3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet)
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
12 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
13 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
14 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
15 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
16 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
17 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
19 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
25 * Vastly improved playlist support:
26 * Media library support
28 * Shoutcast TV listings
29 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
32 * Support for UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for UDP-Raw and RTP
35 * VP60/VP61 codecs support
38 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splitted into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
39 and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
40 * New puzzle video output filter
41 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
42 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a video)
46 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
48 * Improved user interaction
51 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
52 --------------------------------
55 * Shoutcast TV listings support
58 * Support for RTSP authentication
59 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
60 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
61 * ATSC support for DVB input
62 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
63 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
64 * Improved support for Flash Video files
67 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
68 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
69 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
70 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
71 * Matroska WavPack support
72 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
73 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
74 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
77 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
78 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
79 * Improved libcaca support
83 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
84 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
86 * Systray support in skins
88 * Support for Apple Remote control
89 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
90 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
91 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
92 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
94 * Notifications using notification-daemon
97 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
99 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
100 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
101 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
102 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
103 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
105 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
106 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
115 * Updates to the libvlc API
116 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
120 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
121 ---------------------------------
124 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
125 * Support for downloading updates
129 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
130 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
131 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
132 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
134 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
135 * Improved subtitles encoding support
136 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
139 * Cook (Real audio) support
141 Playlist / Services discovery:
142 * XSPF playlist support
144 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
147 * New JACK audio output
151 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
152 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
153 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
154 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
155 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
156 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
159 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
162 * System to inform the user and request information
163 - HTTP authentication
167 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
168 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
169 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
172 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
173 - Improved playlist handling
174 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
176 - Embedded Video output
177 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
178 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
179 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
180 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
181 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
183 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
184 - A bunch of new RPN functions
187 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
190 * Mac-Intel compatibility
191 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
192 * Growl "Now playing" support
195 * Ability to log to syslog
196 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
199 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
201 * A bit more automatic testing
203 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
204 ---------------------------------
207 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
208 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
211 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
212 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
215 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
218 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
219 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
225 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
227 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
228 --------------------------------
231 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
235 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
236 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
237 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
240 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
241 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
242 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
243 * GnomeVFS input module
244 * Support for RTP packet reordering
245 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
248 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
249 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
250 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
253 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
254 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
260 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
261 Mixer and Dolby Surround
264 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
265 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
266 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
269 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
271 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
272 - New extended controls panel
273 - New bookmarks window
274 - Fixed playlist sorting
275 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
277 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
278 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
279 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
280 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
284 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
285 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
287 - Include macro to include other files
291 * Should now work outside IE as well
294 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
297 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
298 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
301 The following languages were added:
306 The following languages were re-added:
309 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
310 --------------------------------
313 * Rewrite of the playlist
315 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
316 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
317 * Preferences improvements:
318 - New organization, designed to improve usability
319 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
321 * Core image manipulation support
322 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
323 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
324 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
325 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
326 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
327 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
328 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
329 now separated by ':' instead of ','
330 * Access filter architecture
331 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
332 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
336 * Support for SOCKS proxy
337 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
338 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
339 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
340 * Better support for Kasenna streams
341 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
342 * Massive Matroska improvements
343 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
345 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
346 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
347 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
348 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
349 * Support for FTP over IPv6
352 * Dirac decoder and encoder
353 * PNG decoder/encoder
354 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
355 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
358 * New Record and Timeshift filters
361 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
362 * Brand new SAP module
363 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
364 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
365 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
366 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
367 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
368 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
372 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
375 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
376 * Image file video output (png)
377 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
378 * Improvements to wall video filter
379 * Support for font color and opacity
385 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
386 - Seeking support in VoD streams
387 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
391 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
392 - Improved preferences
393 - Improvements to the wizard
394 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
396 - Redesigned playlist
397 - Improved preferences
399 - Support for multiple actions
402 - Support for the new playlist system
404 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
407 * Screensaver disabling fix
408 * DirectShow tuner configuration
409 * Support for no-decoration windows
412 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
413 * The OpenGL video output is back
414 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
415 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
416 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
417 is not yet available in the new module
418 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
421 * Support for single-buffered overlay
430 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
433 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
436 The following languages were added:
442 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
443 -----------------------------------------------------
446 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
447 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
450 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
451 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
452 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
455 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
458 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
461 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
464 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
465 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
466 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
470 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
472 * Support of playlist group announcement
474 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
475 -----------------------------------------------------
478 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
479 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
480 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
481 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
482 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
483 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
486 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
487 (Stream your desktop)
488 * Improved DVD support:
489 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
490 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
491 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
492 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
493 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
494 (selection of titles/chapters).
497 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
498 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
499 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
500 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
501 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
502 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
503 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
504 * Improved Ogg demuxer
505 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
506 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
509 * G.726 audio support
510 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
511 * MPEG-4 text support
512 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
513 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
514 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
518 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
519 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
520 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
521 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
522 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
523 * DVB subtitles encoder
524 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
525 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
527 * Text track muxing for mp4
528 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
529 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
530 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
531 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
532 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
535 * H.263 RTP streaming support
536 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
537 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
540 * New audio equalizer filter
541 * Very trivial volume normalizer
542 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
543 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
544 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
547 * Roku HD1000 Video output
548 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
549 with support for effects.
550 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
551 - New filters can be streamed.
552 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
553 - Centralized scaling and blending
555 - "time", to display current time
556 - "marq", to display a marquee
559 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
560 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
561 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
562 * A few skins2 improvements
563 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
564 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
565 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
566 * Improved CORBA control module
569 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
570 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
571 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
574 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
575 * Experimental SVG rendering module
576 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
579 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
580 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
581 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
582 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
583 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
586 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
589 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
590 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
593 * Server/client network synchronization module
594 * VBrick streams fully supported
595 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
598 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
599 --------------------------------
602 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
603 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
604 * Improved HTTP daemon.
605 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
608 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
609 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
610 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
611 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
612 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
613 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
614 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
617 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
618 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
619 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
620 * Improved directory access module.
621 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
622 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
623 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
624 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
625 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
628 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
629 * mmsh streaming fixes.
630 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
633 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
634 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
635 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
638 * Improved session announcement system.
639 * Minimize threads usage by default.
640 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
641 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
642 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
643 * Improved transrater.
644 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
645 * New configuration system.
646 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
649 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
650 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
651 * Supports live streams and VoD.
652 * Supports scheduling.
653 * Telnet interface for vlm.
654 * HTTP interface for vlm.
657 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
658 - Ability to embed video output.
659 - Support for bitmap fonts.
660 - Lots of improvements.
661 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
662 - New design and set of icons.
663 - Ability to embed video output.
664 - Support for hotkeys.
665 - Support for bookmarks.
667 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
668 - Better hotkeys handling.
671 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
672 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
673 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
674 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
677 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
678 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
679 * Improved Windows installer.
685 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
686 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
688 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
689 ---------------------------------
692 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
693 * Playing MOD files is working now.
696 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
697 ---------------------------------
700 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
701 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
704 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
705 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
706 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
707 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
710 * Internal improvments
711 * Improved import/export
714 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
716 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
717 small and strange formats.
719 * New MOD audio demux.
720 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
721 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
722 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
723 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
726 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
727 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
728 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
734 * New opengl video output plugin.
737 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
738 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
740 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
741 ---------------------------------
744 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
745 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
746 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
747 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
748 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
749 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
750 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
751 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
754 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
759 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
760 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
761 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
762 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
763 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
764 * Reworked DVB tuning.
765 * Better Icecast support.
766 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
767 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
770 * Support for Theora video encoding.
771 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
772 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
773 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
774 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
775 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
776 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
779 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
780 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
781 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
782 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
783 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
784 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
785 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
786 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
787 * Preliminary RTP support.
788 * Fixes to SAP announces.
793 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
794 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
796 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
797 - Improvements and help in preferences
798 - New streaming wizard
799 - Revised Disc Open menu
801 - Improvements of the standard pages
802 - Support for new commands
803 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
806 * Many fixes to the SAP module
807 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
810 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
811 * Text subtitles autodetection.
812 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
813 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
814 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
815 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
816 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
817 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
818 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
821 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
823 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
824 * Support for Panther.
825 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
826 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
829 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
830 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
831 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
832 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
833 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
834 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
835 * Multimonitor support (untested).
836 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
839 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
840 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
841 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
844 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
847 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
848 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
849 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
850 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
852 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
853 ---------------------------------
856 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
859 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
860 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
863 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
864 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
867 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
870 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
871 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
874 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
877 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
880 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
881 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
884 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
885 ---------------------------------
888 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
889 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
893 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
894 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
895 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
897 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
898 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
901 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
904 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
907 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
908 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
911 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
912 ---------------------------------
915 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
916 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
920 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
921 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
922 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
923 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
924 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
927 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
928 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
929 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
932 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
933 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
934 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
937 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
938 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
939 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
940 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
941 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
944 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
945 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
946 * A new CORBA control plugin.
949 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
952 * Improved build system.
953 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
954 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
955 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
956 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
959 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
960 ---------------------------------
963 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
966 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
967 * Fixed large file support on Windows
968 * Video 4 Linux support
969 * CD Digital Audio support
970 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
973 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
974 * Support for OpenDML avi files
975 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
976 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
979 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
980 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
981 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
982 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
983 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
984 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
985 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
988 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
989 * New HTTP remote control interface
992 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
993 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
994 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
995 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
998 * New reset option for the preferences
999 * You can set your language in the prefences
1000 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1001 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1002 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1003 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1006 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1007 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1008 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1011 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1012 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1013 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1014 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1015 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1016 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1017 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1018 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1019 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1020 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1023 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1024 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1025 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1026 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1027 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1028 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1029 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1032 * Interface localization
1033 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1034 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1035 * New full-featured Preferences window
1037 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1038 ---------------------------------
1041 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1042 * support for skins at the interface level
1043 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1044 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1045 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1046 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1047 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1050 * fixed HTTP redirects
1051 * support for opening an entire directory
1052 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1053 * new video4linux access plug-in
1054 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1057 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1058 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1059 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1062 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1063 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1064 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1065 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1066 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1067 * new codec for raw I420 video
1068 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1071 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1072 (although it still misses some important features)
1073 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1076 * new HTTP output support
1077 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1078 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1081 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1084 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1087 * reorderable playlist
1088 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1089 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1090 * support for mono audio output devices
1091 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1092 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1093 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1094 * the messages window remembers more lines
1095 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1096 * http and ogg stream output options
1097 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1100 * new skinnable interface
1101 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1103 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1104 * support for FLAC audio format
1105 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1107 * network tab in the interface
1108 * "apply" handling in preferences
1111 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1112 ---------------------------------
1115 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1116 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1117 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1118 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1120 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1121 * DTS S/PDIF support
1124 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1125 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1126 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1127 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1130 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1131 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1134 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1137 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1140 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1142 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1143 * rc interface is now fully useable
1144 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1147 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1148 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1149 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1150 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1151 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1153 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1154 * support for mouse gestures
1155 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1158 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1159 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1162 * improved ID3 tag detection
1163 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1164 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1165 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1167 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1170 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1171 ---------------------------------
1174 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1175 English was set as the preferred language
1178 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1179 --------------------------------
1182 * new mouse gesture interface
1183 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1187 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1188 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1189 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1192 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1193 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1197 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1200 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1201 without the user consent
1204 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1206 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1207 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1208 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1211 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1212 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1213 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1214 * playlist enhancements
1215 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1216 * new step forward/step backward commands
1217 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1218 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1219 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1222 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1223 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1224 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1227 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1228 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1231 * native video output is working again
1232 * only commandline interface support
1233 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1236 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1237 --------------------------------
1240 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1241 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1242 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1243 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1244 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1245 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1246 and A/52 streams are supported)
1247 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1252 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1253 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1254 * VCD entry points support
1255 * VCD image file support
1258 * support for *.asf format
1259 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1260 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1261 * support for ogg encapsulation
1262 * support for raw DV format
1263 * support for *.wav format
1264 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1267 Stream discovery & playlists:
1268 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1269 * support for .m3u file format
1270 * support for .asx file format
1271 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1274 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1275 (only available with the .avi demux)
1276 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1277 * support for raw PCM data
1278 * support for Cinepak video codec
1279 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1280 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1281 * support for Xvid codec
1282 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1283 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1284 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1286 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1288 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1291 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1294 * new WxWindows interface
1295 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1296 device and the channels configuration
1297 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1298 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1299 format that VLC can play
1300 * new swedish translation
1301 * enhancements of the playlist window
1302 * new messages window to see debug info
1303 * fixed a few crashes
1306 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1307 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1308 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1309 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working