1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 3rd party libraries (contrib):
5 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
8 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
11 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
14 * new remapping channel filter
15 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
16 * new VSXu visualization plugin
19 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
22 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
23 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
26 * fixed lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
29 * portaudio audio output
32 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
33 --------------------------------
36 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
37 * fix the samba module compilation
38 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
39 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
40 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
41 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
44 * Support for MXPEG files
45 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
46 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
49 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
50 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
51 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
54 * Fix ogm header creation
57 * limit spatializer filter distortions
58 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
61 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
62 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
63 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
64 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
67 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
70 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
71 * allow to hide the sidebar
72 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
73 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
74 * noticebly faster launch time
75 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
76 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
77 * improve track synchronization panel
78 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
79 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
82 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
83 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
84 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
85 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
88 * fix for menus display
89 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
90 * documentation update
93 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
94 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
97 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
98 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
99 * Update Jamendo selections
103 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
104 * fix a crash on VLM close
107 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
108 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
109 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201)
110 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202)
113 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
116 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
117 ---------------------------------
120 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
121 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
122 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
123 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
124 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
125 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
126 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
127 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
128 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
129 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
130 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
131 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
132 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
133 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
134 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
135 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
136 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
137 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
138 --http-crl (optional CRL).
139 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
140 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
141 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
142 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
143 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
144 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
145 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
147 Important changes for packagers:
148 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
149 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
150 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
151 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
152 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
153 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
154 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
155 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
156 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
157 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
160 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
161 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
162 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
163 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
164 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
165 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
166 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
169 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
170 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
171 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
172 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
173 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
174 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
175 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
176 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
177 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
178 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
179 * PulseAudio audio input support
180 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
181 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
182 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
183 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
184 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
185 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
186 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
187 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
190 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
191 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
192 are notably concerned.
193 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
194 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
195 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
196 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
197 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
198 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
199 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
200 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
201 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
202 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
203 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
204 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
205 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
206 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
207 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
210 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
211 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
212 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
213 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
214 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
215 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
216 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
217 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
218 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
219 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
220 * Improved support of tracker files
221 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
224 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
225 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
226 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
227 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
228 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
229 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
230 and important cleanups and optimisations
231 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
232 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
233 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
234 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
235 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
236 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
237 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
238 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
239 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
240 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
241 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
242 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
243 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
244 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
245 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
246 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
247 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
248 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
249 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
250 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
251 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
254 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
255 * New video output for iOS platform
256 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
257 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
258 * Various vmem improvements
259 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
260 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
261 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
262 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
263 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
264 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
266 Audio Output and Filters:
267 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
268 * New audio output in memory (amem)
269 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
270 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
271 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
272 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
273 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
274 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
275 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
276 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
279 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
280 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
281 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
282 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
283 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
284 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
285 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
286 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
287 * New anti-flickering filter
288 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
289 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
290 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
291 blackbox and customizable shadow.
292 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
293 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
294 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
297 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
298 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
299 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
300 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
301 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
302 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
303 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
304 * Major rework of VoD support
305 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
306 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
307 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
308 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
309 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
310 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
311 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
312 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
313 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
314 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
317 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
318 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
321 * New capabilities for libVLC:
322 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
323 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
324 list of available audio and video filters
325 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
326 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
327 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
330 * asademux, subsass: use libass
331 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
332 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
334 * upnp: use upnp_intel
335 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
336 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
337 * removal of the noise filter
338 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
339 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
340 removed in Growl's next release, too.
341 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
344 * Update of translations for most languages.
345 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
348 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
349 ----------------------------------
352 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
353 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
356 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
357 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
360 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
361 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
362 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
365 * Camtasia decoding fix.
368 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
369 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
372 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
375 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
376 ----------------------------------
379 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
380 including support for OS X Lion
381 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
382 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
385 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
388 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
389 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
390 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
393 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
396 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
397 ----------------------------------
400 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
401 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
404 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
405 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
406 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
407 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
408 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
410 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
411 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
412 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
414 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
415 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
418 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
421 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
424 * Fix quitting on Linux
425 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
429 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
432 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
435 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
436 ---------------------------------
438 Windows and Mac OS X:
439 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
442 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
443 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
446 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
449 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
452 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
454 Miscellaneous fixes in:
455 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
457 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
458 * RTP output and XML export
459 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
463 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
464 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
465 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
466 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
469 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
470 --------------------------------
472 Windows and Mac OS X:
473 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
476 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
479 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
480 * Improve Apple Remote handling
481 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
482 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
483 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
484 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
487 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
488 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
492 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
493 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
494 * New Luganda Translation
497 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
498 --------------------------------
501 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
504 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
505 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
506 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
507 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
510 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
512 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
513 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
514 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
515 * mp4 demuxer improvements
516 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
517 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
518 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
519 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
521 Miscellaneous fixes in:
522 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
523 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
524 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
525 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
526 * Configure and build system improvements
527 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
530 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
531 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
532 * New icelandic translation
535 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
536 --------------------------------
539 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
543 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
544 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
545 and stability reasons
548 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
552 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
555 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
556 ----------------------------------
559 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
562 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
563 ---------------------------------
566 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
567 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
568 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
569 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
572 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
575 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
576 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
577 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
578 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
581 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
582 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
583 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
585 Subtitles and renderer:
586 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
587 * Mark more freetype options as safe
588 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
589 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
590 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
593 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
594 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
595 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
596 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
599 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
600 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
603 * KDE device solid actions
605 * Transcode integer overflow
606 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
607 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
610 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
611 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
612 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
615 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
616 ----------------------------------
619 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
623 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
626 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
629 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
630 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
631 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
632 * Taglib thread-safety fix
635 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
639 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
642 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
645 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
646 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
648 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
652 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
653 * Miscellaneous fixes
656 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
657 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
659 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
660 * New Asturian translation
663 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
664 ----------------------------------
667 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
669 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
672 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
675 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
676 * Various fixes for Windows
679 * New Armenian translation
680 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
681 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
684 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
685 --------------------------------
688 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
690 * Fix folders opening from the interface
693 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
694 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
697 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
698 --------------------------------
701 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
702 * fix for podcasts parsing
703 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
706 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
707 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
710 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
711 * fix m3u playlists exports
714 * fix video autoresize behaviour
717 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
720 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
723 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
726 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
729 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
730 --------------------------------
733 * Avformat fps displaying fix
734 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
737 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
738 of mono streams, especially on Windows
741 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
742 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
743 * fix console output encoding
745 Interface and extensions:
746 * Youtube and other scripts updates
747 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
750 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
751 --------------------------------
754 * New capabilities for libVLC:
755 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
756 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
757 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
758 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
759 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
760 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
761 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
762 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
763 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
764 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
765 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
766 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
767 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
768 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
769 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
773 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
774 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
775 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
776 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
777 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
780 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
783 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
784 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
785 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
789 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
792 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
793 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
794 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
797 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
798 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
799 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
800 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
803 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
804 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
807 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
808 --------------------------------
810 Important changes for users:
811 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
812 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
814 Important changes for packagers:
815 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
816 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
817 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
818 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
819 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
821 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
823 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
824 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
825 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
826 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
827 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
830 * Support for the sftp protocol
831 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
832 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
833 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
834 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
835 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
838 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
839 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
840 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
842 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
843 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
844 * Invmem module improvements
845 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
846 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
847 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
848 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
849 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
850 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
851 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
852 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
853 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
854 * Support for VP8 codec
855 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
858 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
859 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
860 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
861 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
862 * Various EGP improvements
863 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
864 * Metadata and cover art improvements
867 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
868 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
869 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
870 * Podcast images are now displayed
873 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
874 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
875 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
876 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
877 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
878 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
879 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
880 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
881 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
882 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
883 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
886 * New content extensions lua framework
889 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
890 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
891 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
892 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
893 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
894 * NEON assembly audio converter module
895 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
898 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
899 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
900 * Service discovery based on libudev
901 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
904 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
905 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
906 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
907 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
908 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
909 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
910 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
913 * New smem module, streaming to memory
914 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
915 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
918 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
920 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
921 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
924 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
927 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
928 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
929 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
930 by Andy Matuschak et al.
931 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
932 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
933 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
936 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
937 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
940 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
941 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
942 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
946 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
947 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
948 * Improved Solaris port
951 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
952 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
955 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
956 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
957 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
958 * transrate: broken since too long
959 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
960 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
961 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
962 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
963 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
964 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
965 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
966 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
967 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
968 * cddax: use cdda instead.
969 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
970 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
971 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
972 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
975 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
976 --------------------------------
979 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
981 Decoders/Packetizers:
982 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
985 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
986 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
987 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
988 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
989 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
992 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
993 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
996 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
997 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1000 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1001 and Walloon translations updated
1002 * Sinhala translation started
1005 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1006 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1009 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1010 --------------------------------
1013 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1014 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1017 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1020 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1021 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1024 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1025 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1026 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1027 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1030 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1031 --------------------------------
1034 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1035 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1038 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1039 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1042 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1043 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1046 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1049 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1050 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1053 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1054 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1057 * New Walloon translation
1058 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1061 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1062 --------------------------------
1065 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1066 regressions in most popular drivers
1067 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1070 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1071 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1072 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1075 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1076 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1079 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1080 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1081 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1082 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1083 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1086 * New udev module for linux
1089 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1092 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1095 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1096 --------------------------------
1099 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1100 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1101 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1104 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1105 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1108 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1109 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1112 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1115 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1116 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1117 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1118 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1121 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1122 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1123 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1124 - no support for Goom and SDL
1125 - limited text rendering support
1126 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1129 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1130 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1131 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1132 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1133 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1134 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1135 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1136 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1137 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1141 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1144 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1147 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1148 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1149 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1150 Arabic and French translation updates
1153 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1154 --------------------------------
1157 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1158 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1159 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1160 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1161 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1162 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1165 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1166 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1167 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1170 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1171 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1172 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1175 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1178 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1179 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1182 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1183 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1184 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1185 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1186 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1187 * Fix various crashes
1190 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1192 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1196 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1197 ---------------------------------
1201 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1202 See 'Access:' for more info.
1203 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1206 * Instantaneous pausing
1207 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1208 * Finer speed control
1209 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1210 * Timeshift for most medias
1211 * RTSP trickplay support
1212 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1215 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1216 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1217 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1218 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1219 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1220 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1221 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1222 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1223 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1224 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1227 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1228 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1229 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1230 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1231 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1232 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1233 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1236 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1237 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1240 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1241 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1242 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1243 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1244 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1245 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1246 * DVB scanning on linux
1247 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1248 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1249 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1250 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1251 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1252 * MTP device access on Unix
1253 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1254 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1257 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1258 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1259 Windows and Mac OS X.
1262 * Export the playlist in HTML
1263 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1264 * Better metadata handling and reading
1266 Linux/Windows interface:
1267 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1268 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1269 * Recently played items list
1270 * Interface toolbar customizations
1271 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1272 - More menus actions
1273 - Finer speed slider
1274 - Improvements on many dialogs
1275 - New dialog for plugins listing
1276 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1277 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1278 * Better integration in GTK environments
1281 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1282 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1283 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1284 * Additional usability improvements
1287 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1288 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1289 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1290 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1291 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1294 * New Maemo port with:
1295 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1296 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1299 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1302 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1303 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1304 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1305 * Support for latest iSight models
1308 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1309 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1312 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1313 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1314 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1315 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1316 The old image video output has been removed.
1317 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1318 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1321 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1329 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1330 --------------------------------------
1336 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1337 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1338 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1339 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1340 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1341 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1342 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1344 Various fixes to the following modules:
1347 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1348 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1349 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1351 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1356 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1357 ---------------------------------
1360 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1361 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1364 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1365 ---------------------------------
1368 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1371 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1374 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1375 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1376 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1377 main controller window.
1378 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1381 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1386 * Updates of other localizations
1389 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1390 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1391 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1392 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1393 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1396 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1397 ---------------------------------
1400 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1402 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1405 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1406 --------------------------------
1411 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1412 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1415 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1416 --------------------------------
1418 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1419 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1422 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1425 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1426 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1429 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1430 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1433 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1434 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1435 * Various fixed in playlist
1438 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1441 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1444 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1445 ------------------------------------
1447 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1448 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1451 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1452 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1453 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1456 * Stability fix for the video output.
1459 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1460 --------------------------------
1463 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1464 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1465 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1466 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1467 * Fixed update system bugs
1468 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1471 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1472 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1473 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1474 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1475 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1476 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1477 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1478 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1479 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1480 modern Mac OS X versions
1483 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1484 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1486 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1487 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1490 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1491 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1492 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1493 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1494 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1495 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1498 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1499 --------------------------------
1501 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1502 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1503 * Multiple bugfixes.
1506 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1507 --------------------------------
1509 * Multiple bug fixes.
1512 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1513 ---------------------------------
1517 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1518 recent to work correctly
1519 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1520 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1521 edit the ".hosts" file.
1522 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1523 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1524 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1525 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1526 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1527 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1528 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1529 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1530 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1531 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1532 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1533 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1534 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1535 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1536 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1537 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1538 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1539 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1540 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1541 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1542 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1543 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1544 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1545 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1546 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1547 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1548 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1549 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1550 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1551 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1552 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1553 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1554 and postproc modules.
1555 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1556 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1557 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1558 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1560 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1561 filter. For example:
1562 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1563 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1565 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1566 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1572 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1574 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1575 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1578 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1579 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1581 * Shoutcast TV listings
1582 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1584 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1585 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1587 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1590 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1591 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1592 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1593 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1594 * JACK audio input support
1595 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1596 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1597 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1598 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1599 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1600 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1601 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1602 (available as a separate download).
1603 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1604 * RTMP input support
1605 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1606 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1607 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1609 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1610 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1613 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1614 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1615 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1616 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1618 * APEv1/2 tags support
1619 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1620 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1622 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1623 * TiVo Series 2 support
1624 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1629 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1630 * Flash Screen Video support
1631 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1632 * DosBox Capture support
1633 * Karl Morton's Video support
1634 * limited atrac3 support
1636 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1637 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1638 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1639 * H.264 PAFF support
1640 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1641 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1642 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1643 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1644 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1647 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1648 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1649 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1650 * AQTitle subtitles support
1651 * MKV USF subtitles support
1652 * HTML-based subtitles support
1653 * MPSub subtitles support
1654 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1655 * MPL2 subtitles support
1656 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1657 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1658 * Realtext subtitle support
1659 * DKS subtitle support
1660 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1661 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1664 * Flash Screen Video support
1665 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1667 Video outputs and filters:
1668 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1669 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1670 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1671 * New puzzle video output filter
1672 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1673 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1675 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1676 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1677 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1678 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1679 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1680 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1681 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1682 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1683 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1684 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1685 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1686 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1687 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1688 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1690 Audio outputs and filters:
1691 * Replay gain support
1692 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1693 new scaletempo audio filter)
1694 * New spatializer audio filter
1695 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1698 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1699 * New RTP payload formats:
1700 * Speex voice audio codec
1701 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1702 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1703 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1704 * DCCP transport for RTP
1705 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1710 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1711 end-user suitable way.
1712 * Improved user interaction
1713 * Improved mouse gestures
1714 * Vastly improved Update checker
1715 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1717 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1718 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1720 * Improved video output features
1721 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1722 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1723 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1724 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1725 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1727 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1728 if libncursesw is available.
1729 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1730 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1731 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1733 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1734 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1735 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1736 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1737 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1738 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1739 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1740 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1743 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1744 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1745 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1748 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1749 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1750 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1751 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1752 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1753 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1756 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1757 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1767 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1768 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1769 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1772 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1773 ----------------------------------
1776 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1779 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1780 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1781 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1782 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1783 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1784 * Updated Polish translation
1787 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1788 ----------------------------------
1791 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1792 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1793 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1796 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1797 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1798 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1799 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1800 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1801 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1802 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1803 to an unexpected application termination
1804 * New Serbian translation
1805 * Updated Romanian translation
1808 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1809 ----------------------------------
1812 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1813 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1814 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1815 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1816 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1817 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1818 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1819 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1822 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1823 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1824 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1825 * Fixed AAC resampling
1826 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1827 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1830 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1831 ----------------------------------
1834 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1835 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1836 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1837 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1838 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1841 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1842 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1843 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1844 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1845 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1848 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1849 ----------------------------------
1852 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1853 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1856 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1857 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1858 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1859 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1861 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1865 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1868 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1871 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1874 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1877 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1878 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1879 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1880 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1881 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1883 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1884 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1885 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1886 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1889 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1892 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1893 ----------------------------------
1896 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1897 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1898 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1900 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1901 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1903 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1904 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1907 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1909 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1910 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1911 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1912 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1913 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1914 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1915 two different movies
1916 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1917 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1918 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1921 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1924 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1925 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1926 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1927 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1930 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1931 ----------------------------------
1933 Various bugfixes, notably:
1934 * Windows Vista compatibility
1935 * Cropping in Direct3D
1936 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1937 * RSS filter string overflow
1939 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1941 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1942 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1945 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1946 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1949 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1952 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1955 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1958 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1959 ----------------------------------
1961 Various bugfixes, notably:
1962 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1963 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1964 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1965 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1966 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1967 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1970 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1971 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1974 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1976 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1977 * Diverse usability improvements
1978 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1979 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1980 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1983 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1984 ---------------------------------
1986 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1987 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1990 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1993 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1994 --------------------------------
1997 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2000 * Support for RTSP authentication
2001 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2002 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2003 * ATSC support for DVB input
2004 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2005 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2006 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2009 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2010 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2011 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2012 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2013 * Matroska WavPack support
2014 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2015 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2016 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2019 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2020 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2021 * Improved libcaca support
2025 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2026 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2028 * Systray support in skins
2030 * Support for Apple Remote control
2031 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2032 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2033 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2034 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2036 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2039 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2040 Windows 9x/ME users:
2041 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2042 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2043 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2044 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2045 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2047 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2048 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2057 * Updates to the libvlc API
2058 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2061 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2062 --------------------------------
2065 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2066 * Support for downloading updates
2070 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2071 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2072 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2073 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2075 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2076 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2077 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2080 * Cook (Real audio) support
2082 Playlist / Services discovery:
2083 * XSPF playlist support
2085 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2088 * New JACK audio output
2091 * New video filters:
2092 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2093 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2094 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2095 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2096 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2097 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2100 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2103 * System to inform the user and request information
2104 - HTTP authentication
2108 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2109 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2110 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2113 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2114 - Improved playlist handling
2115 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2117 - Embedded Video output
2118 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2119 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2120 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2121 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2122 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2124 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2125 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2128 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2131 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2132 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2133 * Growl "Now playing" support
2136 * Ability to log to syslog
2137 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2140 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2142 * A bit more automatic testing
2145 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2146 ---------------------------------
2149 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2150 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2153 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2154 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2157 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2160 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2161 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2167 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2170 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2171 --------------------------------
2174 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2178 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2179 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2180 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2183 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2184 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2185 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2186 * GnomeVFS input module
2187 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2188 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2191 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2192 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2193 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2196 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2197 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2203 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2204 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2207 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2208 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2209 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2212 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2214 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2215 - New extended controls panel
2216 - New bookmarks window
2217 - Fixed playlist sorting
2218 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2220 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2221 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2222 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2223 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2227 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2228 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2230 - Include macro to include other files
2234 * Should now work outside IE as well
2237 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2240 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2241 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2244 The following languages were added:
2248 * Simplified Chinese
2249 The following languages were re-added:
2253 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2254 --------------------------------
2257 * Rewrite of the playlist
2259 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2260 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2261 * Preferences improvements:
2262 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2263 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2265 * Core image manipulation support
2266 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2267 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2268 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2269 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2270 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2271 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2272 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2273 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2274 * Access filter architecture
2275 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2276 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2280 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2281 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2282 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2283 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2284 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2285 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2286 * Massive Matroska improvements
2287 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2289 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2290 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2291 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2292 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2293 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2295 Decoders / Encoders:
2296 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2297 * PNG decoder/encoder
2298 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2299 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2302 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2305 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2306 * Brand new SAP module
2307 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2308 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2309 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2310 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2311 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2312 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2316 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2319 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2320 * Image file video output (png)
2321 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2322 * Improvements to wall video filter
2323 * Support for font color and opacity
2329 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2330 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2331 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2335 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2336 - Improved preferences
2337 - Improvements to the wizard
2338 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2340 - Redesigned playlist
2341 - Improved preferences
2343 - Support for multiple actions
2346 - Support for the new playlist system
2348 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2351 * Screensaver disabling fix
2352 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2353 * Support for no-decoration windows
2356 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2357 * The OpenGL video output is back
2358 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2359 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2360 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2361 is not yet available in the new module
2362 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2365 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2374 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2377 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2380 The following languages were added:
2386 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2387 --------------------------------
2390 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2391 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2394 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2395 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2396 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2399 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2402 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2405 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2408 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2409 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2410 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2414 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2416 * Support of playlist group announcement
2419 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2420 --------------------------------
2423 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2424 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2425 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2426 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2427 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2428 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2431 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2432 (Stream your desktop)
2433 * Improved DVD support:
2434 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2435 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2436 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2437 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2438 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2439 (selection of titles/chapters).
2442 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2443 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2444 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2445 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2446 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2447 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2448 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2449 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2450 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2451 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2454 * G.726 audio support
2455 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2456 * MPEG-4 text support
2457 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2458 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2459 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2463 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2464 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2465 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2466 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2467 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2468 * DVB subtitles encoder
2469 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2470 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2472 * Text track muxing for mp4
2473 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2474 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2475 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2476 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2477 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2478 * Improved ASF muxer
2480 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2481 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2482 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2485 * New audio equalizer filter
2486 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2487 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2488 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2489 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2492 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2493 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2494 with support for effects.
2495 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2496 - New filters can be streamed.
2497 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2498 - Centralized scaling and blending
2500 - "time", to display current time
2501 - "marq", to display a marquee
2504 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2505 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2506 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2507 * A few skins2 improvements
2508 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2509 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2510 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2511 * Improved CORBA control module
2514 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2515 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2516 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2519 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2520 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2521 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2524 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2525 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2526 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2527 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2528 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2531 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2534 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2535 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2538 * Server/client network synchronization module
2539 * VBrick streams fully supported
2540 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2544 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2545 --------------------------------
2548 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2549 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2550 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2551 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2554 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2555 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2556 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2557 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2558 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2559 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2560 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2563 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2564 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2565 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2566 * Improved directory access module.
2567 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2568 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2569 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2570 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2571 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2574 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2575 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2576 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2579 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2580 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2581 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2584 * Improved session announcement system.
2585 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2586 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2587 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2588 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2589 * Improved transrater.
2590 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2591 * New configuration system.
2592 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2595 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2596 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2597 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2598 * Supports scheduling.
2599 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2600 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2603 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2604 - Ability to embed video output.
2605 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2606 - Lots of improvements.
2607 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2608 - New design and set of icons.
2609 - Ability to embed video output.
2610 - Support for hotkeys.
2611 - Support for bookmarks.
2613 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2614 - Better hotkeys handling.
2617 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2618 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2619 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2620 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2623 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2624 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2625 * Improved Windows installer.
2631 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2632 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2635 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2636 ---------------------------------
2639 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2640 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2643 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2644 --------------------------------
2647 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2648 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2651 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2652 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2653 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2654 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2657 * Internal improvments
2658 * Improved import/export
2661 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2663 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2664 small and strange formats.
2666 * New MOD audio demux.
2667 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2668 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2669 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2670 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2673 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2674 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2675 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2681 * New opengl video output plugin.
2684 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2685 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2688 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2689 --------------------------------
2692 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2693 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2694 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2695 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2696 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2697 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2698 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2699 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2702 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2707 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2708 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2709 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2710 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2711 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2712 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2713 * Better Icecast support.
2714 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2715 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2718 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2719 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2720 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2721 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2722 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2723 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2724 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2727 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2728 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2729 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2730 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2731 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2732 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2733 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2734 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2735 * Preliminary RTP support.
2736 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2741 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2742 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2744 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2745 - Improvements and help in preferences
2746 - New streaming wizard
2747 - Revised Disc Open menu
2749 - Improvements of the standard pages
2750 - Support for new commands
2751 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2754 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2755 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2758 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2759 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2760 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2761 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2762 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2763 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2764 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2765 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2766 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2769 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2771 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2772 * Support for Panther.
2773 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2774 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2777 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2778 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2779 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2780 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2781 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2782 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2783 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2784 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2787 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2788 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2789 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2792 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2795 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2796 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2797 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2798 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2801 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2802 --------------------------------
2805 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2808 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2809 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2812 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2813 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2816 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2819 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2820 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2823 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2826 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2829 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2830 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2834 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2835 --------------------------------
2838 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2839 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2843 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2844 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2845 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2847 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2848 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2851 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2854 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2857 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2858 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2862 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2863 --------------------------------
2866 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2867 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2871 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2872 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2873 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2874 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2875 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2878 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2879 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2880 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2883 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2884 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2885 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2888 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2889 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2890 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2891 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2892 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2895 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2896 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2897 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2900 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2903 * Improved build system.
2904 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2905 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2906 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2907 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2910 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2911 --------------------------------
2914 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2917 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2918 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2919 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2920 * Video 4 Linux support
2921 * CD Digital Audio support
2922 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2925 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2926 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2927 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2928 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2931 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2932 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2933 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2934 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2935 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2936 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2937 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2940 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2941 * New HTTP remote control interface
2944 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2945 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2946 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2947 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2948 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2951 * New reset option for the preferences
2952 * You can set your language in the prefences
2953 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2954 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2955 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2956 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2959 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2960 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2961 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2964 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2965 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2966 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2967 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2968 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2969 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2970 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2971 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2972 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2973 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2976 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2977 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2978 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2979 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2980 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2981 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2982 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2985 * Interface localization
2986 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2987 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2988 * New full-featured Preferences window
2991 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2992 --------------------------------
2995 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2996 * support for skins at the interface level
2997 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2998 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2999 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3000 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3001 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3004 * fixed HTTP redirects
3005 * support for opening an entire directory
3006 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3007 * new video4linux access plug-in
3008 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3011 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3012 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3013 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3016 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3017 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3018 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3019 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3020 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3021 * new codec for raw I420 video
3022 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3025 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3026 (although it still misses some important features)
3027 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3030 * new HTTP output support
3031 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3032 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3035 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3038 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3041 * reorderable playlist
3042 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3043 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3044 * support for mono audio output devices
3045 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3046 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3047 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3048 * the messages window remembers more lines
3049 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3050 * http and ogg stream output options
3051 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3054 * new skinnable interface
3055 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3057 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3058 * support for FLAC audio format
3059 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3061 * network tab in the interface
3062 * "apply" handling in preferences
3065 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3066 ---------------------------------
3069 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3070 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3071 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3072 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3074 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3075 * DTS S/PDIF support
3078 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3079 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3080 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3081 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3084 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3085 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3088 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3091 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3094 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3096 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3097 * rc interface is now fully useable
3098 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3101 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3102 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3103 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3104 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3105 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3107 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3108 * support for mouse gestures
3109 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3112 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3113 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3116 * improved ID3 tag detection
3117 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3118 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3119 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3121 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3124 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3125 ---------------------------------
3128 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3129 English was set as the preferred language
3132 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3133 --------------------------------
3136 * new mouse gesture interface
3137 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3141 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3142 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3143 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3146 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3147 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3151 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3154 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3155 without the user consent
3158 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3160 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3161 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3162 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3165 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3166 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3167 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3168 * playlist enhancements
3169 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3170 * new step forward/step backward commands
3171 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3172 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3173 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3176 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3177 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3178 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3181 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3182 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3185 * native video output is working again
3186 * only commandline interface support
3187 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3190 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3191 --------------------------------
3194 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3195 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3196 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3197 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3198 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3199 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3200 and A/52 streams are supported)
3201 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3206 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3207 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3208 * VCD entry points support
3209 * VCD image file support
3212 * support for *.asf format
3213 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3214 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3215 * support for ogg encapsulation
3216 * support for raw DV format
3217 * support for *.wav format
3218 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3221 Stream discovery & playlists:
3222 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3223 * support for .m3u file format
3224 * support for .asx file format
3225 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3228 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3229 (only available with the .avi demux)
3230 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3231 * support for raw PCM data
3232 * support for Cinepak video codec
3233 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3234 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3235 * support for Xvid codec
3236 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3237 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3238 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3240 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3242 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3245 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3248 * new WxWindows interface
3249 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3250 device and the channels configuration
3251 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3252 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3253 format that VLC can play
3254 * new swedish translation
3255 * enhancements of the playlist window
3256 * new messages window to see debug info
3257 * fixed a few crashes
3260 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3261 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3262 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3263 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working