1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
9 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
10 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
11 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
12 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
13 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
14 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
15 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
17 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
18 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
22 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
23 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
24 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
25 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
26 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
27 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
30 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
31 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
32 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
33 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
34 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
35 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
36 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
37 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
38 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
39 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
40 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
41 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
42 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
43 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
44 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
47 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
48 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
49 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
50 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
53 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
54 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
55 * Ogg seeking improvements
56 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
57 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
58 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
61 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
62 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
63 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
64 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
65 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
66 and important cleanups and optimisations
67 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
68 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
69 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
70 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
71 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
72 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
75 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
76 * New video output for iOS platform
77 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
78 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
79 * Various vmem improvements
80 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
82 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
85 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
86 * New audio output in memory (amem)
87 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
88 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
91 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
92 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
93 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
94 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
95 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
96 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
97 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
98 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
99 * New anti-flickering filter
102 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
105 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
106 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
107 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
108 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
109 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
110 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
111 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
112 * Major rework of VoD support
113 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
114 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
115 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
116 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
117 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
118 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
119 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
120 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
121 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
124 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
125 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
128 * New capabilities for libVLC:
129 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
130 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
131 list of available audio and video filters
132 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
133 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
136 * asademux: use libass only
137 * subsass: use libass
138 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
139 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
141 * upnp: use upnp_intel
142 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
143 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
146 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
147 ---------------------------------
149 Windows and Mac OS X:
150 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
153 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
154 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
157 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
160 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
163 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
165 Miscellaneous fixes in:
166 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
168 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
169 * RTP output and XML export
170 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
174 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
175 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
176 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
177 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
180 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
181 --------------------------------
183 Windows and Mac OS X:
184 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
187 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
190 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
191 * Improve Apple Remote handling
192 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
193 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
194 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
195 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
198 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
199 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
203 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
204 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
205 * New Luganda Translation
208 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
209 --------------------------------
212 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
215 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
216 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
217 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
218 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
221 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
223 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
224 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
225 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
226 * mp4 demuxer improvements
227 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
228 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
229 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
230 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
232 Miscellaneous fixes in:
233 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
234 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
235 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
236 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
237 * Configure and build system improvements
238 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
241 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
242 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
243 * New icelandic translation
246 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
247 --------------------------------
250 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
254 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
255 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
256 and stability reasons
259 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
263 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
266 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
267 ----------------------------------
270 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
273 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
274 ---------------------------------
277 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
278 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
279 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
280 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
283 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
286 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
287 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
288 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
289 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
292 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
293 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
294 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
296 Subtitles and renderer:
297 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
298 * Mark more freetype options as safe
299 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
300 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
301 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
304 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
305 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
306 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
307 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
310 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
311 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
314 * KDE device solid actions
316 * Transcode integer overflow
317 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
318 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
321 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
322 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
323 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
326 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
327 ----------------------------------
330 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
334 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
337 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
340 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
341 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
342 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
343 * Taglib thread-safety fix
346 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
350 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
353 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
356 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
357 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
359 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
363 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
364 * Miscellaneous fixes
367 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
368 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
370 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
371 * New Asturian translation
374 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
375 ----------------------------------
378 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
380 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
383 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
386 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
387 * Various fixes for Windows
390 * New Armenian translation
391 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
392 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
395 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
396 --------------------------------
399 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
401 * Fix folders opening from the interface
404 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
405 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
408 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
409 --------------------------------
412 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
413 * fix for podcasts parsing
414 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
417 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
418 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
421 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
422 * fix m3u playlists exports
425 * fix video autoresize behaviour
428 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
431 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
434 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
437 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
440 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
441 --------------------------------
444 * Avformat fps displaying fix
445 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
448 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
449 of mono streams, especially on Windows
452 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
453 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
454 * fix console output encoding
456 Interface and extensions:
457 * Youtube and other scripts updates
458 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
461 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
462 --------------------------------
465 * New capabilities for libVLC:
466 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
467 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
468 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
469 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
470 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
471 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
472 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
473 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
474 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
475 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
476 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
477 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
478 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
479 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
480 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
484 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
485 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
486 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
487 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
488 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
491 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
494 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
495 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
496 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
500 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
503 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
504 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
505 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
508 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
509 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
510 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
511 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
514 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
515 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
518 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
519 --------------------------------
521 Important changes for users:
522 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
523 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
525 Important changes for packagers:
526 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
527 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
528 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
529 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
530 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
532 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
534 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
535 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
536 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
537 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
538 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
541 * Support for the sftp protocol
542 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
543 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
544 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
545 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
546 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
549 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
550 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
551 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
553 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
554 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
555 * Invmem module improvements
556 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
557 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
558 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
559 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
560 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
561 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
562 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
563 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
564 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
565 * Support for VP8 codec
566 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
569 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
570 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
571 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
572 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
573 * Various EGP improvements
574 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
575 * Metadata and cover art improvements
578 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
579 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
580 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
581 * Podcast images are now displayed
584 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
585 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
586 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
587 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
588 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
589 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
590 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
591 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
592 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
593 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
594 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
597 * New content extensions lua framework
600 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
601 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
602 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
603 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
604 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
605 * NEON assembly audio converter module
606 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
609 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
610 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
611 * Service discovery based on libudev
612 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
615 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
616 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
617 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
618 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
619 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
620 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
621 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
624 * New smem module, streaming to memory
625 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
626 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
629 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
631 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
632 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
635 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
638 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
639 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
640 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
641 by Andy Matuschak et al.
642 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
643 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
644 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
647 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
648 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
651 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
652 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
653 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
657 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
658 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
659 * Improved Solaris port
662 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
663 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
666 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
667 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
668 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
669 * transrate: broken since too long
670 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
671 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
672 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
673 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
674 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
675 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
676 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
677 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
678 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
679 * cddax: use cdda instead.
680 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
681 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
682 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
683 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
686 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
687 --------------------------------
690 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
692 Decoders/Packetizers:
693 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
696 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
697 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
698 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
699 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
700 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
703 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
704 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
707 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
708 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
711 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
712 and Walloon translations updated
713 * Sinhala translation started
716 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
717 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
720 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
721 --------------------------------
724 * SubRip extra styles improvements
725 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
728 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
731 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
732 increase performance and fix x264 issues
735 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
736 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
737 Russian, Slovak translation updates
738 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
741 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
742 --------------------------------
745 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
746 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
749 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
750 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
753 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
754 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
757 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
760 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
761 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
764 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
765 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
768 * New Walloon translation
769 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
772 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
773 --------------------------------
776 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
777 regressions in most popular drivers
778 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
781 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
782 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
783 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
786 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
787 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
790 * Update for appletrailers lua script
791 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
792 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
793 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
794 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
797 * New udev module for linux
800 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
803 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
806 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
807 --------------------------------
810 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
811 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
812 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
815 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
816 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
819 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
820 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
823 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
826 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
827 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
828 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
829 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
832 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
833 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
834 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
835 - no support for Goom and SDL
836 - limited text rendering support
837 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
840 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
841 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
842 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
843 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
844 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
845 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
846 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
847 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
848 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
852 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
855 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
858 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
859 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
860 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
861 Arabic and French translation updates
864 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
865 --------------------------------
868 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
869 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
870 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
871 * Fix Dailymotion access script
872 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
873 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
876 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
877 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
880 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
881 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
882 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
885 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
888 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
889 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
892 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
893 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
894 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
895 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
896 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
897 * Fix various crashes
900 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
902 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
905 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
906 ---------------------------------
910 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
911 See 'Access:' for more info.
912 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
915 * Instantaneous pausing
916 * Frame-by-Frame playback
917 * Finer speed control
918 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
919 * Timeshift for most medias
920 * RTSP trickplay support
921 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
924 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
925 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
926 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
927 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
928 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
929 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
930 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
931 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
932 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
933 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
936 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
937 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
938 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
939 * Metadata for mod files are supported
940 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
941 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
942 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
945 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
946 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
949 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
950 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
951 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
952 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
953 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
954 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
955 * DVB scanning on linux
956 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
957 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
958 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
959 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
960 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
961 * MTP device access on Unix
962 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
963 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
966 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
967 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
968 Windows and Mac OS X.
971 * Export the playlist in HTML
972 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
973 * Better metadata handling and reading
975 Linux/Windows interface:
976 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
977 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
978 * Recently played items list
979 * Interface toolbar customizations
980 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
983 - Improvements on many dialogs
984 - New dialog for plugins listing
985 - Fixed-size mode for videos
986 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
987 * Better integration in GTK environments
990 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
991 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
992 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
993 * Additional usability improvements
996 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
997 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
998 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
999 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1000 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1003 * New Maemo port with:
1004 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1005 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1008 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1011 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1012 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1013 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1014 * Support for latest iSight models
1017 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1018 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1021 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1022 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1023 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1024 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1025 The old image video output has been removed.
1026 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1027 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1030 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1038 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1039 --------------------------------------
1045 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1046 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1047 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1048 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1049 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1050 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1051 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1053 Various fixes to the following modules:
1056 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1057 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1058 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1060 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1065 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1066 ---------------------------------
1069 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1070 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1073 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1074 ---------------------------------
1077 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1080 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1083 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1084 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1085 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1086 main controller window.
1087 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1090 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1095 * Updates of other localizations
1098 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1099 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1100 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1101 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1102 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1105 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1106 ---------------------------------
1109 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1111 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1114 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1115 --------------------------------
1120 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1121 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1124 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1125 --------------------------------
1127 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1128 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1131 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1134 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1135 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1138 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1139 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1142 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1143 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1144 * Various fixed in playlist
1147 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1150 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1153 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1154 ------------------------------------
1156 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1157 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1160 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1161 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1162 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1165 * Stability fix for the video output.
1168 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1169 --------------------------------
1172 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1173 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1174 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1175 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1176 * Fixed update system bugs
1177 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1180 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1181 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1182 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1183 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1184 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1185 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1186 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1187 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1188 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1189 modern Mac OS X versions
1192 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1193 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1195 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1196 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1199 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1200 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1201 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1202 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1203 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1204 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1207 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1208 --------------------------------
1210 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1211 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1212 * Multiple bugfixes.
1215 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1216 --------------------------------
1218 * Multiple bug fixes.
1221 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1222 ---------------------------------
1226 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1227 recent to work correctly
1228 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1229 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1230 edit the ".hosts" file.
1231 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1232 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1233 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1234 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1235 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1236 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1237 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1238 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1239 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1240 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1241 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1242 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1243 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1244 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1245 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1246 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1247 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1248 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1249 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1250 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1251 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1252 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1253 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1254 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1255 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1256 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1257 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1258 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1259 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1260 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1261 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1262 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1263 and postproc modules.
1264 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1265 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1266 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1267 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1269 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1270 filter. For example:
1271 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1272 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1274 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1275 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1281 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1283 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1284 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1287 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1288 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1290 * Shoutcast TV listings
1291 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1293 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1294 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1296 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1299 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1300 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1301 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1302 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1303 * JACK audio input support
1304 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1305 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1306 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1307 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1308 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1309 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1310 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1311 (available as a separate download).
1312 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1313 * RTMP input support
1314 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1315 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1316 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1318 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1319 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1322 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1323 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1324 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1325 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1327 * APEv1/2 tags support
1328 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1329 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1331 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1332 * TiVo Series 2 support
1333 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1338 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1339 * Flash Screen Video support
1340 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1341 * DosBox Capture support
1342 * Karl Morton's Video support
1343 * limited atrac3 support
1345 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1346 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1347 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1348 * H.264 PAFF support
1349 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1350 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1351 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1352 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1353 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1356 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1357 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1358 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1359 * AQTitle subtitles support
1360 * MKV USF subtitles support
1361 * HTML-based subtitles support
1362 * MPSub subtitles support
1363 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1364 * MPL2 subtitles support
1365 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1366 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1367 * Realtext subtitle support
1368 * DKS subtitle support
1369 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1370 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1373 * Flash Screen Video support
1374 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1376 Video outputs and filters:
1377 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1378 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1379 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1380 * New puzzle video output filter
1381 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1382 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1384 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1385 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1386 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1387 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1388 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1389 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1390 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1391 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1392 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1393 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1394 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1395 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1396 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1397 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1399 Audio outputs and filters:
1400 * Replay gain support
1401 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1402 new scaletempo audio filter)
1403 * New spatializer audio filter
1404 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1407 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1408 * New RTP payload formats:
1409 * Speex voice audio codec
1410 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1411 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1412 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1413 * DCCP transport for RTP
1414 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1419 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1420 end-user suitable way.
1421 * Improved user interaction
1422 * Improved mouse gestures
1423 * Vastly improved Update checker
1424 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1426 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1427 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1429 * Improved video output features
1430 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1431 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1432 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1433 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1434 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1436 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1437 if libncursesw is available.
1438 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1439 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1440 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1442 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1443 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1444 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1445 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1446 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1447 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1448 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1449 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1452 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1453 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1454 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1457 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1458 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1459 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1460 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1461 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1462 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1465 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1466 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1476 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1477 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1478 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1481 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1482 ----------------------------------
1485 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1488 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1489 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1490 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1491 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1492 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1493 * Updated Polish translation
1496 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1497 ----------------------------------
1500 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1501 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1502 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1505 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1506 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1507 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1508 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1509 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1510 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1511 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1512 to an unexpected application termination
1513 * New Serbian translation
1514 * Updated Romanian translation
1517 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1518 ----------------------------------
1521 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1522 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1523 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1524 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1525 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1526 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1527 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1528 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1531 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1532 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1533 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1534 * Fixed AAC resampling
1535 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1536 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1539 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1540 ----------------------------------
1543 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1544 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1545 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1546 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1547 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1550 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1551 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1552 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1553 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1554 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1557 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1558 ----------------------------------
1561 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1562 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1565 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1566 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1567 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1568 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1570 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1574 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1577 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1580 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1583 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1586 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1587 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1588 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1589 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1590 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1592 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1593 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1594 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1595 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1598 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1601 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1602 ----------------------------------
1605 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1606 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1607 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1609 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1610 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1612 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1613 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1616 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1618 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1619 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1620 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1621 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1622 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1623 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1624 two different movies
1625 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1626 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1627 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1630 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1633 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1634 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1635 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1636 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1639 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1640 ----------------------------------
1642 Various bugfixes, notably:
1643 * Windows Vista compatibility
1644 * Cropping in Direct3D
1645 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1646 * RSS filter string overflow
1648 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1650 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1651 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1654 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1655 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1658 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1661 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1664 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1667 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1668 ----------------------------------
1670 Various bugfixes, notably:
1671 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1672 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1673 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1674 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1675 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1676 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1679 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1680 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1683 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1685 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1686 * Diverse usability improvements
1687 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1688 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1689 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1692 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1693 ---------------------------------
1695 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1696 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1699 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1702 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1703 --------------------------------
1706 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1709 * Support for RTSP authentication
1710 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1711 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1712 * ATSC support for DVB input
1713 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1714 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1715 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1718 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1719 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1720 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1721 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1722 * Matroska WavPack support
1723 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1724 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1725 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1728 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1729 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1730 * Improved libcaca support
1734 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1735 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1737 * Systray support in skins
1739 * Support for Apple Remote control
1740 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1741 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1742 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1743 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1745 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1748 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1749 Windows 9x/ME users:
1750 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1751 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1752 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1753 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1754 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1756 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1757 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1766 * Updates to the libvlc API
1767 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1770 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1771 --------------------------------
1774 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1775 * Support for downloading updates
1779 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1780 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1781 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1782 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1784 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1785 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1786 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1789 * Cook (Real audio) support
1791 Playlist / Services discovery:
1792 * XSPF playlist support
1794 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1797 * New JACK audio output
1800 * New video filters:
1801 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1802 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1803 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1804 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1805 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1806 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1809 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1812 * System to inform the user and request information
1813 - HTTP authentication
1817 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1818 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1819 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1822 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1823 - Improved playlist handling
1824 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1826 - Embedded Video output
1827 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1828 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1829 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1830 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1831 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1833 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1834 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1837 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1840 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1841 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1842 * Growl "Now playing" support
1845 * Ability to log to syslog
1846 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1849 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1851 * A bit more automatic testing
1854 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1855 ---------------------------------
1858 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1859 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1862 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1863 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1866 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1869 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1870 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1876 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1879 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1880 --------------------------------
1883 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1887 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1888 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1889 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1892 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1893 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1894 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1895 * GnomeVFS input module
1896 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1897 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1900 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1901 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1902 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1905 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1906 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1912 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1913 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1916 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1917 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1918 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1921 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1923 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1924 - New extended controls panel
1925 - New bookmarks window
1926 - Fixed playlist sorting
1927 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1929 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1930 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1931 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1932 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1936 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1937 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1939 - Include macro to include other files
1943 * Should now work outside IE as well
1946 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1949 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1950 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1953 The following languages were added:
1957 * Simplified Chinese
1958 The following languages were re-added:
1962 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1963 --------------------------------
1966 * Rewrite of the playlist
1968 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1969 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1970 * Preferences improvements:
1971 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1972 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1974 * Core image manipulation support
1975 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1976 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1977 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1978 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1979 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1980 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1981 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1982 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1983 * Access filter architecture
1984 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1985 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1989 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1990 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1991 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1992 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1993 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1994 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1995 * Massive Matroska improvements
1996 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1998 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1999 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2000 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2001 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2002 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2004 Decoders / Encoders:
2005 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2006 * PNG decoder/encoder
2007 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2008 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2011 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2014 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2015 * Brand new SAP module
2016 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2017 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2018 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2019 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2020 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2021 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2025 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2028 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2029 * Image file video output (png)
2030 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2031 * Improvements to wall video filter
2032 * Support for font color and opacity
2038 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2039 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2040 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2044 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2045 - Improved preferences
2046 - Improvements to the wizard
2047 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2049 - Redesigned playlist
2050 - Improved preferences
2052 - Support for multiple actions
2055 - Support for the new playlist system
2057 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2060 * Screensaver disabling fix
2061 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2062 * Support for no-decoration windows
2065 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2066 * The OpenGL video output is back
2067 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2068 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2069 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2070 is not yet available in the new module
2071 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2074 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2083 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2086 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2089 The following languages were added:
2095 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2096 --------------------------------
2099 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2100 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2103 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2104 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2105 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2108 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2111 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2114 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2117 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2118 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2119 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2123 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2125 * Support of playlist group announcement
2128 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2129 --------------------------------
2132 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2133 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2134 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2135 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2136 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2137 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2140 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2141 (Stream your desktop)
2142 * Improved DVD support:
2143 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2144 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2145 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2146 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2147 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2148 (selection of titles/chapters).
2151 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2152 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2153 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2154 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2155 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2156 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2157 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2158 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2159 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2160 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2163 * G.726 audio support
2164 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2165 * MPEG-4 text support
2166 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2167 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2168 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2172 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2173 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2174 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2175 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2176 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2177 * DVB subtitles encoder
2178 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2179 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2181 * Text track muxing for mp4
2182 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2183 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2184 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2185 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2186 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2187 * Improved ASF muxer
2189 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2190 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2191 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2194 * New audio equalizer filter
2195 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2196 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2197 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2198 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2201 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2202 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2203 with support for effects.
2204 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2205 - New filters can be streamed.
2206 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2207 - Centralized scaling and blending
2209 - "time", to display current time
2210 - "marq", to display a marquee
2213 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2214 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2215 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2216 * A few skins2 improvements
2217 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2218 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2219 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2220 * Improved CORBA control module
2223 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2224 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2225 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2228 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2229 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2230 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2233 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2234 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2235 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2236 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2237 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2240 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2243 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2244 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2247 * Server/client network synchronization module
2248 * VBrick streams fully supported
2249 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2253 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2254 --------------------------------
2257 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2258 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2259 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2260 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2263 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2264 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2265 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2266 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2267 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2268 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2269 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2272 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2273 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2274 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2275 * Improved directory access module.
2276 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2277 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2278 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2279 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2280 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2283 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2284 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2285 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2288 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2289 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2290 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2293 * Improved session announcement system.
2294 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2295 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2296 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2297 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2298 * Improved transrater.
2299 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2300 * New configuration system.
2301 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2304 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2305 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2306 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2307 * Supports scheduling.
2308 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2309 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2312 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2313 - Ability to embed video output.
2314 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2315 - Lots of improvements.
2316 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2317 - New design and set of icons.
2318 - Ability to embed video output.
2319 - Support for hotkeys.
2320 - Support for bookmarks.
2322 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2323 - Better hotkeys handling.
2326 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2327 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2328 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2329 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2332 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2333 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2334 * Improved Windows installer.
2340 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2341 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2344 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2345 ---------------------------------
2348 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2349 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2352 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2353 --------------------------------
2356 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2357 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2360 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2361 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2362 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2363 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2366 * Internal improvments
2367 * Improved import/export
2370 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2372 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2373 small and strange formats.
2375 * New MOD audio demux.
2376 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2377 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2378 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2379 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2382 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2383 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2384 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2390 * New opengl video output plugin.
2393 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2394 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2397 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2398 --------------------------------
2401 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2402 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2403 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2404 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2405 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2406 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2407 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2408 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2411 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2416 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2417 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2418 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2419 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2420 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2421 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2422 * Better Icecast support.
2423 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2424 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2427 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2428 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2429 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2430 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2431 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2432 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2433 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2436 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2437 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2438 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2439 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2440 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2441 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2442 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2443 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2444 * Preliminary RTP support.
2445 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2450 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2451 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2453 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2454 - Improvements and help in preferences
2455 - New streaming wizard
2456 - Revised Disc Open menu
2458 - Improvements of the standard pages
2459 - Support for new commands
2460 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2463 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2464 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2467 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2468 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2469 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2470 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2471 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2472 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2473 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2474 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2475 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2478 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2480 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2481 * Support for Panther.
2482 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2483 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2486 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2487 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2488 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2489 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2490 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2491 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2492 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2493 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2496 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2497 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2498 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2501 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2504 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2505 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2506 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2507 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2510 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2511 --------------------------------
2514 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2517 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2518 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2521 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2522 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2525 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2528 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2529 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2532 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2535 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2538 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2539 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2543 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2544 --------------------------------
2547 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2548 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2552 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2553 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2554 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2556 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2557 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2560 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2563 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2566 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2567 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2571 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2572 --------------------------------
2575 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2576 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2580 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2581 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2582 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2583 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2584 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2587 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2588 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2589 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2592 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2593 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2594 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2597 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2598 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2599 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2600 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2601 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2604 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2605 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2606 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2609 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2612 * Improved build system.
2613 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2614 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2615 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2616 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2619 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2620 --------------------------------
2623 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2626 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2627 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2628 * Video 4 Linux support
2629 * CD Digital Audio support
2630 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2633 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2634 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2635 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2636 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2639 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2640 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2641 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2642 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2643 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2644 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2645 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2648 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2649 * New HTTP remote control interface
2652 * 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.
2653 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2654 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2655 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2658 * New reset option for the preferences
2659 * You can set your language in the prefences
2660 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2661 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2662 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2663 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2666 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2667 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2668 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2671 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2672 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2673 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2674 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2675 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2676 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2677 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2678 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2679 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2680 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2683 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2684 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2685 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2686 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2687 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2688 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2689 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2692 * Interface localization
2693 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2694 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2695 * New full-featured Preferences window
2698 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2699 --------------------------------
2702 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2703 * support for skins at the interface level
2704 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2705 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2706 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2707 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2708 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2711 * fixed HTTP redirects
2712 * support for opening an entire directory
2713 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2714 * new video4linux access plug-in
2715 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2718 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2719 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2720 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2723 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2724 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2725 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2726 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2727 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2728 * new codec for raw I420 video
2729 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2732 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2733 (although it still misses some important features)
2734 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2737 * new HTTP output support
2738 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2739 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2742 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2745 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2748 * reorderable playlist
2749 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2750 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2751 * support for mono audio output devices
2752 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2753 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2754 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2755 * the messages window remembers more lines
2756 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2757 * http and ogg stream output options
2758 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2761 * new skinnable interface
2762 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2764 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2765 * support for FLAC audio format
2766 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2768 * network tab in the interface
2769 * "apply" handling in preferences
2772 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2773 ---------------------------------
2776 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2777 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2778 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2779 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2781 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2782 * DTS S/PDIF support
2785 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2786 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2787 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2788 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2791 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2792 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2795 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2798 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2801 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2803 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2804 * rc interface is now fully useable
2805 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2808 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2809 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2810 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2811 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2812 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2814 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2815 * support for mouse gestures
2816 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2819 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2820 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2823 * improved ID3 tag detection
2824 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2825 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2826 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2828 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2831 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2832 ---------------------------------
2835 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2836 English was set as the preferred language
2839 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2840 --------------------------------
2843 * new mouse gesture interface
2844 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2848 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2849 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2850 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2853 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2854 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2858 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2861 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2862 without the user consent
2865 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2867 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2868 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2869 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2872 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2873 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2874 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2875 * playlist enhancements
2876 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2877 * new step forward/step backward commands
2878 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2879 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2880 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2883 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2884 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2885 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2888 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2889 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2892 * native video output is working again
2893 * only commandline interface support
2894 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2897 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2898 --------------------------------
2901 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2902 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2903 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2904 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2905 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2906 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2907 and A/52 streams are supported)
2908 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2913 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2914 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2915 * VCD entry points support
2916 * VCD image file support
2919 * support for *.asf format
2920 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2921 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2922 * support for ogg encapsulation
2923 * support for raw DV format
2924 * support for *.wav format
2925 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2928 Stream discovery & playlists:
2929 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2930 * support for .m3u file format
2931 * support for .asx file format
2932 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2935 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2936 (only available with the .avi demux)
2937 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2938 * support for raw PCM data
2939 * support for Cinepak video codec
2940 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2941 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2942 * support for Xvid codec
2943 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2944 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2945 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2947 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2949 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2952 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2955 * new WxWindows interface
2956 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2957 device and the channels configuration
2958 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2959 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2960 format that VLC can play
2961 * new swedish translation
2962 * enhancements of the playlist window
2963 * new messages window to see debug info
2964 * fixed a few crashes
2967 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2968 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2969 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2970 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working