1 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
9 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
10 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
13 * Multiple files are supported from RAR files
14 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
15 * DVB-S scanning support
16 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
17 * Support for VDR recordings
18 * Blu-Ray integration with libbluray
19 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
22 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
23 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback
26 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
29 * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib).
30 * Ogg seeking improvements
33 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
34 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
35 * Qt: effects dialogs reordering
36 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
39 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
42 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
45 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
48 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
49 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
50 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
53 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
54 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
55 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
56 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
57 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
58 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
61 * New capabilities for libVLC:
62 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
65 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
66 ----------------------------------
69 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
71 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
74 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
77 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
78 * Various fixes for Windows
81 * New Armenian translation
82 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
83 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
86 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
87 --------------------------------
90 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
92 * Fix folders opening from the interface
95 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
96 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
99 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
100 --------------------------------
103 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
104 * fix for podcasts parsing
105 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
108 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
109 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
112 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
113 * fix m3u playlists exports
116 * fix video autoresize behaviour
119 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
122 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
125 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
128 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
131 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
132 --------------------------------
135 * Avformat fps displaying fix
136 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
139 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
140 of mono streams, especially on Windows
143 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
144 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
145 * fix console output encoding
147 Interface and extensions:
148 * Youtube and other scripts updates
149 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
152 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
153 --------------------------------
156 * New capabilities for libVLC:
157 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
158 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
159 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
160 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
161 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
162 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
163 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
164 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
165 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
166 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
167 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
168 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
169 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
170 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
171 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
175 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
176 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
177 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
178 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
179 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
182 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
185 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
186 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
187 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
191 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
194 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
195 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
196 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
199 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
200 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
201 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
202 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
205 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
206 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
209 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
210 --------------------------------
212 Important changes for users:
213 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
214 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
216 Important changes for packagers:
217 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
218 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
219 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
220 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
221 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
223 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
225 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
226 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
227 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
228 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
229 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
232 * Support for the sftp protocol
233 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
234 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
235 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
236 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
237 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
240 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
241 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
242 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
244 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
245 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
246 * Invmem module improvements
247 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
248 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
249 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
250 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
251 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
252 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
253 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
254 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
255 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
256 * Support for VP8 codec
257 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
260 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
261 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
262 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
263 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
264 * Various EGP improvements
265 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
266 * Metadata and cover art improvements
269 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
270 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
271 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
272 * Podcast images are now displayed
275 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
276 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
277 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
278 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
279 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
280 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
281 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
282 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
283 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
284 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
285 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
288 * New content extensions lua framework
291 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
292 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
293 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
294 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
295 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
296 * NEON assembly audio converter module
297 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
300 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
301 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
302 * Service discovery based on libudev
303 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
306 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
307 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
308 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
309 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
310 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
311 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
312 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
315 * New smem module, streaming to memory
316 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
317 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
320 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
322 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
323 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
326 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
329 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
330 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
331 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
332 by Andy Matuschak et al.
333 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
334 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
335 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
338 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
339 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
342 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
343 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
344 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
348 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
349 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
350 * Improved Solaris port
353 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
354 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
357 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
358 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
359 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
360 * transrate: broken since too long
361 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
362 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
363 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
364 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
365 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
366 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
367 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
368 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
369 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
370 * cddax: use cdda instead.
371 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
372 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
373 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
374 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
377 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
378 --------------------------------
381 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
383 Decoders/Packetizers:
384 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
387 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
388 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
389 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
390 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
391 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
394 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
395 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
398 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
399 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
402 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
403 and Walloon translations updated
404 * Sinhala translation started
407 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
408 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
411 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
412 --------------------------------
415 * SubRip extra styles improvements
416 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
419 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
422 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
423 increase performance and fix x264 issues
426 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
427 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
428 Russian, Slovak translation updates
429 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
432 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
433 --------------------------------
436 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
437 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
440 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
441 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
444 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
445 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
448 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
451 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
452 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
455 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
456 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
459 * New Walloon translation
460 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
463 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
464 --------------------------------
467 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
468 regressions in most popular drivers
469 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
472 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
473 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
474 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
477 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
478 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
481 * Update for appletrailers lua script
482 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
483 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
484 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
485 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
488 * New udev module for linux
491 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
494 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
497 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
498 --------------------------------
501 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
502 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
503 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
506 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
507 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
510 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
511 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
514 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
517 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
518 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
519 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
520 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
523 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
524 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
525 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
526 - no support for Goom and SDL
527 - limited text rendering support
528 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
531 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
532 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
533 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
534 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
535 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
536 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
537 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
538 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
539 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
543 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
546 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
549 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
550 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
551 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
552 Arabic and French translation updates
555 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
556 --------------------------------
559 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
560 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
561 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
562 * Fix Dailymotion access script
563 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
564 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
567 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
568 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
571 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
572 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
573 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
576 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
579 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
580 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
583 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
584 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
585 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
586 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
587 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
588 * Fix various crashes
591 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
593 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
596 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
597 ---------------------------------
601 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
602 See 'Access:' for more info.
603 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
606 * Instantaneous pausing
607 * Frame-by-Frame playback
608 * Finer speed control
609 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
610 * Timeshift for most medias
611 * RTSP trickplay support
612 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
615 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
616 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
617 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
618 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
619 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
620 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
621 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
622 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
623 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
624 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
627 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
628 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
629 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
630 * Metadata for mod files are supported
631 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
632 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
633 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
636 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
637 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
640 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
641 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
642 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
643 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
644 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
645 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
646 * DVB scanning on linux
647 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
648 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
649 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
650 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
651 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
652 * MTP device access on Unix
653 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
654 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
657 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
658 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
659 Windows and Mac OS X.
662 * Export the playlist in HTML
663 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
664 * Better metadata handling and reading
666 Linux/Windows interface:
667 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
668 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
669 * Recently played items list
670 * Interface toolbar customizations
671 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
674 - Improvements on many dialogs
675 - New dialog for plugins listing
676 - Fixed-size mode for videos
677 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
678 * Better integration in GTK environments
681 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
682 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
683 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
684 * Additional usability improvements
687 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
688 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
689 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
690 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
691 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
694 * New Maemo port with:
695 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
696 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
699 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
702 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
703 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
704 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
705 * Support for latest iSight models
708 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
709 * Surround support for PulseAudio
712 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
713 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
714 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
715 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
716 The old image video output has been removed.
717 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
718 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
721 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
729 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
730 --------------------------------------
736 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
737 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
738 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
739 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
740 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
741 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
742 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
744 Various fixes to the following modules:
747 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
748 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
751 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
756 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
757 ---------------------------------
760 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
761 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
764 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
765 ---------------------------------
768 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
771 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
774 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
775 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
776 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
777 main controller window.
778 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
781 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
786 * Updates of other localizations
789 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
790 * Lots of small bugfixes.
791 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
792 * Telnet fixes on Windows
793 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
796 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
797 ---------------------------------
800 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
802 Bunch of small bugfixes.
805 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
806 --------------------------------
811 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
812 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
815 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
816 --------------------------------
818 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
819 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
822 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
825 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
826 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
829 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
830 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
833 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
834 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
835 * Various fixed in playlist
838 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
841 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
844 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
845 ------------------------------------
847 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
848 * Fixes several memory leaks.
851 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
852 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
853 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
856 * Stability fix for the video output.
859 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
860 --------------------------------
863 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
864 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
865 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
866 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
867 * Fixed update system bugs
868 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
871 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
872 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
873 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
874 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
875 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
876 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
877 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
878 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
879 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
880 modern Mac OS X versions
883 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
884 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
886 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
887 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
890 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
891 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
892 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
893 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
894 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
895 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
898 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
899 --------------------------------
901 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
902 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
906 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
907 --------------------------------
909 * Multiple bug fixes.
912 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
913 ---------------------------------
917 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
918 recent to work correctly
919 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
920 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
921 edit the ".hosts" file.
922 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
923 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
924 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
925 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
926 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
927 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
928 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
929 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
930 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
931 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
932 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
933 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
934 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
935 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
936 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
937 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
938 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
939 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
940 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
941 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
942 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
943 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
944 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
945 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
946 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
947 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
948 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
949 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
950 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
951 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
952 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
953 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
954 and postproc modules.
955 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
956 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
957 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
958 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
960 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
962 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
963 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
965 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
966 * Glide video output module has been removed.
972 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
974 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
975 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
978 * Vastly improved playlist support:
979 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
981 * Shoutcast TV listings
982 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
984 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
985 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
987 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
990 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
991 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
992 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
993 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
994 * JACK audio input support
995 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
996 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
997 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
998 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
999 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1000 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1001 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1002 (available as a separate download).
1003 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1004 * RTMP input support
1005 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1006 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1007 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1009 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1010 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1013 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1014 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1015 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1016 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1018 * APEv1/2 tags support
1019 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1020 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1022 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1023 * TiVo Series 2 support
1024 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1029 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1030 * Flash Screen Video support
1031 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1032 * DosBox Capture support
1033 * Karl Morton's Video support
1034 * limited atrac3 support
1036 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1037 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1038 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1039 * H.264 PAFF support
1040 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1041 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1042 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1043 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1044 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1047 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1048 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1049 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1050 * AQTitle subtitles support
1051 * MKV USF subtitles support
1052 * HTML-based subtitles support
1053 * MPSub subtitles support
1054 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1055 * MPL2 subtitles support
1056 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1057 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1058 * Realtext subtitle support
1059 * DKS subtitle support
1060 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1061 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1064 * Flash Screen Video support
1065 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1067 Video outputs and filters:
1068 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1069 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1070 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1071 * New puzzle video output filter
1072 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1073 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1075 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1076 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1077 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1078 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1079 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1080 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1081 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1082 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1083 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1084 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1085 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1086 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1087 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1088 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1090 Audio outputs and filters:
1091 * Replay gain support
1092 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1093 new scaletempo audio filter)
1094 * New spatializer audio filter
1095 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1098 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1099 * New RTP payload formats:
1100 * Speex voice audio codec
1101 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1102 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1103 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1104 * DCCP transport for RTP
1105 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1110 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1111 end-user suitable way.
1112 * Improved user interaction
1113 * Improved mouse gestures
1114 * Vastly improved Update checker
1115 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1117 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1118 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1120 * Improved video output features
1121 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1122 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1123 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1124 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1125 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1127 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1128 if libncursesw is available.
1129 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1130 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1131 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1133 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1134 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1135 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1136 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1137 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1138 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1139 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1140 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1143 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1144 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1145 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1148 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1149 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1150 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1151 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1152 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1153 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1156 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1157 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1167 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1168 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1169 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1172 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1173 ----------------------------------
1176 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1179 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1180 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1181 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1182 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1183 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1184 * Updated Polish translation
1187 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1188 ----------------------------------
1191 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1192 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1193 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1196 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1197 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1198 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1199 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1200 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1201 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1202 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1203 to an unexpected application termination
1204 * New Serbian translation
1205 * Updated Romanian translation
1208 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1209 ----------------------------------
1212 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1213 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1214 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1215 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1216 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1217 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1218 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1219 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1222 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1223 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1224 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1225 * Fixed AAC resampling
1226 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1227 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1230 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1231 ----------------------------------
1234 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1235 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1236 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1237 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1238 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1241 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1242 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1243 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1244 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1245 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1248 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1249 ----------------------------------
1252 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1253 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1256 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1257 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1258 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1259 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1261 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1265 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1268 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1271 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1274 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1277 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1278 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1279 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1280 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1281 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1283 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1284 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1285 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1286 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1289 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1292 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1293 ----------------------------------
1296 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1297 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1298 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1300 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1301 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1303 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1304 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1307 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1309 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1310 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1311 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1312 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1313 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1314 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1315 two different movies
1316 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1317 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1318 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1321 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1324 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1325 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1326 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1327 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1330 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1331 ----------------------------------
1333 Various bugfixes, notably:
1334 * Windows Vista compatibility
1335 * Cropping in Direct3D
1336 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1337 * RSS filter string overflow
1339 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1341 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1342 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1345 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1346 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1349 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1352 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1355 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1358 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1359 ----------------------------------
1361 Various bugfixes, notably:
1362 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1363 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1364 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1365 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1366 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1367 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1370 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1371 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1374 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1376 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1377 * Diverse usability improvements
1378 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1379 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1380 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1383 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1384 ---------------------------------
1386 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1387 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1390 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1393 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1394 --------------------------------
1397 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1400 * Support for RTSP authentication
1401 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1402 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1403 * ATSC support for DVB input
1404 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1405 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1406 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1409 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1410 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1411 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1412 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1413 * Matroska WavPack support
1414 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1415 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1416 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1419 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1420 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1421 * Improved libcaca support
1425 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1426 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1428 * Systray support in skins
1430 * Support for Apple Remote control
1431 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1432 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1433 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1434 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1436 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1439 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1440 Windows 9x/ME users:
1441 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1442 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1443 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1444 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1445 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1447 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1448 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1457 * Updates to the libvlc API
1458 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1461 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1462 --------------------------------
1465 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1466 * Support for downloading updates
1470 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1471 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1472 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1473 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1475 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1476 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1477 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1480 * Cook (Real audio) support
1482 Playlist / Services discovery:
1483 * XSPF playlist support
1485 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1488 * New JACK audio output
1491 * New video filters:
1492 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1493 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1494 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1495 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1496 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1497 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1500 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1503 * System to inform the user and request information
1504 - HTTP authentication
1508 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1509 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1510 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1513 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1514 - Improved playlist handling
1515 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1517 - Embedded Video output
1518 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1519 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1520 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1521 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1522 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1524 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1525 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1528 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1531 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1532 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1533 * Growl "Now playing" support
1536 * Ability to log to syslog
1537 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1540 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1542 * A bit more automatic testing
1545 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1546 ---------------------------------
1549 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1550 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1553 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1554 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1557 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1560 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1561 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1567 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1570 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1571 --------------------------------
1574 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1578 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1579 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1580 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1583 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1584 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1585 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1586 * GnomeVFS input module
1587 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1588 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1591 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1592 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1593 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1596 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1597 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1603 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1604 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1607 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1608 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1609 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1612 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1614 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1615 - New extended controls panel
1616 - New bookmarks window
1617 - Fixed playlist sorting
1618 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1620 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1621 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1622 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1623 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1627 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1628 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1630 - Include macro to include other files
1634 * Should now work outside IE as well
1637 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1640 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1641 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1644 The following languages were added:
1648 * Simplified Chinese
1649 The following languages were re-added:
1653 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1654 --------------------------------
1657 * Rewrite of the playlist
1659 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1660 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1661 * Preferences improvements:
1662 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1663 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1665 * Core image manipulation support
1666 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1667 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1668 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1669 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1670 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1671 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1672 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1673 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1674 * Access filter architecture
1675 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1676 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1680 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1681 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1682 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1683 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1684 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1685 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1686 * Massive Matroska improvements
1687 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1689 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1690 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1691 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1692 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1693 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1695 Decoders / Encoders:
1696 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1697 * PNG decoder/encoder
1698 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1699 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1702 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1705 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1706 * Brand new SAP module
1707 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1708 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1709 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1710 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1711 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1712 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1716 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1719 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1720 * Image file video output (png)
1721 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1722 * Improvements to wall video filter
1723 * Support for font color and opacity
1729 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1730 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1731 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1735 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1736 - Improved preferences
1737 - Improvements to the wizard
1738 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1740 - Redesigned playlist
1741 - Improved preferences
1743 - Support for multiple actions
1746 - Support for the new playlist system
1748 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1751 * Screensaver disabling fix
1752 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1753 * Support for no-decoration windows
1756 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1757 * The OpenGL video output is back
1758 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1759 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1760 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1761 is not yet available in the new module
1762 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1765 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1774 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1777 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1780 The following languages were added:
1786 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1787 --------------------------------
1790 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1791 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1794 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1795 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1796 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1799 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1802 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1805 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1808 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1809 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1810 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1814 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1816 * Support of playlist group announcement
1819 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1820 --------------------------------
1823 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1824 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1825 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1826 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1827 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1828 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1831 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1832 (Stream your desktop)
1833 * Improved DVD support:
1834 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1835 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1836 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1837 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1838 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1839 (selection of titles/chapters).
1842 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1843 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1844 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1845 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1846 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1847 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1848 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1849 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1850 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1851 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1854 * G.726 audio support
1855 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1856 * MPEG-4 text support
1857 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1858 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1859 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1863 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1864 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1865 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1866 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1867 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1868 * DVB subtitles encoder
1869 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1870 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1872 * Text track muxing for mp4
1873 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1874 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1875 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1876 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1877 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1878 * Improved ASF muxer
1880 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1881 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1882 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1885 * New audio equalizer filter
1886 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1887 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1888 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1889 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1892 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1893 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1894 with support for effects.
1895 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1896 - New filters can be streamed.
1897 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1898 - Centralized scaling and blending
1900 - "time", to display current time
1901 - "marq", to display a marquee
1904 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1905 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1906 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1907 * A few skins2 improvements
1908 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1909 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1910 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1911 * Improved CORBA control module
1914 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1915 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1916 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1919 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1920 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1921 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1924 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1925 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1926 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1927 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1928 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1931 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1934 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1935 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1938 * Server/client network synchronization module
1939 * VBrick streams fully supported
1940 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1944 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1945 --------------------------------
1948 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1949 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1950 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1951 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1954 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1955 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1956 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1957 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1958 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1959 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1960 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1963 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1964 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1965 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1966 * Improved directory access module.
1967 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1968 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1969 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1970 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1971 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1974 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1975 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1976 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1979 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1980 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1981 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1984 * Improved session announcement system.
1985 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1986 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1987 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1988 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1989 * Improved transrater.
1990 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1991 * New configuration system.
1992 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1995 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1996 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1997 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1998 * Supports scheduling.
1999 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2000 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2003 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2004 - Ability to embed video output.
2005 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2006 - Lots of improvements.
2007 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2008 - New design and set of icons.
2009 - Ability to embed video output.
2010 - Support for hotkeys.
2011 - Support for bookmarks.
2013 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2014 - Better hotkeys handling.
2017 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2018 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2019 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2020 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2023 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2024 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2025 * Improved Windows installer.
2031 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2032 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2035 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2036 ---------------------------------
2039 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2040 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2043 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2044 --------------------------------
2047 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2048 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2051 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2052 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2053 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2054 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2057 * Internal improvments
2058 * Improved import/export
2061 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2063 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2064 small and strange formats.
2066 * New MOD audio demux.
2067 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2068 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2069 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2070 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2073 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2074 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2075 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2081 * New opengl video output plugin.
2084 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2085 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2088 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2089 --------------------------------
2092 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2093 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2094 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2095 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2096 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2097 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2098 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2099 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2102 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2107 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2108 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2109 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2110 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2111 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2112 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2113 * Better Icecast support.
2114 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2115 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2118 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2119 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2120 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2121 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2122 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2123 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2124 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2127 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2128 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2129 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2130 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2131 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2132 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2133 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2134 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2135 * Preliminary RTP support.
2136 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2141 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2142 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2144 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2145 - Improvements and help in preferences
2146 - New streaming wizard
2147 - Revised Disc Open menu
2149 - Improvements of the standard pages
2150 - Support for new commands
2151 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2154 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2155 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2158 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2159 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2160 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2161 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2162 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2163 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2164 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2165 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2166 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2169 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2171 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2172 * Support for Panther.
2173 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2174 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2177 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2178 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2179 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2180 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2181 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2182 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2183 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2184 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2187 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2188 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2189 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2192 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2195 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2196 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2197 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2198 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2201 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2202 --------------------------------
2205 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2208 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2209 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2212 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2213 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2216 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2219 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2220 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2223 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2226 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2229 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2230 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2234 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2235 --------------------------------
2238 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2239 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2243 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2244 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2245 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2247 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2248 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2251 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2254 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2257 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2258 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2262 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2263 --------------------------------
2266 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2267 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2271 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2272 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2273 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2274 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2275 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2278 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2279 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2280 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2283 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2284 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2285 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2288 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2289 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2290 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2291 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2292 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2295 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2296 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2297 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2300 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2303 * Improved build system.
2304 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2305 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2306 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2307 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2310 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2311 --------------------------------
2314 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2317 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2318 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2319 * Video 4 Linux support
2320 * CD Digital Audio support
2321 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2324 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2325 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2326 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2327 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2330 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2331 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2332 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2333 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2334 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2335 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2336 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2339 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2340 * New HTTP remote control interface
2343 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2344 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2345 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2346 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2349 * New reset option for the preferences
2350 * You can set your language in the prefences
2351 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2352 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2353 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2354 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2357 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2358 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2359 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2362 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2363 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2364 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2365 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2366 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2367 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2368 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2369 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2370 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2371 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2374 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2375 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2376 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2377 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2378 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2379 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2380 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2383 * Interface localization
2384 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2385 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2386 * New full-featured Preferences window
2389 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2390 --------------------------------
2393 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2394 * support for skins at the interface level
2395 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2396 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2397 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2398 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2399 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2402 * fixed HTTP redirects
2403 * support for opening an entire directory
2404 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2405 * new video4linux access plug-in
2406 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2409 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2410 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2411 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2414 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2415 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2416 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2417 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2418 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2419 * new codec for raw I420 video
2420 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2423 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2424 (although it still misses some important features)
2425 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2428 * new HTTP output support
2429 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2430 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2433 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2436 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2439 * reorderable playlist
2440 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2441 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2442 * support for mono audio output devices
2443 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2444 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2445 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2446 * the messages window remembers more lines
2447 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2448 * http and ogg stream output options
2449 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2452 * new skinnable interface
2453 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2455 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2456 * support for FLAC audio format
2457 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2459 * network tab in the interface
2460 * "apply" handling in preferences
2463 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2464 ---------------------------------
2467 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2468 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2469 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2470 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2472 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2473 * DTS S/PDIF support
2476 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2477 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2478 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2479 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2482 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2483 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2486 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2489 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2492 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2494 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2495 * rc interface is now fully useable
2496 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2499 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2500 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2501 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2502 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2503 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2505 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2506 * support for mouse gestures
2507 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2510 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2511 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2514 * improved ID3 tag detection
2515 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2516 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2517 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2519 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2522 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2523 ---------------------------------
2526 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2527 English was set as the preferred language
2530 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2531 --------------------------------
2534 * new mouse gesture interface
2535 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2539 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2540 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2541 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2544 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2545 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2549 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2552 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2553 without the user consent
2556 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2558 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2559 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2560 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2563 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2564 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2565 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2566 * playlist enhancements
2567 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2568 * new step forward/step backward commands
2569 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2570 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2571 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2574 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2575 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2576 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2579 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2580 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2583 * native video output is working again
2584 * only commandline interface support
2585 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2588 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2589 --------------------------------
2592 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2593 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2594 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2595 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2596 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2597 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2598 and A/52 streams are supported)
2599 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2604 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2605 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2606 * VCD entry points support
2607 * VCD image file support
2610 * support for *.asf format
2611 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2612 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2613 * support for ogg encapsulation
2614 * support for raw DV format
2615 * support for *.wav format
2616 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2619 Stream discovery & playlists:
2620 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2621 * support for .m3u file format
2622 * support for .asx file format
2623 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2626 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2627 (only available with the .avi demux)
2628 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2629 * support for raw PCM data
2630 * support for Cinepak video codec
2631 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2632 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2633 * support for Xvid codec
2634 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2635 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2636 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2638 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2640 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2643 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2646 * new WxWindows interface
2647 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2648 device and the channels configuration
2649 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2650 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2651 format that VLC can play
2652 * new swedish translation
2653 * enhancements of the playlist window
2654 * new messages window to see debug info
2655 * fixed a few crashes
2658 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2659 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2660 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2661 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working