1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
6 * New SMB access module using libdsm
7 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
8 * Improvements of cookie handling (domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
11 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
12 * Support 4:4:4 chroma sampling with VDPAU hw acceleration
15 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
18 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
21 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
24 * Support key accelerators
27 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
28 --------------------------------
31 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
34 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
35 * Add extensions download from external repositories
36 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
37 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
40 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
41 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
42 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
43 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
45 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
46 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
49 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
50 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
51 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
52 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
53 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
54 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
55 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
56 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
57 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
58 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
59 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
60 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
61 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
62 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
63 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
64 * New jpeg image decoder
65 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
66 * New SVG image decoder
67 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
68 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
69 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
72 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
73 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
74 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
75 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
76 * New png image encoder using libpng
79 * New CAF format module
80 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
81 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
82 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
83 synchronization and tracks exclusion
84 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
85 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
88 * Basic support for WebVTT
89 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
90 * Support HDPR TS files
91 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
92 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
93 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
94 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
95 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
96 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
97 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
98 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
99 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
100 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
101 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
102 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
103 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
104 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
107 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
108 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
110 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
113 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
114 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
115 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
116 * New Android native window provider module
117 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
118 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
119 * Add mmal based video output
122 * New Oldmovie effect filter
123 * New VHS effect filter
124 * New Freeze effect filter
125 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
126 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
127 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
130 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
131 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
132 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
133 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
134 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
135 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
138 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
139 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
140 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
141 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
142 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
143 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
144 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
145 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
146 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
148 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
149 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
150 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
153 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
154 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
157 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
158 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
161 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
162 * Add record button in Qt menus
163 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
164 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
165 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and MacOS
168 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
169 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
170 * Fixes for advanced preferences
171 * Option to increase playlist font size
174 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
175 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
176 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
179 * ios video output: use ios2
180 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
181 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
184 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
185 --------------------------------
188 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
191 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
194 * Fix DVD playback regression
195 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
196 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
199 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
200 --------------------------------
203 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
204 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
207 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
208 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
209 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
212 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
213 by updating codec libraries
214 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
215 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
216 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
219 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
220 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
221 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
222 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
225 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
226 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
229 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
230 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
231 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
232 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
233 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
236 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
237 * Fix record file names
240 * Fix minimal size possible on start
241 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
242 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
243 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
244 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
247 * Fix album art display on Windows
250 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
251 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
252 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
253 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
254 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
255 and Simplified Chinese translations
256 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
259 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
260 --------------------------------
263 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
264 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
265 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
266 audio devices on OS X
267 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
268 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
271 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
272 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
275 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
276 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
279 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
282 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
283 * Improve A-B loop control
284 * Fix album art update when changing media
287 * Add a language option in the interface
288 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
289 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
290 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
291 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
292 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
293 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
294 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
297 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
300 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
301 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
302 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
303 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
306 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
307 --------------------------------
310 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
312 * Fix some subtitles track selection
315 * VP9 support in WebM
316 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
317 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
320 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
321 * Support Speex in ogg files
322 * Fix some .mov playlists support
323 * Support Alac in mkv
324 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
325 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
328 * Fix DVB options parsing
329 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
330 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
333 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
334 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
337 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
338 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
341 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
342 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
343 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
344 * Fix play after drag'n drop
345 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
348 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
349 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
352 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
353 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
356 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
357 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
358 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
359 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
360 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
361 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
362 * Improves interface resizings
365 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
366 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
367 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
368 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
369 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
373 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
374 --------------------------------
377 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
378 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
379 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
380 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
381 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
383 3rd party libraries (contrib):
384 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
387 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
388 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
389 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
390 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
391 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
394 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
395 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
399 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
400 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
401 * Support for Ulead DV audio
402 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
403 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
404 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
405 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
406 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
407 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
408 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
409 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
410 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
411 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
414 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
415 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
416 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
419 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
420 remove support for previous OS X releases
421 * Major improvements in DASH support
422 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
423 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
424 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
425 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
426 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
427 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
428 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
429 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
430 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
431 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
432 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
435 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
436 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
437 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
438 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
439 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
440 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
441 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
442 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
443 * Support for more MJPEG streams
444 * Add support for liveleak streams
445 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
446 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
447 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
450 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
451 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
452 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
453 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
454 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
455 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
456 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
457 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
458 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
459 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
460 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
463 * New remapping channel filter
464 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
465 * New VSXu visualization plugin
466 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
467 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
468 * New gain audio filter
471 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
472 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
473 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
474 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
475 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
476 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
477 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
478 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
479 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
482 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
483 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
484 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
485 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
486 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
487 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
488 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
491 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
492 * Options support for AVIO output module
493 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
494 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
495 * Livehttp stream encryption support
496 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
497 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
500 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
503 * configurable password for the HTTP server
504 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
505 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
506 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
507 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
508 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
509 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
510 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
514 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
517 * Add support for multiple video outputs
518 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
520 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
521 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
522 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
523 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
524 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
525 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
526 VLC's internal volume level
527 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
529 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
530 selection and to manage the list of presets
531 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
532 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
533 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
534 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
535 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
536 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
537 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
538 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
539 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
540 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
542 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
543 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
544 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
545 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
546 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
547 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
548 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
549 3rd party applications
550 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
551 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
552 (system-wide settings)
553 * Add support for the Video Title option
554 * Add support for the Boss Key
555 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
556 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
559 * Partial support for Qt5.0
560 * Menus modifications and improvements
561 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
562 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
563 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
564 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
565 * EPG display fixes and improvements
566 * Add SD pixmap sources
567 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
568 * Display playlist total duration
569 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
570 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
571 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
576 * Extend sliders, offsets options
577 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
578 * Numerous fixes and improvements
579 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
582 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
583 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
584 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
585 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
586 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
587 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
588 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
589 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
590 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
591 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
594 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
595 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
596 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
597 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
598 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
599 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
601 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
602 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
603 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
604 * Broken crop video filter
606 * OSD parser and menu
607 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
608 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
609 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
610 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
614 * Update of all translations
617 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
618 --------------------------------
621 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
622 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
625 * Fix modplug security issues
628 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
629 --------------------------------
633 * Fix crash in QTsound
634 * Fix screen mouse file location
635 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
638 * Fix use after free in sgimb
639 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
642 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
645 * Fix interface crashes
646 * Fix autostart playback option
647 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
650 * update Welsh translation
651 * New Kannada translation
654 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
655 --------------------------------
658 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
659 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
663 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
666 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
669 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
672 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
676 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
679 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
682 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
683 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
684 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
687 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
688 --------------------------------
691 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
694 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
697 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
698 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
699 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
700 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
701 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
702 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
705 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
706 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
707 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
708 * 3rd party codecs updates
711 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
712 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
713 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
714 in the advanced preferences panel
715 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
716 * Fix crash within the video output code
717 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
718 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
719 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
720 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
722 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
725 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
728 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
729 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
732 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
735 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
736 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
737 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
738 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
739 Dutch, Danish, translations
740 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
743 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
744 --------------------------------
747 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
750 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
751 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
752 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
755 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
756 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
757 * Fix koreus lua parser
758 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
759 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
760 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
761 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
764 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
765 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
768 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
771 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
772 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
773 * Fix Time counter UI look
774 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
777 * Fix https streaming
780 * Fix audio and video track selection:
781 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
782 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
785 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
786 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
787 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
788 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
789 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
792 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
793 --------------------------------
796 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
797 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
798 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
799 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
800 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
801 during playback on Mac OS X
804 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
805 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
806 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
809 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
810 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
811 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
812 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
813 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
816 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
817 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
818 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
819 * Support Youtube live streams
822 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
825 * Fix media info dialog update
826 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
827 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
828 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
829 * Fix album art display at start
832 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
833 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
834 * Fix menus display and behavior
835 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
836 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
837 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
838 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
839 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
840 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
841 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
844 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
845 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
846 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
847 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
848 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
849 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
850 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
851 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
852 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
855 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
856 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
857 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
858 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
859 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
862 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
863 --------------------------------
866 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
869 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
870 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
873 * Add GateKeeper support
874 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
875 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
876 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
879 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
882 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
883 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
884 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
885 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
886 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
889 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
890 --------------------------------
893 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
894 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
895 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
896 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
897 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
898 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
899 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
900 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
901 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
902 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
903 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
907 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
908 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
909 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
910 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
911 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
912 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
913 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
914 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
915 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
916 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
917 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
918 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
921 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
922 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
924 * Fix MP3 free format support
927 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
928 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
929 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
930 * Fix for DVB channels file support
931 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
934 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
935 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
937 Audio filters and output:
938 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
939 * Fix DirectSound device selection
940 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
941 * Do not apply volume in file output
942 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
943 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
946 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
947 the persistant media library
948 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
949 to the media library or the temporary playlist
950 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
951 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
952 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
953 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
954 press on the Play/Pause button
955 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
956 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
957 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
958 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
959 * Many Fullscreen fixes
960 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
961 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
962 Synchronization panel
963 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
964 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
965 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
966 * Fix crashes on exit
967 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
969 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
970 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
971 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
972 automatically reset on the first launch.
973 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
974 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
975 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
978 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
979 * Fixes for icecast SD
982 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
983 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
984 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
985 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
986 * Fix tags and file names display
987 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
990 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
991 * Fix for key events and focus loss
994 * Fix display of some buttons
995 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
996 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
999 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1000 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1001 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1004 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1005 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1006 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1007 Thai translations update
1008 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1011 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1012 --------------------------------
1015 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1016 * fix the samba module compilation
1017 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1018 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1019 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1020 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1023 * Support for MXPEG files
1024 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1025 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1028 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1029 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1030 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1033 * Fix ogm header creation
1036 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1037 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1040 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1041 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1042 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1043 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1046 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1049 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1050 * allow to hide the sidebar
1051 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1052 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1053 * noticebly faster launch time
1054 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1055 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1056 * improve track synchronization panel
1057 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1058 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1061 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1062 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1063 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1064 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1067 * fix for menus display
1068 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1069 * documentation update
1072 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1073 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1076 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1077 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1078 * Update Jamendo selections
1082 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1083 * fix a crash on VLM close
1086 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1087 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1088 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1089 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1092 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1095 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1096 ---------------------------------
1099 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1100 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1101 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1102 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1103 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1104 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1105 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1106 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1107 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1108 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1109 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1110 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1111 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1112 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1113 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1114 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1115 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1116 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1117 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1118 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1119 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1120 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1121 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1122 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1123 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1124 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1126 Important changes for packagers:
1127 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1128 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1129 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1130 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1131 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1132 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1133 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1134 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1135 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1136 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1139 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1140 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1141 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1142 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1143 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1144 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1145 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1148 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1149 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1150 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1151 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1152 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1153 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1154 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1155 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1156 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1157 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1158 * PulseAudio audio input support
1159 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1160 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1161 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1162 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1163 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1164 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1165 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1166 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1169 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1170 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1171 are notably concerned.
1172 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1173 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1174 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1175 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1176 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1177 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1178 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1179 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1180 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1181 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1182 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1183 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1184 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1185 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1186 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1189 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1190 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1191 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1192 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1193 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1194 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1195 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1196 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1197 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1198 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1199 * Improved support of tracker files
1200 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1203 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1204 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1205 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1206 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1207 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1208 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1209 and important cleanups and optimisations
1210 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1211 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1212 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1213 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1214 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1215 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1216 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1217 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1218 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1219 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1220 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1221 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1222 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1223 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1224 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1225 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1226 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1227 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1228 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1229 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1230 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1233 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1234 * New video output for iOS platform
1235 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1236 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1237 * Various vmem improvements
1238 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1239 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1240 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1241 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1242 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1243 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1245 Audio Output and Filters:
1246 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1247 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1248 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1249 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1250 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1251 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1252 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1253 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1254 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1255 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1258 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1259 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1260 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1261 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1262 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1263 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1264 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1265 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1266 * New anti-flickering filter
1267 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1268 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1269 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1270 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1271 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1272 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1273 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1276 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1277 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1278 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1279 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1280 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1281 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1282 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1283 * Major rework of VoD support
1284 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1285 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1286 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1287 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1288 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1289 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1290 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1291 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1292 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1293 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1296 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1297 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1300 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1301 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1302 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1303 list of available audio and video filters
1304 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1305 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1306 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1309 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1310 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1311 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1312 * id3tag: use taglib
1313 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1314 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1315 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1316 * removal of the noise filter
1317 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1318 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1319 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1320 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1323 * Update of translations for most languages.
1324 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1327 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1328 ----------------------------------
1331 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1332 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1335 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1336 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1339 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1340 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1341 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1344 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1347 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1348 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1351 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1354 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1355 ----------------------------------
1358 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1359 including support for OS X Lion
1360 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1361 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1364 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1367 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1368 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1369 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1372 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1375 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1376 ----------------------------------
1379 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1380 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1383 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1384 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1385 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1386 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1387 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1389 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1390 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1391 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1393 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1394 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1397 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1400 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1403 * Fix quitting on Linux
1404 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1408 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1411 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1414 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1415 ---------------------------------
1417 Windows and Mac OS X:
1418 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1421 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1422 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1425 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1428 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1431 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1433 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1434 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1436 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1437 * RTP output and XML export
1438 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1442 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1443 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1444 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1445 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1448 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1449 --------------------------------
1451 Windows and Mac OS X:
1452 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1455 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1458 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1459 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1460 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1461 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1462 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1463 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1466 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1467 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1471 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1472 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1473 * New Luganda Translation
1476 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1477 --------------------------------
1480 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1483 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1484 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1485 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1486 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1489 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1491 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1492 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1493 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1494 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1495 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1496 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1497 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1498 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1500 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1501 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1502 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1503 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1504 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1505 * Configure and build system improvements
1506 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1509 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1510 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1511 * New icelandic translation
1514 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1515 --------------------------------
1518 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1519 #234484 and #260719.
1522 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1523 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1524 and stability reasons
1527 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1531 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1534 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1535 ----------------------------------
1538 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1541 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1542 ---------------------------------
1545 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1546 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1547 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1548 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1551 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1554 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1555 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1556 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1557 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1560 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1561 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1562 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1564 Subtitles and renderer:
1565 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1566 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1567 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1568 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1569 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1572 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1573 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1574 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1575 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1578 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1579 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1581 Miscellaneous fixes:
1582 * KDE device solid actions
1584 * Transcode integer overflow
1585 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1586 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1589 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1590 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1591 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1594 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1595 ----------------------------------
1598 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1602 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1605 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1608 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1609 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1610 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1611 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1614 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1618 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1621 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1624 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1625 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1627 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1631 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1632 * Miscellaneous fixes
1635 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1636 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1637 French and Ukrainian
1638 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1639 * New Asturian translation
1642 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1643 ----------------------------------
1646 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1648 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1651 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1654 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1655 * Various fixes for Windows
1658 * New Armenian translation
1659 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1660 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1663 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1664 --------------------------------
1667 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1668 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1669 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1672 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1673 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1676 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1677 --------------------------------
1679 Access and demuxers:
1680 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1681 * fix for podcasts parsing
1682 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1685 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1686 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1689 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1690 * fix m3u playlists exports
1693 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1696 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1699 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1702 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1705 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1708 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1709 --------------------------------
1712 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1713 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1716 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1717 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1720 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1721 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1722 * fix console output encoding
1724 Interface and extensions:
1725 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1726 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1729 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1730 --------------------------------
1733 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1734 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1735 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1736 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1737 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1738 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1739 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1740 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1741 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1742 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1743 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1744 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1745 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1746 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1747 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1748 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1752 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1753 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1754 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1755 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1756 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1759 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1762 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1763 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1764 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1768 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1771 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1772 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1773 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1776 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1777 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1778 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1779 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1782 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1783 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1786 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1787 --------------------------------
1789 Important changes for users:
1790 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1791 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1793 Important changes for packagers:
1794 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1795 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1796 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1797 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1798 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1800 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1802 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1803 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1804 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1805 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1806 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1809 * Support for the sftp protocol
1810 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1811 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1812 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1813 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1814 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1817 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1818 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1819 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1821 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1822 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1823 * Invmem module improvements
1824 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1825 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1826 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1827 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1828 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1829 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1830 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1831 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1832 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1833 * Support for VP8 codec
1834 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1837 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1838 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1839 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1840 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1841 * Various EGP improvements
1842 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1843 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1846 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1847 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1848 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1849 * Podcast images are now displayed
1852 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1853 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1854 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1855 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1856 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1857 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1858 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1859 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1860 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1861 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1862 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1865 * New content extensions lua framework
1868 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1869 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1870 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1871 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1872 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1873 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1874 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1877 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1878 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1879 * Service discovery based on libudev
1880 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1883 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1884 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1885 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1886 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1887 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1888 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1889 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1892 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1893 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1894 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1897 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1899 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1900 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1903 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1906 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1907 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1908 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1909 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1910 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1911 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1912 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1915 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1916 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1919 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1920 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1921 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1925 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1926 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1927 * Improved Solaris port
1930 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1931 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1934 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1935 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1936 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1937 * transrate: broken since too long
1938 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1939 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1940 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1941 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1942 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1943 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1944 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1945 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1946 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1947 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1948 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1949 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1950 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1951 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1954 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1955 --------------------------------
1958 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1960 Decoders/Packetizers:
1961 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1964 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1965 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1966 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1967 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1968 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1971 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1972 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1975 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1976 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1979 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1980 and Walloon translations updated
1981 * Sinhala translation started
1984 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1985 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1988 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1989 --------------------------------
1992 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1993 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1996 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1999 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2000 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2003 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2004 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2005 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2006 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2009 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2010 --------------------------------
2013 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2014 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2017 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2018 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2021 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2022 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2025 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2028 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2029 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2032 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2033 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2036 * New Walloon translation
2037 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2040 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2041 --------------------------------
2044 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2045 regressions in most popular drivers
2046 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2049 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2050 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2051 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2054 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2055 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2058 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2059 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2060 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2061 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2062 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2065 * New udev module for linux
2068 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2071 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2074 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2075 --------------------------------
2078 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2079 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2080 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2083 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2084 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2087 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2088 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2091 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2094 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2095 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2096 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2097 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2100 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2101 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2102 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2103 - no support for Goom and SDL
2104 - limited text rendering support
2105 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2108 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2109 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2110 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2111 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2112 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2113 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2114 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2115 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2116 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2120 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2123 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2126 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2127 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2128 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2129 Arabic and French translation updates
2132 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2133 --------------------------------
2136 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2137 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2138 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2139 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2140 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2141 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2144 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2145 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2146 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2149 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2150 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2151 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2154 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2157 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2158 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2161 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2162 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2163 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2164 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2165 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2166 * Fix various crashes
2169 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2171 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2175 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2176 ---------------------------------
2180 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2181 See 'Access:' for more info.
2182 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2185 * Instantaneous pausing
2186 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2187 * Finer speed control
2188 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2189 * Timeshift for most medias
2190 * RTSP trickplay support
2191 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2194 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2195 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2196 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2197 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2198 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2199 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2200 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2201 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2202 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2203 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2206 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2207 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2208 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2209 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2210 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2211 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2212 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2215 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2216 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2219 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2220 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2221 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2222 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2223 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2224 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2225 * DVB scanning on linux
2226 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2227 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2228 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2229 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2230 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2231 * MTP device access on Unix
2232 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2233 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2236 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2237 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2238 Windows and Mac OS X.
2241 * Export the playlist in HTML
2242 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2243 * Better metadata handling and reading
2245 Linux/Windows interface:
2246 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2247 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2248 * Recently played items list
2249 * Interface toolbar customizations
2250 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2251 - More menus actions
2252 - Finer speed slider
2253 - Improvements on many dialogs
2254 - New dialog for plugins listing
2255 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2256 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2257 * Better integration in GTK environments
2260 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2261 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2262 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2263 * Additional usability improvements
2266 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2267 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2268 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2269 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2270 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2273 * New Maemo port with:
2274 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2275 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2278 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2281 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2282 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2283 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2284 * Support for latest iSight models
2287 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2288 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2291 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2292 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2293 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2294 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2295 The old image video output has been removed.
2296 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2297 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2300 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2308 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2309 --------------------------------------
2315 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2316 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2317 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2318 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2319 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2320 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2321 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2323 Various fixes to the following modules:
2326 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2327 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2328 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2330 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2335 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2336 ---------------------------------
2339 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2340 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2343 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2344 ---------------------------------
2347 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2350 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2353 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2354 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2355 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2356 main controller window.
2357 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2360 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2365 * Updates of other localizations
2368 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2369 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2370 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2371 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2372 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2375 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2376 ---------------------------------
2379 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2381 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2384 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2385 --------------------------------
2390 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2391 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2394 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2395 --------------------------------
2397 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2398 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2401 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2404 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2405 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2408 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2409 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2412 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2413 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2414 * Various fixed in playlist
2417 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2420 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2423 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2424 ------------------------------------
2426 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2427 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2430 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2431 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2432 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2435 * Stability fix for the video output.
2438 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2439 --------------------------------
2442 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2443 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2444 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2445 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2446 * Fixed update system bugs
2447 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2450 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2451 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2452 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2453 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2454 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2455 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2456 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2457 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2458 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2459 modern Mac OS X versions
2462 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2463 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2465 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2466 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2469 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2470 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2471 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2472 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2473 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2474 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2477 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2478 --------------------------------
2480 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2481 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2482 * Multiple bugfixes.
2485 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2486 --------------------------------
2488 * Multiple bug fixes.
2491 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2492 ---------------------------------
2496 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2497 recent to work correctly
2498 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2499 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2500 edit the ".hosts" file.
2501 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2502 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2503 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2504 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2505 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2506 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2507 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2508 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2509 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2510 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2511 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2512 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2513 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2514 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2515 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2516 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2517 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2518 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2519 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2520 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2521 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2522 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2523 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2524 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2525 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2526 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2527 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2528 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2529 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2530 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2531 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2532 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2533 and postproc modules.
2534 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2535 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2536 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2537 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2539 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2540 filter. For example:
2541 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2542 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2544 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2545 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2551 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2553 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2554 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2557 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2558 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2560 * Shoutcast TV listings
2561 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2563 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2564 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2566 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2569 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2570 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2571 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2572 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2573 * JACK audio input support
2574 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2575 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2576 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2577 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2578 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2579 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2580 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2581 (available as a separate download).
2582 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2583 * RTMP input support
2584 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2585 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2586 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2588 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2589 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2592 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2593 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2594 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2595 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2597 * APEv1/2 tags support
2598 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2599 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2601 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2602 * TiVo Series 2 support
2603 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2608 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2609 * Flash Screen Video support
2610 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2611 * DosBox Capture support
2612 * Karl Morton's Video support
2613 * limited atrac3 support
2615 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2616 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2617 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2618 * H.264 PAFF support
2619 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2620 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2621 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2622 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2623 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2626 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2627 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2628 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2629 * AQTitle subtitles support
2630 * MKV USF subtitles support
2631 * HTML-based subtitles support
2632 * MPSub subtitles support
2633 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2634 * MPL2 subtitles support
2635 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2636 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2637 * Realtext subtitle support
2638 * DKS subtitle support
2639 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2640 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2643 * Flash Screen Video support
2644 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2646 Video outputs and filters:
2647 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2648 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2649 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2650 * New puzzle video output filter
2651 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2652 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2654 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2655 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2656 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2657 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2658 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2659 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2660 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2661 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2662 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2663 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2664 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2665 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2666 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2667 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2669 Audio outputs and filters:
2670 * Replay gain support
2671 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2672 new scaletempo audio filter)
2673 * New spatializer audio filter
2674 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2677 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2678 * New RTP payload formats:
2679 * Speex voice audio codec
2680 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2681 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2682 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2683 * DCCP transport for RTP
2684 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2689 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2690 end-user suitable way.
2691 * Improved user interaction
2692 * Improved mouse gestures
2693 * Vastly improved Update checker
2694 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2696 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2697 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2699 * Improved video output features
2700 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2701 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2702 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2703 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2704 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2706 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2707 if libncursesw is available.
2708 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2709 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2710 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2712 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2713 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2714 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2715 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2716 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2717 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2718 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2719 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2722 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2723 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2724 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2727 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2728 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2729 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2730 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2731 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2732 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2735 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2736 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2746 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2747 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2748 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2751 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2752 ----------------------------------
2755 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2758 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2759 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2760 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2761 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2762 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2763 * Updated Polish translation
2766 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2767 ----------------------------------
2770 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2771 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2772 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2775 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2776 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2777 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2778 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2779 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2780 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2781 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2782 to an unexpected application termination
2783 * New Serbian translation
2784 * Updated Romanian translation
2787 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2788 ----------------------------------
2791 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2792 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2793 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2794 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2795 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2796 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2797 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2798 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2801 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2802 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2803 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2804 * Fixed AAC resampling
2805 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2806 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2809 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2810 ----------------------------------
2813 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2814 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2815 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2816 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2817 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2820 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2821 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2822 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2823 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2824 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2827 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2828 ----------------------------------
2831 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2832 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2835 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2836 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2837 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2838 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2840 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2844 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2847 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2850 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2853 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2856 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2857 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2858 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2859 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2860 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2862 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2863 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2864 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2865 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2868 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2871 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2872 ----------------------------------
2875 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2876 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2877 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2879 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2880 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2882 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2883 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2886 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2888 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2889 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2890 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2891 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2892 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2893 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2894 two different movies
2895 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2896 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2897 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2900 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2903 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2904 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2905 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2906 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2909 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2910 ----------------------------------
2912 Various bugfixes, notably:
2913 * Windows Vista compatibility
2914 * Cropping in Direct3D
2915 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2916 * RSS filter string overflow
2918 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2920 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2921 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2924 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2925 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2928 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2931 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2934 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2937 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2938 ----------------------------------
2940 Various bugfixes, notably:
2941 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2942 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2943 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2944 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2945 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2946 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2949 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2950 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2953 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2955 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2956 * Diverse usability improvements
2957 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2958 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2959 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2962 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2963 ---------------------------------
2965 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2966 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2969 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2972 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2973 --------------------------------
2976 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2979 * Support for RTSP authentication
2980 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2981 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2982 * ATSC support for DVB input
2983 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2984 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2985 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2988 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2989 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2990 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2991 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2992 * Matroska WavPack support
2993 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2994 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2995 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2998 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2999 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3000 * Improved libcaca support
3004 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3005 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3007 * Systray support in skins
3009 * Support for Apple Remote control
3010 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3011 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3012 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3013 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3015 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3018 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3019 Windows 9x/ME users:
3020 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3021 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3022 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3023 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3024 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3026 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3027 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3036 * Updates to the libvlc API
3037 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3040 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3041 --------------------------------
3044 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3045 * Support for downloading updates
3049 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3050 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3051 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3052 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3054 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3055 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3056 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3059 * Cook (Real audio) support
3061 Playlist / Services discovery:
3062 * XSPF playlist support
3064 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3067 * New JACK audio output
3070 * New video filters:
3071 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3072 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3073 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3074 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3075 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3076 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3079 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3082 * System to inform the user and request information
3083 - HTTP authentication
3087 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3088 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3089 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3092 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3093 - Improved playlist handling
3094 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3096 - Embedded Video output
3097 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3098 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3099 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3100 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3101 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3103 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3104 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3107 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3110 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3111 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3112 * Growl "Now playing" support
3115 * Ability to log to syslog
3116 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3119 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3121 * A bit more automatic testing
3124 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3125 ---------------------------------
3128 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3129 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3132 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3133 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3136 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3139 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3140 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3146 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3149 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3150 --------------------------------
3153 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3157 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3158 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3159 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3162 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3163 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3164 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3165 * GnomeVFS input module
3166 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3167 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3170 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3171 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3172 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3175 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3176 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3182 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3183 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3186 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3187 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3188 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3191 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3193 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3194 - New extended controls panel
3195 - New bookmarks window
3196 - Fixed playlist sorting
3197 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3199 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3200 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3201 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3202 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3206 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3207 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3209 - Include macro to include other files
3213 * Should now work outside IE as well
3216 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3219 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3220 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3223 The following languages were added:
3227 * Simplified Chinese
3228 The following languages were re-added:
3232 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3233 --------------------------------
3236 * Rewrite of the playlist
3238 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3239 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3240 * Preferences improvements:
3241 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3242 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3244 * Core image manipulation support
3245 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3246 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3247 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3248 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3249 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3250 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3251 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3252 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3253 * Access filter architecture
3254 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3255 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3259 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3260 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3261 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3262 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3263 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3264 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3265 * Massive Matroska improvements
3266 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3268 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3269 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3270 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3271 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3272 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3274 Decoders / Encoders:
3275 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3276 * PNG decoder/encoder
3277 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3278 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3281 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3284 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3285 * Brand new SAP module
3286 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3287 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3288 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3289 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3290 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3291 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3295 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3298 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3299 * Image file video output (png)
3300 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3301 * Improvements to wall video filter
3302 * Support for font color and opacity
3308 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3309 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3310 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3314 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3315 - Improved preferences
3316 - Improvements to the wizard
3317 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3319 - Redesigned playlist
3320 - Improved preferences
3322 - Support for multiple actions
3325 - Support for the new playlist system
3327 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3330 * Screensaver disabling fix
3331 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3332 * Support for no-decoration windows
3335 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3336 * The OpenGL video output is back
3337 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3338 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3339 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3340 is not yet available in the new module
3341 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3344 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3353 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3356 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3359 The following languages were added:
3365 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3366 --------------------------------
3369 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3370 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3373 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3374 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3375 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3378 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3381 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3384 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3387 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3388 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3389 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3393 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3395 * Support of playlist group announcement
3398 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3399 --------------------------------
3402 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3403 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3404 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3405 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3406 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3407 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3410 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3411 (Stream your desktop)
3412 * Improved DVD support:
3413 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3414 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3415 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3416 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3417 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3418 (selection of titles/chapters).
3421 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3422 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3423 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3424 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3425 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3426 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3427 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3428 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3429 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3430 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3433 * G.726 audio support
3434 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3435 * MPEG-4 text support
3436 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3437 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3438 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3442 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3443 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3444 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3445 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3446 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3447 * DVB subtitles encoder
3448 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3449 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3451 * Text track muxing for mp4
3452 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3453 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3454 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3455 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3456 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3457 * Improved ASF muxer
3459 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3460 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3461 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3464 * New audio equalizer filter
3465 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3466 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3467 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3468 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3471 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3472 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3473 with support for effects.
3474 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3475 - New filters can be streamed.
3476 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3477 - Centralized scaling and blending
3479 - "time", to display current time
3480 - "marq", to display a marquee
3483 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3484 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3485 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3486 * A few skins2 improvements
3487 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3488 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3489 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3490 * Improved CORBA control module
3493 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3494 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3495 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3498 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3499 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3500 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3503 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3504 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3505 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3506 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3507 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3510 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3513 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3514 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3517 * Server/client network synchronization module
3518 * VBrick streams fully supported
3519 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3523 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3524 --------------------------------
3527 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3528 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3529 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3530 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3533 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3534 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3535 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3536 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3537 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3538 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3539 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3542 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3543 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3544 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3545 * Improved directory access module.
3546 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3547 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3548 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3549 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3550 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3553 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3554 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3555 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3558 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3559 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3560 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3563 * Improved session announcement system.
3564 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3565 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3566 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3567 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3568 * Improved transrater.
3569 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3570 * New configuration system.
3571 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3574 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3575 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3576 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3577 * Supports scheduling.
3578 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3579 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3582 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3583 - Ability to embed video output.
3584 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3585 - Lots of improvements.
3586 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3587 - New design and set of icons.
3588 - Ability to embed video output.
3589 - Support for hotkeys.
3590 - Support for bookmarks.
3592 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3593 - Better hotkeys handling.
3596 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3597 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3598 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3599 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3602 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3603 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3604 * Improved Windows installer.
3610 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3611 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3614 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3615 ---------------------------------
3618 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3619 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3622 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3623 --------------------------------
3626 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3627 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3630 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3631 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3632 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3633 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3636 * Internal improvments
3637 * Improved import/export
3640 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3642 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3643 small and strange formats.
3645 * New MOD audio demux.
3646 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3647 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3648 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3649 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3652 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3653 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3654 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3660 * New opengl video output plugin.
3663 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3664 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3667 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3668 --------------------------------
3671 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3672 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3673 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3674 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3675 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3676 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3677 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3678 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3681 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3686 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3687 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3688 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3689 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3690 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3691 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3692 * Better Icecast support.
3693 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3694 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3697 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3698 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3699 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3700 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3701 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3702 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3703 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3706 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3707 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3708 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3709 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3710 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3711 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3712 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3713 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3714 * Preliminary RTP support.
3715 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3720 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3721 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3723 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3724 - Improvements and help in preferences
3725 - New streaming wizard
3726 - Revised Disc Open menu
3728 - Improvements of the standard pages
3729 - Support for new commands
3730 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3733 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3734 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3737 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3738 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3739 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3740 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3741 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3742 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3743 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3744 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3745 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3748 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3750 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3751 * Support for Panther.
3752 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3753 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3756 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3757 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3758 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3759 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3760 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3761 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3762 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3763 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3766 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3767 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3768 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3771 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3774 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3775 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3776 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3777 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3780 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3781 --------------------------------
3784 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3787 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3788 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3791 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3792 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3795 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3798 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3799 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3802 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3805 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3808 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3809 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3813 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3814 --------------------------------
3817 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3818 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3822 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3823 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3824 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3826 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3827 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3830 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3833 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3836 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3837 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3841 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3842 --------------------------------
3845 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3846 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3850 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3851 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3852 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3853 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3854 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3857 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3858 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3859 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3862 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3863 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3864 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3867 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3868 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3869 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3870 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3871 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3874 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3875 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3876 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3879 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3882 * Improved build system.
3883 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3884 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3885 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3886 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3889 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3890 --------------------------------
3893 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3896 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3897 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3898 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3899 * Video 4 Linux support
3900 * CD Digital Audio support
3901 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3904 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3905 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3906 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3907 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3910 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3911 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3912 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3913 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3914 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3915 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3916 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3919 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3920 * New HTTP remote control interface
3923 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3924 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3925 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3926 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3927 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3930 * New reset option for the preferences
3931 * You can set your language in the prefences
3932 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3933 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3934 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3935 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3938 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3939 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3940 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3943 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3944 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3945 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3946 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3947 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3948 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3949 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3950 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3951 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3952 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3955 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3956 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3957 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3958 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3959 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3960 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3961 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3964 * Interface localization
3965 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3966 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3967 * New full-featured Preferences window
3970 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3971 --------------------------------
3974 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3975 * support for skins at the interface level
3976 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3977 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3978 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3979 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3980 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3983 * fixed HTTP redirects
3984 * support for opening an entire directory
3985 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3986 * new video4linux access plug-in
3987 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3990 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3991 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3992 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3995 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3996 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3997 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3998 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3999 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4000 * new codec for raw I420 video
4001 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4004 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4005 (although it still misses some important features)
4006 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4009 * new HTTP output support
4010 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4011 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4014 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4017 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4020 * reorderable playlist
4021 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4022 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4023 * support for mono audio output devices
4024 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4025 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4026 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4027 * the messages window remembers more lines
4028 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4029 * http and ogg stream output options
4030 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4033 * new skinnable interface
4034 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4036 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4037 * support for FLAC audio format
4038 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4040 * network tab in the interface
4041 * "apply" handling in preferences
4044 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4045 ---------------------------------
4048 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4049 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4050 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4051 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4053 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4054 * DTS S/PDIF support
4057 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4058 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4059 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4060 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4063 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4064 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4067 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4070 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4073 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4075 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4076 * rc interface is now fully useable
4077 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4080 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4081 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4082 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4083 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4084 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4086 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4087 * support for mouse gestures
4088 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4091 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4092 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4095 * improved ID3 tag detection
4096 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4097 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4098 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4100 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4103 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4104 ---------------------------------
4107 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4108 English was set as the preferred language
4111 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4112 --------------------------------
4115 * new mouse gesture interface
4116 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4120 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4121 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4122 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4125 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4126 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4130 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4133 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4134 without the user consent
4137 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4139 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4140 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4141 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4144 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4145 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4146 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4147 * playlist enhancements
4148 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4149 * new step forward/step backward commands
4150 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4151 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4152 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4155 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4156 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4157 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4160 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4161 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4164 * native video output is working again
4165 * only commandline interface support
4166 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4169 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4170 --------------------------------
4173 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4174 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4175 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4176 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4177 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4178 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4179 and A/52 streams are supported)
4180 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4185 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4186 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4187 * VCD entry points support
4188 * VCD image file support
4191 * support for *.asf format
4192 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4193 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4194 * support for ogg encapsulation
4195 * support for raw DV format
4196 * support for *.wav format
4197 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4200 Stream discovery & playlists:
4201 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4202 * support for .m3u file format
4203 * support for .asx file format
4204 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4207 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4208 (only available with the .avi demux)
4209 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4210 * support for raw PCM data
4211 * support for Cinepak video codec
4212 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4213 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4214 * support for Xvid codec
4215 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4216 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4217 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4219 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4221 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4224 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4227 * new WxWindows interface
4228 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4229 device and the channels configuration
4230 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4231 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4232 format that VLC can play
4233 * new swedish translation
4234 * enhancements of the playlist window
4235 * new messages window to see debug info
4236 * fixed a few crashes
4239 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4240 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4241 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4242 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working