1 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2 ---------------------------------
6 * This release will not work with Windows 98/ME and Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther)
7 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
8 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
9 edit the ".hosts" file.
10 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
11 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
12 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
13 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
14 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
15 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
16 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
17 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
18 This interface has a fullscreen controller. This interface lacks the
19 "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
20 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
21 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
22 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
23 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
24 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
25 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
26 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
27 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
28 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
29 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
30 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
31 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
32 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
33 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
34 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
35 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
36 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
37 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
38 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
40 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
41 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
42 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
43 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
45 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
47 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
48 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
50 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
51 * Glide video output module has been removed.
52 * Due to lack of maintainer, the Skins interface might not work properly.
58 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-??)
59 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
60 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-??)
63 * Vastly improved playlist support:
64 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
66 * Shoutcast TV listings
67 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
69 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
70 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
71 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
72 share/lua/meta/README.txt
75 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
76 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
77 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
78 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
79 * JACK audio input support
80 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
81 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
82 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
83 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
84 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
85 * Experimental EyeTV access module
86 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
87 (available as a separate download).
88 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
90 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
91 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
92 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
94 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
95 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
98 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
99 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
100 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
101 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
103 * APEv1/2 tags support
104 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
105 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
107 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
108 * TiVo Series 2 support
109 * CD+G karaoke Files support
114 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
115 * Flash Screen Video support
116 * CamStudio Screen Video support
117 * DosBox Capture support
118 * Karl Morton's Video support
119 * limited atrac3 support
121 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
122 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
123 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
125 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
126 * NellyMoser ASAO support
127 * APE (Monkey audio) support
128 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
129 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
132 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
133 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
134 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
135 * AQTitle subtitles support
136 * MKV USF subtitles support
137 * HTML-based subtitles support
138 * MPSub subtitles support
139 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
140 * MPL2 subtitles support
141 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
142 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
143 * Realtext subtitle support
144 * DKS subtitle support
145 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
146 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
149 * Flash Screen Video support
150 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
152 Video outputs and filters:
153 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
154 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
155 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
156 * New puzzle video output filter
157 * Re-written motion detection video filter
158 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
160 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
161 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
162 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
163 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
164 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
165 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
166 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
167 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
168 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
169 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
170 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
171 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
172 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
174 Audio outputs and filters:
175 * Replay gain support
176 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
177 new scaletempo audio filter)
178 * New spatializer audio filter
179 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
182 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
183 * New RTP payload formats:
184 * Speex voice audio codec
185 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
186 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
187 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
188 * DCCP transport for RTP
189 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
194 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
195 end-user suitable way.
196 * Improved user interaction
197 * Improved mouse gestures
198 * Vastly improved Update checker
199 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
201 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
202 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
204 * Improved video output features
205 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
206 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
207 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
208 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
209 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
211 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
212 if libncursesw is available.
213 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
214 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
216 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
217 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
218 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
219 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
220 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
221 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
222 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
223 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
226 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
227 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
228 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
231 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
232 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
233 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
234 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
235 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
236 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
239 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
240 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
249 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
250 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
251 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
254 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
255 ----------------------------------
258 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
261 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
262 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
263 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
264 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
265 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
266 * Updated Polish translation
269 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
270 ----------------------------------
273 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
274 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
275 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
278 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
279 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
280 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
281 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
282 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
283 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
284 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
285 to an unexpected application termination
286 * New Serbian translation
287 * Updated Romanian translation
290 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
291 ----------------------------------
294 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
295 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
296 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
297 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
298 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
299 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
300 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
301 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
304 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
305 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
306 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
307 * Fixed AAC resampling
308 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
309 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
312 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
313 ----------------------------------
316 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
317 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
318 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
319 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
320 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
323 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
324 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
325 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
326 * Close MMS access on network timeout
327 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
330 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
331 ----------------------------------
334 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
335 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
338 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
339 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
340 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
341 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
343 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
347 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
350 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
353 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
356 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
359 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
360 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
361 encoding on multi-cpu systems
362 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
363 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
365 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
366 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
367 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
368 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
371 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
374 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
375 ----------------------------------
378 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
379 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
380 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
382 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
383 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
385 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
386 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
389 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
391 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
392 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
393 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
394 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
395 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
396 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
398 * Support for current Ogg file formats
399 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
400 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
403 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
406 * The automatic updating facility was removed
407 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
408 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
409 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
412 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
413 ----------------------------------
415 Various bugfixes, notably:
416 * Windows Vista compatibility
417 * Cropping in Direct3D
418 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
419 * RSS filter string overflow
421 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
423 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
424 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
427 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
428 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
431 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
434 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
437 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
440 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
441 ----------------------------------
443 Various bugfixes, notably:
444 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
445 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
446 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
447 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
448 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
449 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
452 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
453 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
456 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
458 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
459 * Diverse usability improvements
460 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
461 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
462 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
465 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
466 ---------------------------------
469 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
472 * Fullscreen controller improvements
475 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
476 --------------------------------
479 * Shoutcast TV listings support
482 * Support for RTSP authentication
483 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
484 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
485 * ATSC support for DVB input
486 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
487 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
488 * Improved support for Flash Video files
491 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
492 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
493 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
494 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
495 * Matroska WavPack support
496 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
497 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
498 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
501 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
502 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
503 * Improved libcaca support
507 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
508 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
510 * Systray support in skins
512 * Support for Apple Remote control
513 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
514 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
515 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
516 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
518 * Notifications using notification-daemon
521 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
523 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
524 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
525 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
526 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
527 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
529 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
530 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
539 * Updates to the libvlc API
540 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
543 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
544 --------------------------------
547 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
548 * Support for downloading updates
552 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
553 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
554 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
555 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
557 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
558 * Improved subtitles encoding support
559 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
562 * Cook (Real audio) support
564 Playlist / Services discovery:
565 * XSPF playlist support
567 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
570 * New JACK audio output
574 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
575 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
576 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
577 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
578 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
579 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
582 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
585 * System to inform the user and request information
586 - HTTP authentication
590 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
591 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
592 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
595 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
596 - Improved playlist handling
597 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
599 - Embedded Video output
600 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
601 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
602 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
603 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
604 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
606 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
607 - A bunch of new RPN functions
610 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
613 * Mac-Intel compatibility
614 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
615 * Growl "Now playing" support
618 * Ability to log to syslog
619 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
622 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
624 * A bit more automatic testing
627 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
628 ---------------------------------
631 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
632 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
635 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
636 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
639 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
642 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
643 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
649 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
652 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
653 --------------------------------
656 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
660 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
661 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
662 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
665 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
666 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
667 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
668 * GnomeVFS input module
669 * Support for RTP packet reordering
670 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
673 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
674 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
675 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
678 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
679 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
685 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
686 Mixer and Dolby Surround
689 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
690 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
691 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
694 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
696 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
697 - New extended controls panel
698 - New bookmarks window
699 - Fixed playlist sorting
700 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
702 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
703 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
704 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
705 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
709 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
710 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
712 - Include macro to include other files
716 * Should now work outside IE as well
719 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
722 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
723 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
726 The following languages were added:
731 The following languages were re-added:
735 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
736 --------------------------------
739 * Rewrite of the playlist
741 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
742 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
743 * Preferences improvements:
744 - New organization, designed to improve usability
745 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
747 * Core image manipulation support
748 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
749 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
750 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
751 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
752 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
753 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
754 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
755 now separated by ':' instead of ','
756 * Access filter architecture
757 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
758 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
762 * Support for SOCKS proxy
763 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
764 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
765 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
766 * Better support for Kasenna streams
767 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
768 * Massive Matroska improvements
769 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
771 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
772 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
773 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
774 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
775 * Support for FTP over IPv6
778 * Dirac decoder and encoder
779 * PNG decoder/encoder
780 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
781 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
784 * New Record and Timeshift filters
787 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
788 * Brand new SAP module
789 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
790 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
791 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
792 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
793 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
794 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
798 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
801 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
802 * Image file video output (png)
803 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
804 * Improvements to wall video filter
805 * Support for font color and opacity
811 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
812 - Seeking support in VoD streams
813 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
817 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
818 - Improved preferences
819 - Improvements to the wizard
820 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
822 - Redesigned playlist
823 - Improved preferences
825 - Support for multiple actions
828 - Support for the new playlist system
830 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
833 * Screensaver disabling fix
834 * DirectShow tuner configuration
835 * Support for no-decoration windows
838 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
839 * The OpenGL video output is back
840 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
841 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
842 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
843 is not yet available in the new module
844 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
847 * Support for single-buffered overlay
856 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
859 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
862 The following languages were added:
868 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
869 --------------------------------
872 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
873 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
876 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
877 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
878 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
881 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
884 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
887 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
890 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
891 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
892 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
896 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
898 * Support of playlist group announcement
901 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
902 --------------------------------
905 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
906 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
907 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
908 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
909 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
910 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
913 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
914 (Stream your desktop)
915 * Improved DVD support:
916 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
917 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
918 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
919 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
920 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
921 (selection of titles/chapters).
924 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
925 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
926 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
927 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
928 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
929 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
930 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
931 * Improved Ogg demuxer
932 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
933 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
936 * G.726 audio support
937 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
938 * MPEG-4 text support
939 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
940 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
941 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
945 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
946 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
947 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
948 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
949 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
950 * DVB subtitles encoder
951 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
952 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
954 * Text track muxing for mp4
955 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
956 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
957 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
958 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
959 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
962 * H.263 RTP streaming support
963 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
964 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
967 * New audio equalizer filter
968 * Very trivial volume normalizer
969 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
970 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
971 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
974 * Roku HD1000 Video output
975 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
976 with support for effects.
977 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
978 - New filters can be streamed.
979 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
980 - Centralized scaling and blending
982 - "time", to display current time
983 - "marq", to display a marquee
986 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
987 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
988 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
989 * A few skins2 improvements
990 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
991 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
992 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
993 * Improved CORBA control module
996 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
997 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
998 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1001 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1002 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1003 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1006 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1007 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1008 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1009 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1010 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1013 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1016 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1017 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1020 * Server/client network synchronization module
1021 * VBrick streams fully supported
1022 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1026 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1027 --------------------------------
1030 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1031 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1032 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1033 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1036 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1037 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1038 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1039 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1040 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1041 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1042 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1045 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1046 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1047 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1048 * Improved directory access module.
1049 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1050 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1051 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1052 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1053 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1056 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1057 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1058 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1061 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1062 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1063 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1066 * Improved session announcement system.
1067 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1068 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1069 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1070 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1071 * Improved transrater.
1072 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1073 * New configuration system.
1074 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1077 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1078 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1079 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1080 * Supports scheduling.
1081 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1082 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1085 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1086 - Ability to embed video output.
1087 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1088 - Lots of improvements.
1089 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1090 - New design and set of icons.
1091 - Ability to embed video output.
1092 - Support for hotkeys.
1093 - Support for bookmarks.
1095 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1096 - Better hotkeys handling.
1099 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1100 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1101 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1102 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1105 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1106 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1107 * Improved Windows installer.
1113 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1114 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1117 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1118 ---------------------------------
1121 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1122 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1125 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1126 --------------------------------
1129 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1130 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1133 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1134 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1135 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1136 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1139 * Internal improvments
1140 * Improved import/export
1143 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1145 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1146 small and strange formats.
1148 * New MOD audio demux.
1149 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1150 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1151 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1152 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1155 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1156 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1157 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1163 * New opengl video output plugin.
1166 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1167 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1170 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1171 --------------------------------
1174 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1175 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1176 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1177 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1178 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1179 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1180 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1181 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1184 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1189 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1190 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1191 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1192 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1193 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1194 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1195 * Better Icecast support.
1196 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1197 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1200 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1201 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1202 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1203 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1204 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1205 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1206 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1209 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1210 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1211 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1212 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1213 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1214 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1215 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1216 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1217 * Preliminary RTP support.
1218 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1223 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1224 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1226 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1227 - Improvements and help in preferences
1228 - New streaming wizard
1229 - Revised Disc Open menu
1231 - Improvements of the standard pages
1232 - Support for new commands
1233 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1236 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1237 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1240 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1241 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1242 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1243 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1244 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1245 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1246 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1247 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1248 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1251 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1253 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1254 * Support for Panther.
1255 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1256 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1259 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1260 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1261 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1262 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1263 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1264 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1265 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1266 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1269 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1270 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1271 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1274 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1277 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1278 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1279 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1280 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1283 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1284 --------------------------------
1287 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1290 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1291 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1294 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1295 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1298 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1301 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1302 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1305 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1308 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1311 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1312 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1316 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1317 --------------------------------
1320 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1321 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1325 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1326 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1327 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1329 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1330 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1333 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1336 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1339 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1340 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1344 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1345 --------------------------------
1348 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1349 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1353 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1354 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1355 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1356 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1357 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1360 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1361 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1362 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1365 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1366 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1367 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1370 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1371 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1372 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1373 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1374 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1377 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1378 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1379 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1382 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1385 * Improved build system.
1386 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1387 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1388 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1389 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1392 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1393 --------------------------------
1396 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1399 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1400 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1401 * Video 4 Linux support
1402 * CD Digital Audio support
1403 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1406 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1407 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1408 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1409 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1412 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1413 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1414 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1415 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1416 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1417 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1418 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1421 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1422 * New HTTP remote control interface
1425 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1426 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1427 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1428 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1431 * New reset option for the preferences
1432 * You can set your language in the prefences
1433 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1434 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1435 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1436 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1439 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1440 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1441 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1444 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1445 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1446 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1447 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1448 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1449 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1450 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1451 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1452 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1453 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1456 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1457 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1458 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1459 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1460 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1461 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1462 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1465 * Interface localization
1466 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1467 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1468 * New full-featured Preferences window
1471 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1472 --------------------------------
1475 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1476 * support for skins at the interface level
1477 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1478 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1479 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1480 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1481 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1484 * fixed HTTP redirects
1485 * support for opening an entire directory
1486 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1487 * new video4linux access plug-in
1488 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1491 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1492 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1493 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1496 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1497 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1498 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1499 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1500 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1501 * new codec for raw I420 video
1502 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1505 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1506 (although it still misses some important features)
1507 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1510 * new HTTP output support
1511 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1512 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1515 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1518 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1521 * reorderable playlist
1522 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1523 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1524 * support for mono audio output devices
1525 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1526 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1527 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1528 * the messages window remembers more lines
1529 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1530 * http and ogg stream output options
1531 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1534 * new skinnable interface
1535 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1537 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1538 * support for FLAC audio format
1539 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1541 * network tab in the interface
1542 * "apply" handling in preferences
1545 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1546 ---------------------------------
1549 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1550 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1551 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1552 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1554 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1555 * DTS S/PDIF support
1558 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1559 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1560 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1561 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1564 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1565 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1568 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1571 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1574 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1576 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1577 * rc interface is now fully useable
1578 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1581 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1582 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1583 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1584 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1585 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1587 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1588 * support for mouse gestures
1589 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1592 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1593 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1596 * improved ID3 tag detection
1597 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1598 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1599 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1601 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1604 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1605 ---------------------------------
1608 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1609 English was set as the preferred language
1612 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1613 --------------------------------
1616 * new mouse gesture interface
1617 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1621 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1622 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1623 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1626 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1627 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1631 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1634 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1635 without the user consent
1638 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1640 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1641 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1642 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1645 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1646 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1647 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1648 * playlist enhancements
1649 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1650 * new step forward/step backward commands
1651 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1652 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1653 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1656 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1657 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1658 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1661 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1662 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1665 * native video output is working again
1666 * only commandline interface support
1667 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1670 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1671 --------------------------------
1674 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1675 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1676 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1677 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1678 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1679 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1680 and A/52 streams are supported)
1681 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1686 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1687 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1688 * VCD entry points support
1689 * VCD image file support
1692 * support for *.asf format
1693 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1694 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1695 * support for ogg encapsulation
1696 * support for raw DV format
1697 * support for *.wav format
1698 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1701 Stream discovery & playlists:
1702 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1703 * support for .m3u file format
1704 * support for .asx file format
1705 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1708 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1709 (only available with the .avi demux)
1710 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1711 * support for raw PCM data
1712 * support for Cinepak video codec
1713 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1714 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1715 * support for Xvid codec
1716 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1717 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1718 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1720 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1722 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1725 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1728 * new WxWindows interface
1729 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1730 device and the channels configuration
1731 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1732 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1733 format that VLC can play
1734 * new swedish translation
1735 * enhancements of the playlist window
1736 * new messages window to see debug info
1737 * fixed a few crashes
1740 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1741 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1742 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1743 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working