1 Changes between 0.9.9 and 1.0.0-pre2:
2 -------------------------------------
6 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
7 See 'Access:' for more info.
10 * Instantaneous pausing
11 * Frame-by-Frame playback
13 * Timeshift for most medias
14 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
15 * RTSP trickplay support
19 * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b)
22 * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice)
23 * Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
24 * WMA v1/2 fixed point integer
25 * Close Caption under SCTE-20 standard
28 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
29 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
30 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
31 * Metadata for mod files are supported
32 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
35 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
36 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
39 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
40 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
41 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
42 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
43 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
44 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
45 * DVB scanning on linux
46 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
47 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form zip://file.zip|file.avi to specify the file)
48 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
49 * MTP device access on Unix
50 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
51 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
54 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
55 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
59 * Export the playlist in HTML
60 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
61 * Better metadata handling and reading
63 Linux/Windows interface:
64 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
65 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
66 * Recently played items list
67 * Interface toolbar customizations
68 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
71 - Improvements on many dialogs
72 - New dialog for plugins listing
73 - Fixed-size mode for videos
74 - Better teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
75 * Better integration in GTK environments
78 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
79 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
80 * Easy addition of Subtitles through the Video menu
81 * Additional usability improvements
84 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
85 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
86 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
87 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
88 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
91 * New Maemo port with:
92 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
93 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
96 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
99 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
100 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
103 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
104 * Surround support for PulseAudio
107 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
108 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
109 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
110 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
111 The old image video output has been removed.
112 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
113 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
116 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
118 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
119 ---------------------------------
122 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
125 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
128 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
129 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
130 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
131 main controller window.
132 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
135 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
140 * Updates of other localizations
143 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
144 * Lots of small bugfixes.
145 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
146 * Telnet fixes on Windows
147 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
149 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
150 ---------------------------------
153 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
155 Bunch of small bugfixes.
158 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
159 --------------------------------
164 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
165 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
168 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
169 --------------------------------
171 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
172 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
175 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
178 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
179 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
182 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
183 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
186 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
187 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
188 * Various fixed in playlist
191 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
194 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
197 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
198 ------------------------------------
200 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
201 * Fixes several memory leaks.
204 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
205 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
206 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
209 * Stability fix for the video output.
212 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
213 --------------------------------
216 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
217 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
218 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
219 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
220 * Fixed update system bugs
221 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
224 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
225 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
226 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
227 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
228 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
229 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
230 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
231 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
232 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
233 modern Mac OS X versions
236 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
237 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
239 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
240 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
243 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
244 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
245 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
246 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
247 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
248 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
251 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
252 --------------------------------
254 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
255 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
259 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
260 --------------------------------
262 * Multiple bug fixes.
265 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
266 ---------------------------------
270 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
271 recent to work correctly
272 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
273 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
274 edit the ".hosts" file.
275 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
276 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
277 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
278 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
279 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
280 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
281 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
282 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
283 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
284 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
285 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
286 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
287 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
288 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
289 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
290 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
291 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
292 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
293 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
294 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
295 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
296 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
297 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
298 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
299 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
300 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
301 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
302 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
303 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
304 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
305 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
306 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
307 and postproc modules.
308 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
309 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
310 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
311 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
313 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
315 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
316 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
318 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
319 * Glide video output module has been removed.
325 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
327 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
328 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
331 * Vastly improved playlist support:
332 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
334 * Shoutcast TV listings
335 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
337 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
338 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
340 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
343 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
344 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
345 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
346 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
347 * JACK audio input support
348 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
349 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
350 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
351 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
352 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
353 * Experimental EyeTV access module
354 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
355 (available as a separate download).
356 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
358 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
359 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
360 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
362 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
363 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
366 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
367 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
368 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
369 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
371 * APEv1/2 tags support
372 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
373 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
375 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
376 * TiVo Series 2 support
377 * CD+G karaoke Files support
382 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
383 * Flash Screen Video support
384 * CamStudio Screen Video support
385 * DosBox Capture support
386 * Karl Morton's Video support
387 * limited atrac3 support
389 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
390 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
391 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
393 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
394 * NellyMoser ASAO support
395 * APE (Monkey audio) support
396 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
397 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
400 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
401 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
402 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
403 * AQTitle subtitles support
404 * MKV USF subtitles support
405 * HTML-based subtitles support
406 * MPSub subtitles support
407 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
408 * MPL2 subtitles support
409 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
410 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
411 * Realtext subtitle support
412 * DKS subtitle support
413 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
414 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
417 * Flash Screen Video support
418 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
420 Video outputs and filters:
421 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
422 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
423 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
424 * New puzzle video output filter
425 * Re-written motion detection video filter
426 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
428 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
429 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
430 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
431 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
432 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
433 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
434 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
435 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
436 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
437 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
438 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
439 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
440 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
441 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
443 Audio outputs and filters:
444 * Replay gain support
445 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
446 new scaletempo audio filter)
447 * New spatializer audio filter
448 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
451 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
452 * New RTP payload formats:
453 * Speex voice audio codec
454 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
455 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
456 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
457 * DCCP transport for RTP
458 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
463 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
464 end-user suitable way.
465 * Improved user interaction
466 * Improved mouse gestures
467 * Vastly improved Update checker
468 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
470 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
471 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
473 * Improved video output features
474 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
475 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
476 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
477 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
478 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
480 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
481 if libncursesw is available.
482 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
483 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
484 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
486 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
487 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
488 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
489 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
490 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
491 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
492 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
493 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
496 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
497 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
498 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
501 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
502 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
503 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
504 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
505 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
506 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
509 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
510 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
520 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
521 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
522 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
525 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
526 ----------------------------------
529 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
532 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
533 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
534 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
535 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
536 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
537 * Updated Polish translation
540 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
541 ----------------------------------
544 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
545 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
546 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
549 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
550 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
551 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
552 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
553 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
554 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
555 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
556 to an unexpected application termination
557 * New Serbian translation
558 * Updated Romanian translation
561 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
562 ----------------------------------
565 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
566 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
567 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
568 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
569 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
570 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
571 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
572 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
575 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
576 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
577 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
578 * Fixed AAC resampling
579 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
580 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
583 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
584 ----------------------------------
587 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
588 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
589 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
590 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
591 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
594 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
595 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
596 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
597 * Close MMS access on network timeout
598 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
601 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
602 ----------------------------------
605 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
606 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
609 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
610 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
611 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
612 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
614 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
618 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
621 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
624 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
627 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
630 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
631 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
632 encoding on multi-cpu systems
633 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
634 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
636 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
637 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
638 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
639 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
642 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
645 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
646 ----------------------------------
649 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
650 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
651 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
653 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
654 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
656 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
657 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
660 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
662 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
663 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
664 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
665 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
666 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
667 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
669 * Support for current Ogg file formats
670 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
671 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
674 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
677 * The automatic updating facility was removed
678 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
679 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
680 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
683 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
684 ----------------------------------
686 Various bugfixes, notably:
687 * Windows Vista compatibility
688 * Cropping in Direct3D
689 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
690 * RSS filter string overflow
692 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
694 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
695 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
698 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
699 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
702 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
705 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
708 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
711 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
712 ----------------------------------
714 Various bugfixes, notably:
715 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
716 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
717 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
718 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
719 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
720 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
723 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
724 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
727 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
729 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
730 * Diverse usability improvements
731 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
732 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
733 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
736 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
737 ---------------------------------
740 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
743 * Fullscreen controller improvements
746 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
747 --------------------------------
750 * Shoutcast TV listings support
753 * Support for RTSP authentication
754 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
755 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
756 * ATSC support for DVB input
757 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
758 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
759 * Improved support for Flash Video files
762 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
763 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
764 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
765 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
766 * Matroska WavPack support
767 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
768 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
769 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
772 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
773 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
774 * Improved libcaca support
778 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
779 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
781 * Systray support in skins
783 * Support for Apple Remote control
784 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
785 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
786 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
787 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
789 * Notifications using notification-daemon
792 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
794 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
795 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
796 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
797 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
798 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
800 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
801 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
810 * Updates to the libvlc API
811 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
814 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
815 --------------------------------
818 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
819 * Support for downloading updates
823 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
824 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
825 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
826 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
828 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
829 * Improved subtitles encoding support
830 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
833 * Cook (Real audio) support
835 Playlist / Services discovery:
836 * XSPF playlist support
838 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
841 * New JACK audio output
845 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
846 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
847 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
848 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
849 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
850 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
853 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
856 * System to inform the user and request information
857 - HTTP authentication
861 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
862 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
863 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
866 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
867 - Improved playlist handling
868 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
870 - Embedded Video output
871 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
872 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
873 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
874 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
875 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
877 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
878 - A bunch of new RPN functions
881 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
884 * Mac-Intel compatibility
885 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
886 * Growl "Now playing" support
889 * Ability to log to syslog
890 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
893 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
895 * A bit more automatic testing
898 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
899 ---------------------------------
902 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
903 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
906 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
907 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
910 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
913 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
914 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
920 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
923 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
924 --------------------------------
927 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
931 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
932 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
933 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
936 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
937 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
938 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
939 * GnomeVFS input module
940 * Support for RTP packet reordering
941 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
944 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
945 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
946 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
949 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
950 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
956 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
957 Mixer and Dolby Surround
960 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
961 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
962 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
965 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
967 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
968 - New extended controls panel
969 - New bookmarks window
970 - Fixed playlist sorting
971 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
973 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
974 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
975 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
976 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
980 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
981 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
983 - Include macro to include other files
987 * Should now work outside IE as well
990 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
993 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
994 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
997 The following languages were added:
1001 * Simplified Chinese
1002 The following languages were re-added:
1006 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1007 --------------------------------
1010 * Rewrite of the playlist
1012 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1013 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1014 * Preferences improvements:
1015 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1016 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1018 * Core image manipulation support
1019 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1020 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1021 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1022 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1023 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1024 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1025 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1026 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1027 * Access filter architecture
1028 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1029 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1033 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1034 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1035 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1036 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1037 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1038 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1039 * Massive Matroska improvements
1040 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1042 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1043 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1044 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1045 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1046 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1048 Decoders / Encoders:
1049 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1050 * PNG decoder/encoder
1051 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1052 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1055 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1058 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1059 * Brand new SAP module
1060 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1061 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1062 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1063 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1064 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1065 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1069 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1072 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1073 * Image file video output (png)
1074 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1075 * Improvements to wall video filter
1076 * Support for font color and opacity
1082 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1083 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1084 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1088 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1089 - Improved preferences
1090 - Improvements to the wizard
1091 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1093 - Redesigned playlist
1094 - Improved preferences
1096 - Support for multiple actions
1099 - Support for the new playlist system
1101 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1104 * Screensaver disabling fix
1105 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1106 * Support for no-decoration windows
1109 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1110 * The OpenGL video output is back
1111 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1112 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1113 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1114 is not yet available in the new module
1115 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1118 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1127 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1130 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1133 The following languages were added:
1139 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1140 --------------------------------
1143 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1144 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1147 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1148 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1149 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1152 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1155 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1158 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1161 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1162 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1163 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1167 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1169 * Support of playlist group announcement
1172 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1173 --------------------------------
1176 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1177 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1178 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1179 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1180 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1181 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1184 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1185 (Stream your desktop)
1186 * Improved DVD support:
1187 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1188 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1189 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1190 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1191 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1192 (selection of titles/chapters).
1195 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1196 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1197 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1198 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1199 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1200 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1201 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1202 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1203 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1204 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1207 * G.726 audio support
1208 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1209 * MPEG-4 text support
1210 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1211 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1212 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1216 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1217 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1218 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1219 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1220 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1221 * DVB subtitles encoder
1222 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1223 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1225 * Text track muxing for mp4
1226 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1227 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1228 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1229 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1230 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1231 * Improved ASF muxer
1233 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1234 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1235 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1238 * New audio equalizer filter
1239 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1240 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1241 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1242 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1245 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1246 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1247 with support for effects.
1248 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1249 - New filters can be streamed.
1250 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1251 - Centralized scaling and blending
1253 - "time", to display current time
1254 - "marq", to display a marquee
1257 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1258 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1259 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1260 * A few skins2 improvements
1261 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1262 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1263 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1264 * Improved CORBA control module
1267 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1268 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1269 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1272 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1273 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1274 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1277 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1278 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1279 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1280 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1281 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1284 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1287 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1288 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1291 * Server/client network synchronization module
1292 * VBrick streams fully supported
1293 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1297 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1298 --------------------------------
1301 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1302 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1303 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1304 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1307 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1308 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1309 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1310 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1311 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1312 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1313 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1316 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1317 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1318 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1319 * Improved directory access module.
1320 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1321 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1322 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1323 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1324 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1327 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1328 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1329 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1332 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1333 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1334 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1337 * Improved session announcement system.
1338 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1339 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1340 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1341 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1342 * Improved transrater.
1343 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1344 * New configuration system.
1345 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1348 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1349 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1350 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1351 * Supports scheduling.
1352 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1353 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1356 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1357 - Ability to embed video output.
1358 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1359 - Lots of improvements.
1360 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1361 - New design and set of icons.
1362 - Ability to embed video output.
1363 - Support for hotkeys.
1364 - Support for bookmarks.
1366 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1367 - Better hotkeys handling.
1370 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1371 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1372 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1373 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1376 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1377 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1378 * Improved Windows installer.
1384 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1385 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1388 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1389 ---------------------------------
1392 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1393 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1396 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1397 --------------------------------
1400 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1401 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1404 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1405 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1406 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1407 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1410 * Internal improvments
1411 * Improved import/export
1414 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1416 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1417 small and strange formats.
1419 * New MOD audio demux.
1420 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1421 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1422 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1423 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1426 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1427 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1428 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1434 * New opengl video output plugin.
1437 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1438 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1441 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1442 --------------------------------
1445 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1446 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1447 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1448 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1449 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1450 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1451 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1452 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1455 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1460 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1461 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1462 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1463 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1464 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1465 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1466 * Better Icecast support.
1467 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1468 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1471 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1472 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1473 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1474 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1475 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1476 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1477 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1480 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1481 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1482 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1483 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1484 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1485 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1486 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1487 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1488 * Preliminary RTP support.
1489 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1494 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1495 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1497 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1498 - Improvements and help in preferences
1499 - New streaming wizard
1500 - Revised Disc Open menu
1502 - Improvements of the standard pages
1503 - Support for new commands
1504 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1507 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1508 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1511 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1512 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1513 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1514 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1515 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1516 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1517 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1518 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1519 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1522 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1524 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1525 * Support for Panther.
1526 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1527 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1530 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1531 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1532 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1533 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1534 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1535 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1536 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1537 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1540 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1541 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1542 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1545 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1548 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1549 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1550 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1551 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1554 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1555 --------------------------------
1558 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1561 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1562 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1565 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1566 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1569 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1572 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1573 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1576 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1579 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1582 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1583 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1587 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1588 --------------------------------
1591 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1592 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1596 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1597 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1598 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1600 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1601 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1604 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1607 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1610 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1611 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1615 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1616 --------------------------------
1619 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1620 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1624 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1625 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1626 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1627 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1628 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1631 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1632 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1633 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1636 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1637 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1638 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1641 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1642 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1643 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1644 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1645 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1648 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1649 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1650 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1653 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1656 * Improved build system.
1657 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1658 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1659 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1660 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1663 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1664 --------------------------------
1667 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1670 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1671 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1672 * Video 4 Linux support
1673 * CD Digital Audio support
1674 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1677 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1678 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1679 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1680 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1683 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1684 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1685 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1686 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1687 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1688 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1689 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1692 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1693 * New HTTP remote control interface
1696 * 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.
1697 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1698 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1699 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1702 * New reset option for the preferences
1703 * You can set your language in the prefences
1704 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1705 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1706 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1707 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1710 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1711 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1712 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1715 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1716 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1717 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1718 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1719 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1720 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1721 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1722 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1723 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1724 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1727 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1728 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1729 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1730 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1731 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1732 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1733 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1736 * Interface localization
1737 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1738 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1739 * New full-featured Preferences window
1742 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1743 --------------------------------
1746 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1747 * support for skins at the interface level
1748 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1749 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1750 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1751 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1752 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1755 * fixed HTTP redirects
1756 * support for opening an entire directory
1757 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1758 * new video4linux access plug-in
1759 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1762 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1763 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1764 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1767 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1768 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1769 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1770 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1771 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1772 * new codec for raw I420 video
1773 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1776 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1777 (although it still misses some important features)
1778 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1781 * new HTTP output support
1782 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1783 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1786 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1789 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1792 * reorderable playlist
1793 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1794 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1795 * support for mono audio output devices
1796 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1797 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1798 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1799 * the messages window remembers more lines
1800 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1801 * http and ogg stream output options
1802 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1805 * new skinnable interface
1806 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1808 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1809 * support for FLAC audio format
1810 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1812 * network tab in the interface
1813 * "apply" handling in preferences
1816 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1817 ---------------------------------
1820 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1821 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1822 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1823 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1825 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1826 * DTS S/PDIF support
1829 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1830 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1831 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1832 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1835 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1836 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1839 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1842 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1845 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1847 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1848 * rc interface is now fully useable
1849 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1852 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1853 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1854 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1855 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1856 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1858 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1859 * support for mouse gestures
1860 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1863 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1864 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1867 * improved ID3 tag detection
1868 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1869 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1870 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1872 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1875 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1876 ---------------------------------
1879 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1880 English was set as the preferred language
1883 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1884 --------------------------------
1887 * new mouse gesture interface
1888 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1892 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1893 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1894 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1897 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1898 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1902 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1905 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1906 without the user consent
1909 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1911 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1912 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1913 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1916 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1917 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1918 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1919 * playlist enhancements
1920 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1921 * new step forward/step backward commands
1922 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1923 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1924 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1927 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1928 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1929 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1932 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1933 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1936 * native video output is working again
1937 * only commandline interface support
1938 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1941 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1942 --------------------------------
1945 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1946 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1947 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1948 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1949 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1950 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1951 and A/52 streams are supported)
1952 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1957 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1958 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1959 * VCD entry points support
1960 * VCD image file support
1963 * support for *.asf format
1964 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1965 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1966 * support for ogg encapsulation
1967 * support for raw DV format
1968 * support for *.wav format
1969 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1972 Stream discovery & playlists:
1973 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1974 * support for .m3u file format
1975 * support for .asx file format
1976 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1979 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1980 (only available with the .avi demux)
1981 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1982 * support for raw PCM data
1983 * support for Cinepak video codec
1984 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1985 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1986 * support for Xvid codec
1987 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1988 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1989 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1991 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1993 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1996 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1999 * new WxWindows interface
2000 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2001 device and the channels configuration
2002 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2003 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2004 format that VLC can play
2005 * new swedish translation
2006 * enhancements of the playlist window
2007 * new messages window to see debug info
2008 * fixed a few crashes
2011 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2012 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2013 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2014 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working