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
231 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
235 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
236 --------------------------------
239 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
240 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
244 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
247 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
250 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
253 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
257 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
260 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
263 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
264 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
265 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
268 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
269 --------------------------------
272 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
275 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
278 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
279 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
280 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
281 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
282 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
283 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
286 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
287 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
288 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
289 * 3rd party codecs updates
292 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
293 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
294 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
295 in the advanced preferences panel
296 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
297 * Fix crash within the video output code
298 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
299 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
300 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
301 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
303 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
306 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
309 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
310 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
313 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
316 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
317 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
318 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
319 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
320 Dutch, Danish, translations
321 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
324 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
325 --------------------------------
328 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
331 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
332 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
333 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
336 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
337 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
338 * Fix koreus lua parser
339 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
340 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
341 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
342 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
345 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
346 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
349 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
352 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
353 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
354 * Fix Time counter UI look
355 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
358 * Fix https streaming
361 * Fix audio and video track selection:
362 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
363 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
366 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
367 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
368 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
369 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
370 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
373 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
374 --------------------------------
377 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
378 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
379 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
380 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
381 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
382 during playback on Mac OS X
385 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
386 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
387 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
390 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
391 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
392 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
393 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
394 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
397 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
398 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
399 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
400 * Support Youtube live streams
403 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
406 * Fix media info dialog update
407 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
408 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
409 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
410 * Fix album art display at start
413 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
414 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
415 * Fix menus display and behavior
416 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
417 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
418 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
419 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
420 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
421 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
422 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
425 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
426 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
427 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
428 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
429 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
430 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
431 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
432 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
433 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
436 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
437 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
438 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
439 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
440 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
443 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
444 --------------------------------
447 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
450 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
451 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
454 * Add GateKeeper support
455 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
456 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
457 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
460 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
463 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
464 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
465 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
466 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
467 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
470 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
471 --------------------------------
474 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
475 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
476 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
477 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
478 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
479 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
480 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
481 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
482 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
483 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
484 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
488 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
489 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
490 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
491 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
492 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
493 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
494 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
495 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
496 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
497 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
498 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
499 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
502 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
503 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
505 * Fix MP3 free format support
508 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
509 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
510 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
511 * Fix for DVB channels file support
512 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
515 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
516 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
518 Audio filters and output:
519 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
520 * Fix DirectSound device selection
521 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
522 * Do not apply volume in file output
523 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
524 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
527 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
528 the persistant media library
529 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
530 to the media library or the temporary playlist
531 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
532 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
533 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
534 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
535 press on the Play/Pause button
536 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
537 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
538 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
539 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
540 * Many Fullscreen fixes
541 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
542 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
543 Synchronization panel
544 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
545 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
546 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
547 * Fix crashes on exit
548 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
550 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
551 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
552 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
553 automatically reset on the first launch.
554 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
555 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
556 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
559 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
560 * Fixes for icecast SD
563 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
564 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
565 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
566 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
567 * Fix tags and file names display
568 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
571 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
572 * Fix for key events and focus loss
575 * Fix display of some buttons
576 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
577 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
580 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
581 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
582 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
585 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
586 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
587 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
588 Thai translations update
589 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
592 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
593 --------------------------------
596 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
597 * fix the samba module compilation
598 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
599 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
600 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
601 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
604 * Support for MXPEG files
605 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
606 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
609 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
610 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
611 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
614 * Fix ogm header creation
617 * limit spatializer filter distortions
618 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
621 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
622 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
623 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
624 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
627 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
630 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
631 * allow to hide the sidebar
632 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
633 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
634 * noticebly faster launch time
635 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
636 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
637 * improve track synchronization panel
638 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
639 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
642 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
643 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
644 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
645 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
648 * fix for menus display
649 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
650 * documentation update
653 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
654 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
657 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
658 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
659 * Update Jamendo selections
663 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
664 * fix a crash on VLM close
667 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
668 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
669 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
670 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
673 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
676 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
677 ---------------------------------
680 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
681 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
682 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
683 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
684 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
685 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
686 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
687 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
688 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
689 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
690 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
691 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
692 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
693 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
694 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
695 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
696 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
697 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
698 --http-crl (optional CRL).
699 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
700 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
701 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
702 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
703 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
704 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
705 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
707 Important changes for packagers:
708 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
709 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
710 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
711 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
712 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
713 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
714 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
715 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
716 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
717 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
720 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
721 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
722 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
723 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
724 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
725 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
726 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
729 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
730 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
731 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
732 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
733 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
734 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
735 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
736 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
737 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
738 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
739 * PulseAudio audio input support
740 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
741 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
742 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
743 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
744 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
745 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
746 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
747 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
750 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
751 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
752 are notably concerned.
753 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
754 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
755 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
756 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
757 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
758 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
759 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
760 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
761 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
762 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
763 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
764 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
765 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
766 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
767 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
770 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
771 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
772 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
773 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
774 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
775 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
776 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
777 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
778 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
779 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
780 * Improved support of tracker files
781 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
784 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
785 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
786 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
787 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
788 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
789 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
790 and important cleanups and optimisations
791 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
792 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
793 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
794 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
795 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
796 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
797 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
798 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
799 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
800 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
801 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
802 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
803 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
804 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
805 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
806 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
807 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
808 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
809 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
810 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
811 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
814 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
815 * New video output for iOS platform
816 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
817 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
818 * Various vmem improvements
819 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
820 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
821 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
822 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
823 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
824 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
826 Audio Output and Filters:
827 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
828 * New audio output in memory (amem)
829 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
830 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
831 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
832 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
833 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
834 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
835 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
836 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
839 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
840 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
841 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
842 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
843 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
844 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
845 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
846 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
847 * New anti-flickering filter
848 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
849 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
850 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
851 blackbox and customizable shadow.
852 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
853 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
854 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
857 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
858 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
859 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
860 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
861 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
862 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
863 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
864 * Major rework of VoD support
865 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
866 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
867 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
868 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
869 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
870 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
871 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
872 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
873 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
874 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
877 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
878 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
881 * New capabilities for libVLC:
882 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
883 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
884 list of available audio and video filters
885 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
886 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
887 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
890 * asademux, subsass: use libass
891 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
892 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
894 * upnp: use upnp_intel
895 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
896 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
897 * removal of the noise filter
898 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
899 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
900 removed in Growl's next release, too.
901 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
904 * Update of translations for most languages.
905 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
908 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
909 ----------------------------------
912 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
913 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
916 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
917 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
920 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
921 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
922 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
925 * Camtasia decoding fix.
928 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
929 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
932 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
935 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
936 ----------------------------------
939 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
940 including support for OS X Lion
941 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
942 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
945 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
948 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
949 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
950 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
953 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
956 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
957 ----------------------------------
960 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
961 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
964 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
965 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
966 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
967 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
968 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
970 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
971 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
972 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
974 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
975 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
978 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
981 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
984 * Fix quitting on Linux
985 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
989 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
992 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
995 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
996 ---------------------------------
998 Windows and Mac OS X:
999 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1002 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1003 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1006 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1009 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1012 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1014 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1015 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1017 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1018 * RTP output and XML export
1019 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1023 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1024 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1025 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1026 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1029 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1030 --------------------------------
1032 Windows and Mac OS X:
1033 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1036 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1039 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1040 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1041 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1042 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1043 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1044 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1047 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1048 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1052 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1053 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1054 * New Luganda Translation
1057 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1058 --------------------------------
1061 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1064 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1065 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1066 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1067 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1070 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1072 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1073 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1074 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1075 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1076 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1077 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1078 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1079 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1081 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1082 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1083 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1084 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1085 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1086 * Configure and build system improvements
1087 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1090 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1091 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1092 * New icelandic translation
1095 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1096 --------------------------------
1099 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1100 #234484 and #260719.
1103 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1104 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1105 and stability reasons
1108 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1112 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1115 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1116 ----------------------------------
1119 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1122 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1123 ---------------------------------
1126 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1127 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1128 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1129 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1132 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1135 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1136 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1137 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1138 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1141 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1142 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1143 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1145 Subtitles and renderer:
1146 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1147 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1148 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1149 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1150 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1153 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1154 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1155 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1156 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1159 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1160 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1162 Miscellaneous fixes:
1163 * KDE device solid actions
1165 * Transcode integer overflow
1166 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1167 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1170 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1171 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1172 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1175 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1176 ----------------------------------
1179 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1183 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1186 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1189 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1190 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1191 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1192 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1195 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1199 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1202 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1205 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1206 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1208 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1212 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1213 * Miscellaneous fixes
1216 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1217 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1218 French and Ukrainian
1219 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1220 * New Asturian translation
1223 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1224 ----------------------------------
1227 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1229 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1232 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1235 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1236 * Various fixes for Windows
1239 * New Armenian translation
1240 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1241 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1244 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1245 --------------------------------
1248 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1249 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1250 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1253 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1254 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1257 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1258 --------------------------------
1260 Access and demuxers:
1261 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1262 * fix for podcasts parsing
1263 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1266 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1267 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1270 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1271 * fix m3u playlists exports
1274 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1277 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1280 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1283 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1286 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1289 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1290 --------------------------------
1293 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1294 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1297 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1298 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1301 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1302 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1303 * fix console output encoding
1305 Interface and extensions:
1306 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1307 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1310 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1311 --------------------------------
1314 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1315 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1316 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1317 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1318 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1319 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1320 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1321 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1322 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1323 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1324 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1325 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1326 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1327 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1328 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1329 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1333 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1334 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1335 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1336 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1337 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1340 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1343 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1344 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1345 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1349 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1352 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1353 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1354 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1357 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1358 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1359 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1360 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1363 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1364 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1367 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1368 --------------------------------
1370 Important changes for users:
1371 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1372 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1374 Important changes for packagers:
1375 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1376 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1377 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1378 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1379 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1381 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1383 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1384 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1385 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1386 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1387 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1390 * Support for the sftp protocol
1391 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1392 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1393 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1394 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1395 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1398 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1399 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1400 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1402 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1403 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1404 * Invmem module improvements
1405 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1406 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1407 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1408 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1409 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1410 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1411 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1412 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1413 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1414 * Support for VP8 codec
1415 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1418 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1419 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1420 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1421 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1422 * Various EGP improvements
1423 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1424 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1427 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1428 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1429 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1430 * Podcast images are now displayed
1433 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1434 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1435 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1436 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1437 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1438 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1439 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1440 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1441 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1442 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1443 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1446 * New content extensions lua framework
1449 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1450 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1451 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1452 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1453 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1454 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1455 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1458 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1459 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1460 * Service discovery based on libudev
1461 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1464 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1465 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1466 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1467 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1468 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1469 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1470 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1473 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1474 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1475 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1478 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1480 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1481 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1484 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1487 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1488 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1489 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1490 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1491 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1492 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1493 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1496 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1497 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1500 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1501 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1502 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1506 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1507 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1508 * Improved Solaris port
1511 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1512 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1515 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1516 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1517 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1518 * transrate: broken since too long
1519 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1520 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1521 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1522 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1523 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1524 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1525 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1526 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1527 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1528 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1529 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1530 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1531 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1532 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1535 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1536 --------------------------------
1539 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1541 Decoders/Packetizers:
1542 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1545 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1546 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1547 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1548 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1549 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1552 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1553 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1556 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1557 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1560 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1561 and Walloon translations updated
1562 * Sinhala translation started
1565 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1566 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1569 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1570 --------------------------------
1573 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1574 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1577 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1580 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1581 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1584 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1585 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1586 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1587 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1590 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1591 --------------------------------
1594 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1595 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1598 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1599 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1602 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1603 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1606 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1609 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1610 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1613 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1614 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1617 * New Walloon translation
1618 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1621 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1622 --------------------------------
1625 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1626 regressions in most popular drivers
1627 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1630 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1631 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1632 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1635 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1636 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1639 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1640 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1641 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1642 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1643 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1646 * New udev module for linux
1649 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1652 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1655 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1656 --------------------------------
1659 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1660 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1661 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1664 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1665 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1668 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1669 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1672 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1675 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1676 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1677 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1678 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1681 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1682 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1683 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1684 - no support for Goom and SDL
1685 - limited text rendering support
1686 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1689 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1690 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1691 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1692 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1693 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1694 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1695 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1696 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1697 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1701 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1704 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1707 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1708 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1709 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1710 Arabic and French translation updates
1713 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1714 --------------------------------
1717 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1718 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1719 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1720 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1721 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1722 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1725 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1726 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1727 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1730 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1731 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1732 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1735 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1738 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1739 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1742 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1743 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1744 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1745 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1746 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1747 * Fix various crashes
1750 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1752 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1756 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1757 ---------------------------------
1761 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1762 See 'Access:' for more info.
1763 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1766 * Instantaneous pausing
1767 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1768 * Finer speed control
1769 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1770 * Timeshift for most medias
1771 * RTSP trickplay support
1772 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1775 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1776 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1777 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1778 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1779 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1780 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1781 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1782 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1783 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1784 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1787 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1788 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1789 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1790 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1791 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1792 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1793 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1796 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1797 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1800 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1801 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1802 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1803 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1804 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1805 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1806 * DVB scanning on linux
1807 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1808 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1809 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1810 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1811 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1812 * MTP device access on Unix
1813 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1814 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1817 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1818 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1819 Windows and Mac OS X.
1822 * Export the playlist in HTML
1823 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1824 * Better metadata handling and reading
1826 Linux/Windows interface:
1827 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1828 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1829 * Recently played items list
1830 * Interface toolbar customizations
1831 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1832 - More menus actions
1833 - Finer speed slider
1834 - Improvements on many dialogs
1835 - New dialog for plugins listing
1836 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1837 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1838 * Better integration in GTK environments
1841 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1842 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1843 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1844 * Additional usability improvements
1847 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1848 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1849 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1850 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1851 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1854 * New Maemo port with:
1855 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1856 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1859 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1862 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1863 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1864 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1865 * Support for latest iSight models
1868 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1869 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1872 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1873 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1874 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1875 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1876 The old image video output has been removed.
1877 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1878 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1881 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1889 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1890 --------------------------------------
1896 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1897 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1898 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1899 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1900 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1901 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1902 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1904 Various fixes to the following modules:
1907 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1908 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1909 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1911 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1916 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1917 ---------------------------------
1920 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1921 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1924 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1925 ---------------------------------
1928 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1931 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1934 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1935 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1936 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1937 main controller window.
1938 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1941 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1946 * Updates of other localizations
1949 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1950 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1951 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1952 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1953 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1956 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1957 ---------------------------------
1960 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1962 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1965 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1966 --------------------------------
1971 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1972 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1975 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1976 --------------------------------
1978 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1979 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1982 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1985 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1986 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1989 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1990 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1993 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1994 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1995 * Various fixed in playlist
1998 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2001 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2004 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2005 ------------------------------------
2007 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2008 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2011 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2012 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2013 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2016 * Stability fix for the video output.
2019 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2020 --------------------------------
2023 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2024 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2025 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2026 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2027 * Fixed update system bugs
2028 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2031 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2032 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2033 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2034 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2035 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2036 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2037 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2038 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2039 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2040 modern Mac OS X versions
2043 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2044 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2046 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2047 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2050 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2051 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2052 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2053 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2054 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2055 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2058 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2059 --------------------------------
2061 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2062 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2063 * Multiple bugfixes.
2066 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2067 --------------------------------
2069 * Multiple bug fixes.
2072 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2073 ---------------------------------
2077 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2078 recent to work correctly
2079 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2080 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2081 edit the ".hosts" file.
2082 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2083 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2084 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2085 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2086 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2087 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2088 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2089 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2090 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2091 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2092 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2093 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2094 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2095 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2096 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2097 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2098 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2099 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2100 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2101 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2102 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2103 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2104 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2105 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2106 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2107 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2108 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2109 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2110 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2111 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2112 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2113 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2114 and postproc modules.
2115 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2116 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2117 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2118 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2120 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2121 filter. For example:
2122 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2123 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2125 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2126 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2132 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2134 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2135 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2138 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2139 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2141 * Shoutcast TV listings
2142 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2144 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2145 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2147 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2150 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2151 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2152 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2153 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2154 * JACK audio input support
2155 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2156 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2157 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2158 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2159 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2160 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2161 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2162 (available as a separate download).
2163 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2164 * RTMP input support
2165 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2166 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2167 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2169 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2170 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2173 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2174 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2175 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2176 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2178 * APEv1/2 tags support
2179 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2180 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2182 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2183 * TiVo Series 2 support
2184 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2189 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2190 * Flash Screen Video support
2191 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2192 * DosBox Capture support
2193 * Karl Morton's Video support
2194 * limited atrac3 support
2196 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2197 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2198 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2199 * H.264 PAFF support
2200 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2201 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2202 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2203 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2204 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2207 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2208 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2209 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2210 * AQTitle subtitles support
2211 * MKV USF subtitles support
2212 * HTML-based subtitles support
2213 * MPSub subtitles support
2214 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2215 * MPL2 subtitles support
2216 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2217 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2218 * Realtext subtitle support
2219 * DKS subtitle support
2220 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2221 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2224 * Flash Screen Video support
2225 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2227 Video outputs and filters:
2228 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2229 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2230 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2231 * New puzzle video output filter
2232 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2233 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2235 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2236 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2237 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2238 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2239 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2240 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2241 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2242 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2243 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2244 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2245 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2246 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2247 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2248 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2250 Audio outputs and filters:
2251 * Replay gain support
2252 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2253 new scaletempo audio filter)
2254 * New spatializer audio filter
2255 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2258 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2259 * New RTP payload formats:
2260 * Speex voice audio codec
2261 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2262 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2263 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2264 * DCCP transport for RTP
2265 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2270 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2271 end-user suitable way.
2272 * Improved user interaction
2273 * Improved mouse gestures
2274 * Vastly improved Update checker
2275 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2277 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2278 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2280 * Improved video output features
2281 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2282 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2283 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2284 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2285 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2287 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2288 if libncursesw is available.
2289 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2290 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2291 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2293 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2294 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2295 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2296 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2297 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2298 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2299 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2300 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2303 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2304 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2305 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2308 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2309 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2310 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2311 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2312 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2313 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2316 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2317 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2327 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2328 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2329 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2332 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2333 ----------------------------------
2336 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2339 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2340 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2341 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2342 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2343 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2344 * Updated Polish translation
2347 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2348 ----------------------------------
2351 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2352 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2353 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2356 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2357 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2358 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2359 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2360 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2361 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2362 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2363 to an unexpected application termination
2364 * New Serbian translation
2365 * Updated Romanian translation
2368 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2369 ----------------------------------
2372 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2373 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2374 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2375 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2376 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2377 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2378 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2379 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2382 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2383 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2384 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2385 * Fixed AAC resampling
2386 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2387 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2390 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2391 ----------------------------------
2394 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2395 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2396 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2397 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2398 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2401 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2402 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2403 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2404 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2405 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2408 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2409 ----------------------------------
2412 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2413 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2416 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2417 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2418 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2419 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2421 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2425 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2428 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2431 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2434 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2437 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2438 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2439 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2440 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2441 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2443 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2444 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2445 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2446 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2449 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2452 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2453 ----------------------------------
2456 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2457 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2458 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2460 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2461 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2463 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2464 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2467 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2469 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2470 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2471 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2472 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2473 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2474 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2475 two different movies
2476 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2477 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2478 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2481 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2484 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2485 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2486 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2487 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2490 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2491 ----------------------------------
2493 Various bugfixes, notably:
2494 * Windows Vista compatibility
2495 * Cropping in Direct3D
2496 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2497 * RSS filter string overflow
2499 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2501 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2502 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2505 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2506 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2509 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2512 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2515 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2518 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2519 ----------------------------------
2521 Various bugfixes, notably:
2522 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2523 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2524 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2525 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2526 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2527 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2530 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2531 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2534 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2536 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2537 * Diverse usability improvements
2538 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2539 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2540 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2543 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2544 ---------------------------------
2546 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2547 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2550 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2553 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2554 --------------------------------
2557 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2560 * Support for RTSP authentication
2561 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2562 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2563 * ATSC support for DVB input
2564 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2565 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2566 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2569 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2570 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2571 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2572 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2573 * Matroska WavPack support
2574 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2575 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2576 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2579 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2580 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2581 * Improved libcaca support
2585 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2586 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2588 * Systray support in skins
2590 * Support for Apple Remote control
2591 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2592 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2593 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2594 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2596 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2599 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2600 Windows 9x/ME users:
2601 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2602 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2603 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2604 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2605 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2607 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2608 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2617 * Updates to the libvlc API
2618 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2621 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2622 --------------------------------
2625 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2626 * Support for downloading updates
2630 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2631 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2632 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2633 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2635 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2636 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2637 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2640 * Cook (Real audio) support
2642 Playlist / Services discovery:
2643 * XSPF playlist support
2645 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2648 * New JACK audio output
2651 * New video filters:
2652 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2653 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2654 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2655 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2656 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2657 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2660 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2663 * System to inform the user and request information
2664 - HTTP authentication
2668 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2669 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2670 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2673 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2674 - Improved playlist handling
2675 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2677 - Embedded Video output
2678 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2679 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2680 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2681 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2682 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2684 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2685 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2688 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2691 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2692 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2693 * Growl "Now playing" support
2696 * Ability to log to syslog
2697 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2700 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2702 * A bit more automatic testing
2705 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2706 ---------------------------------
2709 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2710 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2713 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2714 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2717 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2720 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2721 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2727 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2730 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2731 --------------------------------
2734 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2738 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2739 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2740 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2743 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2744 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2745 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2746 * GnomeVFS input module
2747 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2748 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2751 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2752 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2753 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2756 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2757 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2763 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2764 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2767 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2768 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2769 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2772 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2774 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2775 - New extended controls panel
2776 - New bookmarks window
2777 - Fixed playlist sorting
2778 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2780 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2781 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2782 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2783 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2787 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2788 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2790 - Include macro to include other files
2794 * Should now work outside IE as well
2797 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2800 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2801 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2804 The following languages were added:
2808 * Simplified Chinese
2809 The following languages were re-added:
2813 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2814 --------------------------------
2817 * Rewrite of the playlist
2819 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2820 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2821 * Preferences improvements:
2822 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2823 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2825 * Core image manipulation support
2826 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2827 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2828 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2829 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2830 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2831 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2832 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2833 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2834 * Access filter architecture
2835 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2836 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2840 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2841 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2842 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2843 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2844 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2845 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2846 * Massive Matroska improvements
2847 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2849 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2850 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2851 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2852 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2853 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2855 Decoders / Encoders:
2856 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2857 * PNG decoder/encoder
2858 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2859 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2862 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2865 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2866 * Brand new SAP module
2867 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2868 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2869 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2870 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2871 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2872 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2876 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2879 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2880 * Image file video output (png)
2881 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2882 * Improvements to wall video filter
2883 * Support for font color and opacity
2889 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2890 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2891 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2895 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2896 - Improved preferences
2897 - Improvements to the wizard
2898 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2900 - Redesigned playlist
2901 - Improved preferences
2903 - Support for multiple actions
2906 - Support for the new playlist system
2908 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2911 * Screensaver disabling fix
2912 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2913 * Support for no-decoration windows
2916 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2917 * The OpenGL video output is back
2918 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2919 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2920 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2921 is not yet available in the new module
2922 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2925 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2934 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2937 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2940 The following languages were added:
2946 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2947 --------------------------------
2950 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2951 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2954 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2955 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2956 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2959 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2962 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2965 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2968 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2969 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2970 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2974 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2976 * Support of playlist group announcement
2979 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2980 --------------------------------
2983 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2984 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2985 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2986 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2987 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2988 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2991 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2992 (Stream your desktop)
2993 * Improved DVD support:
2994 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2995 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2996 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2997 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2998 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2999 (selection of titles/chapters).
3002 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3003 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3004 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3005 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3006 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3007 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3008 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3009 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3010 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3011 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3014 * G.726 audio support
3015 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3016 * MPEG-4 text support
3017 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3018 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3019 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3023 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3024 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3025 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3026 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3027 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3028 * DVB subtitles encoder
3029 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3030 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3032 * Text track muxing for mp4
3033 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3034 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3035 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3036 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3037 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3038 * Improved ASF muxer
3040 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3041 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3042 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3045 * New audio equalizer filter
3046 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3047 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3048 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3049 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3052 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3053 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3054 with support for effects.
3055 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3056 - New filters can be streamed.
3057 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3058 - Centralized scaling and blending
3060 - "time", to display current time
3061 - "marq", to display a marquee
3064 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3065 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3066 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3067 * A few skins2 improvements
3068 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3069 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3070 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3071 * Improved CORBA control module
3074 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3075 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3076 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3079 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3080 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3081 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3084 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3085 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3086 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3087 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3088 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3091 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3094 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3095 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3098 * Server/client network synchronization module
3099 * VBrick streams fully supported
3100 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3104 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3105 --------------------------------
3108 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3109 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3110 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3111 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3114 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3115 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3116 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3117 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3118 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3119 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3120 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3123 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3124 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3125 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3126 * Improved directory access module.
3127 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3128 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3129 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3130 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3131 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3134 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3135 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3136 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3139 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3140 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3141 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3144 * Improved session announcement system.
3145 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3146 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3147 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3148 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3149 * Improved transrater.
3150 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3151 * New configuration system.
3152 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3155 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3156 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3157 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3158 * Supports scheduling.
3159 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3160 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3163 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3164 - Ability to embed video output.
3165 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3166 - Lots of improvements.
3167 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3168 - New design and set of icons.
3169 - Ability to embed video output.
3170 - Support for hotkeys.
3171 - Support for bookmarks.
3173 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3174 - Better hotkeys handling.
3177 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3178 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3179 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3180 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3183 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3184 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3185 * Improved Windows installer.
3191 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3192 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3195 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3196 ---------------------------------
3199 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3200 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3203 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3204 --------------------------------
3207 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3208 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3211 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3212 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3213 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3214 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3217 * Internal improvments
3218 * Improved import/export
3221 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3223 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3224 small and strange formats.
3226 * New MOD audio demux.
3227 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3228 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3229 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3230 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3233 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3234 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3235 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3241 * New opengl video output plugin.
3244 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3245 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3248 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3249 --------------------------------
3252 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3253 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3254 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3255 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3256 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3257 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3258 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3259 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3262 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3267 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3268 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3269 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3270 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3271 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3272 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3273 * Better Icecast support.
3274 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3275 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3278 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3279 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3280 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3281 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3282 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3283 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3284 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3287 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3288 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3289 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3290 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3291 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3292 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3293 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3294 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3295 * Preliminary RTP support.
3296 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3301 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3302 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3304 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3305 - Improvements and help in preferences
3306 - New streaming wizard
3307 - Revised Disc Open menu
3309 - Improvements of the standard pages
3310 - Support for new commands
3311 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3314 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3315 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3318 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3319 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3320 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3321 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3322 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3323 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3324 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3325 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3326 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3329 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3331 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3332 * Support for Panther.
3333 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3334 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3337 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3338 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3339 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3340 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3341 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3342 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3343 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3344 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3347 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3348 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3349 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3352 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3355 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3356 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3357 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3358 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3361 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3362 --------------------------------
3365 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3368 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3369 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3372 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3373 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3376 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3379 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3380 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3383 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3386 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3389 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3390 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3394 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3395 --------------------------------
3398 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3399 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3403 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3404 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3405 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3407 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3408 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3411 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3414 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3417 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3418 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3422 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3423 --------------------------------
3426 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3427 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3431 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3432 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3433 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3434 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3435 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3438 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3439 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3440 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3443 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3444 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3445 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3448 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3449 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3450 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3451 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3452 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3455 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3456 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3457 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3460 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3463 * Improved build system.
3464 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3465 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3466 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3467 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3470 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3471 --------------------------------
3474 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3477 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3478 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3479 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3480 * Video 4 Linux support
3481 * CD Digital Audio support
3482 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3485 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3486 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3487 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3488 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3491 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3492 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3493 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3494 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3495 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3496 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3497 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3500 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3501 * New HTTP remote control interface
3504 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3505 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3506 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3507 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3508 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3511 * New reset option for the preferences
3512 * You can set your language in the prefences
3513 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3514 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3515 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3516 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3519 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3520 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3521 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3524 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3525 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3526 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3527 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3528 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3529 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3530 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3531 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3532 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3533 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3536 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3537 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3538 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3539 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3540 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3541 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3542 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3545 * Interface localization
3546 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3547 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3548 * New full-featured Preferences window
3551 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3552 --------------------------------
3555 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3556 * support for skins at the interface level
3557 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3558 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3559 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3560 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3561 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3564 * fixed HTTP redirects
3565 * support for opening an entire directory
3566 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3567 * new video4linux access plug-in
3568 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3571 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3572 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3573 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3576 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3577 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3578 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3579 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3580 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3581 * new codec for raw I420 video
3582 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3585 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3586 (although it still misses some important features)
3587 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3590 * new HTTP output support
3591 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3592 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3595 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3598 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3601 * reorderable playlist
3602 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3603 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3604 * support for mono audio output devices
3605 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3606 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3607 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3608 * the messages window remembers more lines
3609 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3610 * http and ogg stream output options
3611 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3614 * new skinnable interface
3615 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3617 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3618 * support for FLAC audio format
3619 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3621 * network tab in the interface
3622 * "apply" handling in preferences
3625 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3626 ---------------------------------
3629 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3630 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3631 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3632 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3634 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3635 * DTS S/PDIF support
3638 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3639 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3640 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3641 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3644 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3645 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3648 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3651 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3654 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3656 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3657 * rc interface is now fully useable
3658 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3661 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3662 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3663 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3664 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3665 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3667 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3668 * support for mouse gestures
3669 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3672 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3673 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3676 * improved ID3 tag detection
3677 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3678 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3679 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3681 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3684 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3685 ---------------------------------
3688 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3689 English was set as the preferred language
3692 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3693 --------------------------------
3696 * new mouse gesture interface
3697 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3701 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3702 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3703 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3706 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3707 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3711 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3714 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3715 without the user consent
3718 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3720 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3721 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3722 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3725 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3726 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3727 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3728 * playlist enhancements
3729 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3730 * new step forward/step backward commands
3731 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3732 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3733 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3736 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3737 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3738 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3741 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3742 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3745 * native video output is working again
3746 * only commandline interface support
3747 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3750 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3751 --------------------------------
3754 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3755 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3756 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3757 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3758 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3759 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3760 and A/52 streams are supported)
3761 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3766 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3767 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3768 * VCD entry points support
3769 * VCD image file support
3772 * support for *.asf format
3773 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3774 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3775 * support for ogg encapsulation
3776 * support for raw DV format
3777 * support for *.wav format
3778 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3781 Stream discovery & playlists:
3782 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3783 * support for .m3u file format
3784 * support for .asx file format
3785 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3788 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3789 (only available with the .avi demux)
3790 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3791 * support for raw PCM data
3792 * support for Cinepak video codec
3793 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3794 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3795 * support for Xvid codec
3796 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3797 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3798 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3800 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3802 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3805 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3808 * new WxWindows interface
3809 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3810 device and the channels configuration
3811 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3812 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3813 format that VLC can play
3814 * new swedish translation
3815 * enhancements of the playlist window
3816 * new messages window to see debug info
3817 * fixed a few crashes
3820 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3821 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3822 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3823 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working