1 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
8 * new remapping channel filter
11 Changes between 1.1.12 and 2.0.0:
12 ---------------------------------
15 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
16 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
17 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
18 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
19 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
20 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
21 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
22 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
23 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
24 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
25 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
26 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
27 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
28 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
29 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
30 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
31 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
32 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
33 --http-crl (optional CRL).
34 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
35 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
36 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
37 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
38 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
39 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
40 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
42 Important changes for packagers:
43 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
44 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
45 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
46 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
47 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
48 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
49 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
50 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
51 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
52 * The webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
55 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
56 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
57 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
58 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
59 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
60 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
61 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64
64 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
65 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA module
66 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
67 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
68 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
69 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
70 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
71 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
72 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
73 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
74 * PulseAudio audio input support
75 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
76 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
77 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
78 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
79 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
80 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
81 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
82 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
85 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
86 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
87 are notably concerned.
88 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
89 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
90 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
91 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
92 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
93 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
94 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
95 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
96 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
97 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
98 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
99 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
100 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
101 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
102 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
105 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
106 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
107 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
108 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
109 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
110 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
111 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
112 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
113 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
114 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
115 * Improved support of tracker files
118 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
119 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
120 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
121 * Qt: minor look improvements, notably on the seek bar
122 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
123 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
124 and important cleanups and optimisations
125 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
126 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
127 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
128 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
129 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
130 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
131 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
132 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
133 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
134 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
135 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
136 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
137 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
138 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
139 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
140 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
141 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
142 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
143 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
144 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
145 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
148 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
149 * New video output for iOS platform
150 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
151 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
152 * Various vmem improvements
153 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
154 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
155 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
156 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
157 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
158 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
160 Audio Output and Filters:
161 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
162 * New audio output in memory (amem)
163 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
164 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
165 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
166 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
167 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
168 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
169 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
170 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
173 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
174 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
175 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
176 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
177 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
178 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
179 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
180 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
181 * New anti-flickering filter
182 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
183 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
184 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
185 blackbox and customizable shadow.
186 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
187 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
188 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
191 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
192 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
193 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
194 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
195 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
196 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
197 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
198 * Major rework of VoD support
199 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
200 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
201 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
202 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
203 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
204 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
205 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
206 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
207 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
208 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
211 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
212 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
215 * New capabilities for libVLC:
216 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
217 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
218 list of available audio and video filters
219 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
220 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
221 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
224 * asademux: use libass only
225 * subsass: use libass
226 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
227 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
229 * upnp: use upnp_intel
230 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
231 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
232 * removal of the noise filter
233 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
234 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
235 removed in Growl's next release, too.
236 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
239 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
240 ----------------------------------
243 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
244 including support for OS X Lion
245 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
246 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
249 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
252 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
253 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
254 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
257 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
260 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
261 ----------------------------------
264 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
265 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
268 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
269 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
270 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
271 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
272 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
274 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
275 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
276 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
278 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
279 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
282 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
285 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
288 * Fix quitting on Linux
289 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
293 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
296 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
299 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
300 ---------------------------------
302 Windows and Mac OS X:
303 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
306 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
307 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
310 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
313 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
316 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
318 Miscellaneous fixes in:
319 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
321 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
322 * RTP output and XML export
323 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
327 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
328 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
329 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
330 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
333 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
334 --------------------------------
336 Windows and Mac OS X:
337 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
340 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
343 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
344 * Improve Apple Remote handling
345 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
346 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
347 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
348 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
351 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
352 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
356 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
357 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
358 * New Luganda Translation
361 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
362 --------------------------------
365 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
368 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
369 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
370 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
371 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
374 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
376 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
377 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
378 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
379 * mp4 demuxer improvements
380 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
381 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
382 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
383 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
385 Miscellaneous fixes in:
386 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
387 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
388 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
389 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
390 * Configure and build system improvements
391 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
394 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
395 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
396 * New icelandic translation
399 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
400 --------------------------------
403 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
407 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
408 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
409 and stability reasons
412 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
416 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
419 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
420 ----------------------------------
423 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
426 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
427 ---------------------------------
430 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
431 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
432 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
433 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
436 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
439 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
440 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
441 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
442 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
445 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
446 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
447 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
449 Subtitles and renderer:
450 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
451 * Mark more freetype options as safe
452 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
453 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
454 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
457 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
458 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
459 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
460 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
463 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
464 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
467 * KDE device solid actions
469 * Transcode integer overflow
470 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
471 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
474 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
475 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
476 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
479 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
480 ----------------------------------
483 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
487 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
490 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
493 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
494 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
495 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
496 * Taglib thread-safety fix
499 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
503 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
506 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
509 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
510 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
512 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
516 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
517 * Miscellaneous fixes
520 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
521 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
523 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
524 * New Asturian translation
527 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
528 ----------------------------------
531 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
533 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
536 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
539 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
540 * Various fixes for Windows
543 * New Armenian translation
544 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
545 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
548 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
549 --------------------------------
552 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
554 * Fix folders opening from the interface
557 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
558 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
561 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
562 --------------------------------
565 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
566 * fix for podcasts parsing
567 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
570 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
571 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
574 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
575 * fix m3u playlists exports
578 * fix video autoresize behaviour
581 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
584 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
587 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
590 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
593 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
594 --------------------------------
597 * Avformat fps displaying fix
598 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
601 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
602 of mono streams, especially on Windows
605 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
606 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
607 * fix console output encoding
609 Interface and extensions:
610 * Youtube and other scripts updates
611 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
614 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
615 --------------------------------
618 * New capabilities for libVLC:
619 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
620 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
621 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
622 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
623 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
624 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
625 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
626 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
627 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
628 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
629 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
630 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
631 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
632 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
633 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
637 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
638 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
639 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
640 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
641 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
644 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
647 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
648 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
649 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
653 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
656 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
657 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
658 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
661 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
662 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
663 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
664 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
667 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
668 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
671 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
672 --------------------------------
674 Important changes for users:
675 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
676 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
678 Important changes for packagers:
679 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
680 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
681 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
682 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
683 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
685 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
687 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
688 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
689 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
690 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
691 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
694 * Support for the sftp protocol
695 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
696 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
697 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
698 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
699 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
702 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
703 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
704 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
706 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
707 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
708 * Invmem module improvements
709 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
710 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
711 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
712 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
713 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
714 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
715 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
716 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
717 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
718 * Support for VP8 codec
719 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
722 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
723 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
724 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
725 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
726 * Various EGP improvements
727 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
728 * Metadata and cover art improvements
731 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
732 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
733 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
734 * Podcast images are now displayed
737 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
738 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
739 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
740 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
741 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
742 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
743 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
744 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
745 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
746 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
747 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
750 * New content extensions lua framework
753 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
754 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
755 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
756 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
757 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
758 * NEON assembly audio converter module
759 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
762 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
763 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
764 * Service discovery based on libudev
765 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
768 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
769 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
770 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
771 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
772 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
773 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
774 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
777 * New smem module, streaming to memory
778 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
779 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
782 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
784 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
785 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
788 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
791 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
792 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
793 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
794 by Andy Matuschak et al.
795 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
796 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
797 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
800 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
801 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
804 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
805 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
806 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
810 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
811 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
812 * Improved Solaris port
815 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
816 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
819 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
820 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
821 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
822 * transrate: broken since too long
823 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
824 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
825 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
826 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
827 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
828 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
829 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
830 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
831 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
832 * cddax: use cdda instead.
833 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
834 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
835 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
836 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
839 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
840 --------------------------------
843 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
845 Decoders/Packetizers:
846 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
849 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
850 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
851 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
852 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
853 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
856 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
857 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
860 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
861 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
864 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
865 and Walloon translations updated
866 * Sinhala translation started
869 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
870 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
873 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
874 --------------------------------
877 * SubRip extra styles improvements
878 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
881 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
884 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
885 increase performance and fix x264 issues
888 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
889 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
890 Russian, Slovak translation updates
891 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
894 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
895 --------------------------------
898 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
899 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
902 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
903 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
906 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
907 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
910 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
913 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
914 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
917 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
918 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
921 * New Walloon translation
922 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
925 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
926 --------------------------------
929 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
930 regressions in most popular drivers
931 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
934 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
935 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
936 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
939 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
940 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
943 * Update for appletrailers lua script
944 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
945 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
946 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
947 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
950 * New udev module for linux
953 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
956 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
959 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
960 --------------------------------
963 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
964 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
965 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
968 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
969 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
972 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
973 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
976 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
979 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
980 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
981 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
982 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
985 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
986 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
987 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
988 - no support for Goom and SDL
989 - limited text rendering support
990 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
993 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
994 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
995 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
996 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
997 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
998 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
999 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1000 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1001 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1005 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1008 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1011 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1012 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1013 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1014 Arabic and French translation updates
1017 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1018 --------------------------------
1021 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1022 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1023 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1024 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1025 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1026 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1029 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1030 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1031 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1034 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1035 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1036 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1039 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1042 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1043 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1046 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1047 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1048 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1049 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1050 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1051 * Fix various crashes
1054 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1056 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1060 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1061 ---------------------------------
1065 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1066 See 'Access:' for more info.
1067 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1070 * Instantaneous pausing
1071 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1072 * Finer speed control
1073 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1074 * Timeshift for most medias
1075 * RTSP trickplay support
1076 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1079 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1080 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1081 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1082 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1083 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1084 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1085 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1086 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1087 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1088 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1091 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1092 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1093 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1094 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1095 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1096 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1097 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1100 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1101 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1104 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1105 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1106 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1107 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1108 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1109 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1110 * DVB scanning on linux
1111 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1112 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1113 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1114 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1115 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1116 * MTP device access on Unix
1117 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1118 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1121 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1122 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1123 Windows and Mac OS X.
1126 * Export the playlist in HTML
1127 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1128 * Better metadata handling and reading
1130 Linux/Windows interface:
1131 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1132 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1133 * Recently played items list
1134 * Interface toolbar customizations
1135 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1136 - More menus actions
1137 - Finer speed slider
1138 - Improvements on many dialogs
1139 - New dialog for plugins listing
1140 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1141 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1142 * Better integration in GTK environments
1145 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1146 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1147 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1148 * Additional usability improvements
1151 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1152 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1153 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1154 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1155 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1158 * New Maemo port with:
1159 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1160 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1163 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1166 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1167 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1168 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1169 * Support for latest iSight models
1172 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1173 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1176 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1177 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1178 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1179 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1180 The old image video output has been removed.
1181 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1182 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1185 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1193 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1194 --------------------------------------
1200 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1201 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1202 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1203 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1204 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1205 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1206 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1208 Various fixes to the following modules:
1211 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1212 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1213 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1215 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1220 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1221 ---------------------------------
1224 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1225 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1228 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1229 ---------------------------------
1232 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1235 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1238 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1239 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1240 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1241 main controller window.
1242 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1245 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1250 * Updates of other localizations
1253 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1254 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1255 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1256 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1257 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1260 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1261 ---------------------------------
1264 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1266 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1269 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1270 --------------------------------
1275 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1276 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1279 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1280 --------------------------------
1282 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1283 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1286 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1289 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1290 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1293 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1294 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1297 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1298 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1299 * Various fixed in playlist
1302 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1305 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1308 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1309 ------------------------------------
1311 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1312 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1315 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1316 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1317 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1320 * Stability fix for the video output.
1323 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1324 --------------------------------
1327 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1328 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1329 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1330 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1331 * Fixed update system bugs
1332 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1335 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1336 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1337 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1338 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1339 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1340 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1341 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1342 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1343 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1344 modern Mac OS X versions
1347 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1348 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1350 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1351 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1354 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1355 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1356 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1357 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1358 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1359 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1362 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1363 --------------------------------
1365 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1366 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1367 * Multiple bugfixes.
1370 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1371 --------------------------------
1373 * Multiple bug fixes.
1376 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1377 ---------------------------------
1381 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1382 recent to work correctly
1383 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1384 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1385 edit the ".hosts" file.
1386 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1387 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1388 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1389 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1390 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1391 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1392 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1393 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1394 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1395 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1396 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1397 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1398 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1399 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1400 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1401 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1402 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1403 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1404 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1405 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1406 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1407 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1408 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1409 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1410 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1411 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1412 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1413 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1414 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1415 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1416 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1417 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1418 and postproc modules.
1419 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1420 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1421 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1422 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1424 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1425 filter. For example:
1426 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1427 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1429 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1430 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1436 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1438 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1439 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1442 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1443 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1445 * Shoutcast TV listings
1446 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1448 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1449 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1451 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1454 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1455 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1456 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1457 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1458 * JACK audio input support
1459 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1460 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1461 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1462 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1463 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1464 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1465 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1466 (available as a separate download).
1467 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1468 * RTMP input support
1469 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1470 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1471 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1473 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1474 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1477 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1478 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1479 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1480 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1482 * APEv1/2 tags support
1483 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1484 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1486 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1487 * TiVo Series 2 support
1488 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1493 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1494 * Flash Screen Video support
1495 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1496 * DosBox Capture support
1497 * Karl Morton's Video support
1498 * limited atrac3 support
1500 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1501 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1502 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1503 * H.264 PAFF support
1504 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1505 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1506 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1507 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1508 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1511 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1512 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1513 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1514 * AQTitle subtitles support
1515 * MKV USF subtitles support
1516 * HTML-based subtitles support
1517 * MPSub subtitles support
1518 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1519 * MPL2 subtitles support
1520 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1521 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1522 * Realtext subtitle support
1523 * DKS subtitle support
1524 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1525 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1528 * Flash Screen Video support
1529 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1531 Video outputs and filters:
1532 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1533 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1534 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1535 * New puzzle video output filter
1536 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1537 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1539 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1540 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1541 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1542 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1543 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1544 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1545 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1546 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1547 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1548 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1549 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1550 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1551 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1552 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1554 Audio outputs and filters:
1555 * Replay gain support
1556 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1557 new scaletempo audio filter)
1558 * New spatializer audio filter
1559 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1562 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1563 * New RTP payload formats:
1564 * Speex voice audio codec
1565 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1566 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1567 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1568 * DCCP transport for RTP
1569 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1574 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1575 end-user suitable way.
1576 * Improved user interaction
1577 * Improved mouse gestures
1578 * Vastly improved Update checker
1579 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1581 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1582 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1584 * Improved video output features
1585 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1586 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1587 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1588 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1589 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1591 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1592 if libncursesw is available.
1593 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1594 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1595 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1597 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1598 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1599 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1600 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1601 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1602 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1603 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1604 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1607 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1608 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1609 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1612 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1613 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1614 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1615 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1616 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1617 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1620 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1621 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1631 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1632 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1633 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1636 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1637 ----------------------------------
1640 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1643 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1644 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1645 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1646 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1647 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1648 * Updated Polish translation
1651 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1652 ----------------------------------
1655 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1656 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1657 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1660 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1661 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1662 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1663 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1664 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1665 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1666 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1667 to an unexpected application termination
1668 * New Serbian translation
1669 * Updated Romanian translation
1672 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1673 ----------------------------------
1676 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1677 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1678 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1679 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1680 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1681 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1682 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1683 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1686 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1687 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1688 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1689 * Fixed AAC resampling
1690 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1691 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1694 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1695 ----------------------------------
1698 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1699 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1700 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1701 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1702 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1705 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1706 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1707 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1708 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1709 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1712 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1713 ----------------------------------
1716 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1717 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1720 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1721 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1722 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1723 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1725 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1729 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1732 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1735 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1738 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1741 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1742 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1743 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1744 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1745 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1747 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1748 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1749 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1750 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1753 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1756 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1757 ----------------------------------
1760 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1761 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1762 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1764 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1765 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1767 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1768 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1771 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1773 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1774 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1775 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1776 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1777 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1778 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1779 two different movies
1780 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1781 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1782 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1785 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1788 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1789 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1790 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1791 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1794 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1795 ----------------------------------
1797 Various bugfixes, notably:
1798 * Windows Vista compatibility
1799 * Cropping in Direct3D
1800 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1801 * RSS filter string overflow
1803 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1805 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1806 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1809 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1810 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1813 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1816 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1819 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1822 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1823 ----------------------------------
1825 Various bugfixes, notably:
1826 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1827 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1828 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1829 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1830 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1831 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1834 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1835 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1838 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1840 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1841 * Diverse usability improvements
1842 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1843 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1844 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1847 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1848 ---------------------------------
1850 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1851 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1854 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1857 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1858 --------------------------------
1861 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1864 * Support for RTSP authentication
1865 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1866 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1867 * ATSC support for DVB input
1868 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1869 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1870 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1873 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1874 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1875 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1876 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1877 * Matroska WavPack support
1878 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1879 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1880 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1883 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1884 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1885 * Improved libcaca support
1889 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1890 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1892 * Systray support in skins
1894 * Support for Apple Remote control
1895 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1896 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1897 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1898 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1900 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1903 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1904 Windows 9x/ME users:
1905 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1906 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1907 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1908 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1909 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1911 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1912 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1921 * Updates to the libvlc API
1922 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1925 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1926 --------------------------------
1929 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1930 * Support for downloading updates
1934 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1935 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1936 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1937 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1939 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1940 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1941 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1944 * Cook (Real audio) support
1946 Playlist / Services discovery:
1947 * XSPF playlist support
1949 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1952 * New JACK audio output
1955 * New video filters:
1956 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1957 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1958 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1959 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1960 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1961 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1964 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1967 * System to inform the user and request information
1968 - HTTP authentication
1972 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1973 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1974 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1977 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1978 - Improved playlist handling
1979 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1981 - Embedded Video output
1982 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1983 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1984 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1985 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1986 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1988 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1989 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1992 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1995 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1996 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1997 * Growl "Now playing" support
2000 * Ability to log to syslog
2001 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2004 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2006 * A bit more automatic testing
2009 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2010 ---------------------------------
2013 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2014 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2017 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2018 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2021 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2024 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2025 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2031 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2034 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2035 --------------------------------
2038 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2042 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2043 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2044 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2047 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2048 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2049 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2050 * GnomeVFS input module
2051 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2052 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2055 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2056 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2057 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2060 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2061 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2067 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2068 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2071 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2072 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2073 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2076 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2078 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2079 - New extended controls panel
2080 - New bookmarks window
2081 - Fixed playlist sorting
2082 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2084 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2085 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2086 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2087 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2091 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2092 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2094 - Include macro to include other files
2098 * Should now work outside IE as well
2101 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2104 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2105 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2108 The following languages were added:
2112 * Simplified Chinese
2113 The following languages were re-added:
2117 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2118 --------------------------------
2121 * Rewrite of the playlist
2123 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2124 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2125 * Preferences improvements:
2126 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2127 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2129 * Core image manipulation support
2130 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2131 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2132 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2133 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2134 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2135 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2136 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2137 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2138 * Access filter architecture
2139 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2140 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2144 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2145 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2146 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2147 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2148 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2149 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2150 * Massive Matroska improvements
2151 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2153 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2154 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2155 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2156 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2157 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2159 Decoders / Encoders:
2160 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2161 * PNG decoder/encoder
2162 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2163 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2166 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2169 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2170 * Brand new SAP module
2171 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2172 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2173 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2174 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2175 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2176 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2180 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2183 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2184 * Image file video output (png)
2185 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2186 * Improvements to wall video filter
2187 * Support for font color and opacity
2193 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2194 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2195 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2199 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2200 - Improved preferences
2201 - Improvements to the wizard
2202 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2204 - Redesigned playlist
2205 - Improved preferences
2207 - Support for multiple actions
2210 - Support for the new playlist system
2212 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2215 * Screensaver disabling fix
2216 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2217 * Support for no-decoration windows
2220 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2221 * The OpenGL video output is back
2222 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2223 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2224 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2225 is not yet available in the new module
2226 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2229 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2238 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2241 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2244 The following languages were added:
2250 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2251 --------------------------------
2254 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2255 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2258 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2259 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2260 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2263 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2266 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2269 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2272 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2273 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2274 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2278 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2280 * Support of playlist group announcement
2283 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2284 --------------------------------
2287 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2288 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2289 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2290 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2291 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2292 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2295 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2296 (Stream your desktop)
2297 * Improved DVD support:
2298 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2299 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2300 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2301 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2302 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2303 (selection of titles/chapters).
2306 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2307 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2308 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2309 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2310 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2311 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2312 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2313 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2314 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2315 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2318 * G.726 audio support
2319 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2320 * MPEG-4 text support
2321 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2322 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2323 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2327 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2328 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2329 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2330 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2331 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2332 * DVB subtitles encoder
2333 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2334 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2336 * Text track muxing for mp4
2337 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2338 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2339 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2340 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2341 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2342 * Improved ASF muxer
2344 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2345 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2346 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2349 * New audio equalizer filter
2350 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2351 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2352 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2353 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2356 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2357 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2358 with support for effects.
2359 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2360 - New filters can be streamed.
2361 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2362 - Centralized scaling and blending
2364 - "time", to display current time
2365 - "marq", to display a marquee
2368 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2369 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2370 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2371 * A few skins2 improvements
2372 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2373 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2374 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2375 * Improved CORBA control module
2378 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2379 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2380 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2383 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2384 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2385 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2388 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2389 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2390 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2391 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2392 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2395 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2398 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2399 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2402 * Server/client network synchronization module
2403 * VBrick streams fully supported
2404 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2408 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2409 --------------------------------
2412 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2413 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2414 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2415 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2418 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2419 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2420 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2421 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2422 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2423 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2424 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2427 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2428 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2429 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2430 * Improved directory access module.
2431 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2432 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2433 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2434 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2435 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2438 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2439 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2440 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2443 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2444 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2445 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2448 * Improved session announcement system.
2449 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2450 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2451 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2452 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2453 * Improved transrater.
2454 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2455 * New configuration system.
2456 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2459 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2460 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2461 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2462 * Supports scheduling.
2463 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2464 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2467 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2468 - Ability to embed video output.
2469 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2470 - Lots of improvements.
2471 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2472 - New design and set of icons.
2473 - Ability to embed video output.
2474 - Support for hotkeys.
2475 - Support for bookmarks.
2477 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2478 - Better hotkeys handling.
2481 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2482 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2483 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2484 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2487 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2488 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2489 * Improved Windows installer.
2495 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2496 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2499 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2500 ---------------------------------
2503 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2504 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2507 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2508 --------------------------------
2511 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2512 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2515 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2516 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2517 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2518 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2521 * Internal improvments
2522 * Improved import/export
2525 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2527 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2528 small and strange formats.
2530 * New MOD audio demux.
2531 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2532 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2533 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2534 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2537 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2538 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2539 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2545 * New opengl video output plugin.
2548 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2549 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2552 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2553 --------------------------------
2556 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2557 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2558 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2559 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2560 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2561 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2562 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2563 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2566 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2571 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2572 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2573 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2574 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2575 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2576 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2577 * Better Icecast support.
2578 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2579 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2582 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2583 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2584 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2585 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2586 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2587 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2588 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2591 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2592 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2593 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2594 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2595 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2596 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2597 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2598 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2599 * Preliminary RTP support.
2600 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2605 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2606 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2608 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2609 - Improvements and help in preferences
2610 - New streaming wizard
2611 - Revised Disc Open menu
2613 - Improvements of the standard pages
2614 - Support for new commands
2615 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2618 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2619 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2622 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2623 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2624 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2625 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2626 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2627 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2628 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2629 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2630 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2633 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2635 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2636 * Support for Panther.
2637 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2638 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2641 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2642 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2643 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2644 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2645 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2646 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2647 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2648 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2651 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2652 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2653 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2656 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2659 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2660 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2661 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2662 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2665 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2666 --------------------------------
2669 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2672 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2673 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2676 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2677 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2680 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2683 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2684 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2687 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2690 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2693 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2694 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2698 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2699 --------------------------------
2702 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2703 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2707 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2708 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2709 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2711 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2712 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2715 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2718 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2721 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2722 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2726 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2727 --------------------------------
2730 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2731 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2735 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2736 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2737 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2738 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2739 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2742 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2743 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2744 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2747 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2748 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2749 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2752 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2753 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2754 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2755 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2756 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2759 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2760 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2761 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2764 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2767 * Improved build system.
2768 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2769 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2770 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2771 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2774 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2775 --------------------------------
2778 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2781 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2782 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2783 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2784 * Video 4 Linux support
2785 * CD Digital Audio support
2786 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2789 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2790 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2791 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2792 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2795 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2796 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2797 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2798 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2799 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2800 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2801 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2804 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2805 * New HTTP remote control interface
2808 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2809 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2810 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2811 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2812 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2815 * New reset option for the preferences
2816 * You can set your language in the prefences
2817 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2818 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2819 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2820 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2823 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2824 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2825 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2828 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2829 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2830 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2831 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2832 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2833 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2834 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2835 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2836 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2837 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2840 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2841 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2842 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2843 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2844 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2845 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2846 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2849 * Interface localization
2850 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2851 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2852 * New full-featured Preferences window
2855 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2856 --------------------------------
2859 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2860 * support for skins at the interface level
2861 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2862 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2863 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2864 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2865 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2868 * fixed HTTP redirects
2869 * support for opening an entire directory
2870 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2871 * new video4linux access plug-in
2872 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2875 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2876 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2877 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2880 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2881 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2882 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2883 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2884 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2885 * new codec for raw I420 video
2886 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2889 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2890 (although it still misses some important features)
2891 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2894 * new HTTP output support
2895 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2896 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2899 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2902 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2905 * reorderable playlist
2906 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2907 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2908 * support for mono audio output devices
2909 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2910 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2911 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2912 * the messages window remembers more lines
2913 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2914 * http and ogg stream output options
2915 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2918 * new skinnable interface
2919 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2921 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2922 * support for FLAC audio format
2923 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2925 * network tab in the interface
2926 * "apply" handling in preferences
2929 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2930 ---------------------------------
2933 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2934 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2935 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2936 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2938 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2939 * DTS S/PDIF support
2942 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2943 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2944 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2945 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2948 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2949 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2952 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2955 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2958 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2960 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2961 * rc interface is now fully useable
2962 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2965 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2966 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2967 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2968 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2969 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2971 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2972 * support for mouse gestures
2973 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2976 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2977 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2980 * improved ID3 tag detection
2981 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2982 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2983 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2985 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2988 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2989 ---------------------------------
2992 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2993 English was set as the preferred language
2996 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2997 --------------------------------
3000 * new mouse gesture interface
3001 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3005 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3006 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3007 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3010 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3011 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3015 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3018 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3019 without the user consent
3022 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3024 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3025 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3026 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3029 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3030 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3031 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3032 * playlist enhancements
3033 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3034 * new step forward/step backward commands
3035 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3036 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3037 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3040 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3041 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3042 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3045 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3046 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3049 * native video output is working again
3050 * only commandline interface support
3051 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3054 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3055 --------------------------------
3058 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3059 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3060 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3061 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3062 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3063 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3064 and A/52 streams are supported)
3065 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3070 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3071 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3072 * VCD entry points support
3073 * VCD image file support
3076 * support for *.asf format
3077 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3078 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3079 * support for ogg encapsulation
3080 * support for raw DV format
3081 * support for *.wav format
3082 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3085 Stream discovery & playlists:
3086 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3087 * support for .m3u file format
3088 * support for .asx file format
3089 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3092 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3093 (only available with the .avi demux)
3094 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3095 * support for raw PCM data
3096 * support for Cinepak video codec
3097 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3098 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3099 * support for Xvid codec
3100 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3101 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3102 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3104 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3106 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3109 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3112 * new WxWindows interface
3113 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3114 device and the channels configuration
3115 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3116 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3117 format that VLC can play
3118 * new swedish translation
3119 * enhancements of the playlist window
3120 * new messages window to see debug info
3121 * fixed a few crashes
3124 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3125 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3126 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3127 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working