3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet)
4 -------------------------------------------------------
7 * Vastly improved playlist support:
8 * Media library support
10 * Shoutcast TV listings
11 * Audioscrobbler / last.fm support
14 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support
18 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splited into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
19 and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
23 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
25 * Improved user interaction
28 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6
29 --------------------------------
32 * Shoutcast TV listings support
35 * Support for RTSP authentication
36 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
37 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
38 * ATSC support for DVB
39 * Partial support for DVR-ms recordings
40 * Partial support for MXF fileformat
43 * Native WMV3 / VC-1 support
44 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
45 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support
46 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
48 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc)
51 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
52 * Improved libcaca support
56 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
57 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
59 * Systray support in skins
61 * Support for Apple Remote control
62 * Fullscreen controller panel
63 * new playmode buttons
64 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
65 * Main Menu keeps accessible when playing videos in fullscreen mode
67 * Notifications using notification-daemon
76 * Updates to the libvlc API
77 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
80 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
81 ---------------------------------
84 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
85 * Support for downloading updates
89 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
90 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
91 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
92 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
94 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
95 * Improved subtitles encoding support
96 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
99 * Cook (Real audio) support
101 Playlist / Services discovery:
102 * XSPF playlist support
104 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
107 * New JACK audio output
111 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
112 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
113 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
114 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
115 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
116 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
119 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
122 * System to inform the user and request information
123 - HTTP authentication
127 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
128 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
129 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
132 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
133 - Improved playlist handling
134 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
136 - Embedded Video output
137 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
138 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
139 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
140 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
141 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
143 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
144 - A bunch of new RPN functions
147 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
150 * Mac-Intel compatibility
151 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
152 * Growl "Now playing" support
155 * Ability to log to syslog
156 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
159 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
161 * A bit more automatic testing
163 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
164 ---------------------------------
167 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
168 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
171 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
172 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
175 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
178 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
179 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
185 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
187 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
188 --------------------------------
191 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
195 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
196 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
197 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
200 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
201 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
202 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
203 * GnomeVFS input module
204 * Support for RTP packet reordering
205 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
208 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
209 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
210 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
213 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
214 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
220 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
221 Mixer and Dolby Surround
224 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
225 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
226 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
229 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
231 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
232 - New extended controls panel
233 - New bookmarks window
234 - Fixed playlist sorting
235 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
237 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
238 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
239 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
240 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
244 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
245 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
247 - Include macro to include other files
251 * Should now work outside IE as well
254 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
257 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
258 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
261 The following languages were added:
266 The following languages were re-added:
269 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
270 --------------------------------
273 * Rewrite of the playlist
275 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
276 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
277 * Preferences improvements:
278 - New organization, designed to improve usability
279 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
281 * Core image manipulation support
282 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
283 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
284 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
285 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
286 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
287 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
288 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
289 now separated by ':' instead of ','
290 * Access filter architecture
291 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
292 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
296 * Support for SOCKS proxy
297 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
298 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
299 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
300 * Better support for Kasenna streams
301 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
302 * Massive Matroska improvements
303 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
305 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
306 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
307 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
308 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
309 * Support for FTP over IPv6
312 * Dirac decoder and encoder
313 * PNG decoder/encoder
314 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
315 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
318 * New Record and Timeshift filters
321 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
322 * Brand new SAP module
323 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
324 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
325 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
326 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
327 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
328 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
332 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
335 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
336 * Image file video output (png)
337 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
338 * Improvements to wall video filter
339 * Support for font color and opacity
345 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
346 - Seeking support in VoD streams
347 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
351 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
352 - Improved preferences
353 - Improvements to the wizard
354 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
356 - Redesigned playlist
357 - Improved preferences
359 - Support for multiple actions
362 - Support for the new playlist system
364 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
367 * Screensaver disabling fix
368 * DirectShow tuner configuration
369 * Support for no-decoration windows
372 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
373 * The OpenGL video output is back
374 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
375 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
376 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
377 is not yet available in the new module
378 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
381 * Support for single-buffered overlay
390 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
393 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
396 The following languages were added:
402 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
403 -----------------------------------------------------
406 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
407 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
410 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
411 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
412 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
415 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
418 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
421 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
424 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
425 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
426 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
430 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
432 * Support of playlist group announcement
434 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
435 -----------------------------------------------------
438 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
439 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
440 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
441 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
442 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
443 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
446 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
447 (Stream your desktop)
448 * Improved DVD support:
449 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
450 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
451 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
452 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
453 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
454 (selection of titles/chapters).
457 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
458 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
459 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
460 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
461 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
462 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
463 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
464 * Improved Ogg demuxer
465 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
466 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
469 * G.726 audio support
470 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
471 * MPEG-4 text support
472 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
473 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
474 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
478 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
479 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
480 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
481 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
482 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
483 * DVB subtitles encoder
484 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
485 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
487 * Text track muxing for mp4
488 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
489 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
490 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
491 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
492 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
495 * H.263 RTP streaming support
496 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
497 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
500 * New audio equalizer filter
501 * Very trivial volume normalizer
502 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
503 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
504 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
507 * Roku HD1000 Video output
508 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
509 with support for effects.
510 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
511 - New filters can be streamed.
512 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
513 - Centralized scaling and blending
515 - "time", to display current time
516 - "marq", to display a marquee
519 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
520 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
521 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
522 * A few skins2 improvements
523 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
524 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
525 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
526 * Improved CORBA control module
529 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
530 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
531 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
534 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
535 * Experimental SVG rendering module
536 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
539 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
540 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
541 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
542 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
543 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
546 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
549 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
550 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
553 * Server/client network synchronization module
554 * VBrick streams fully supported
555 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
558 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
559 --------------------------------
562 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
563 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
564 * Improved HTTP daemon.
565 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
568 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
569 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
570 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
571 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
572 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
573 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
574 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
577 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
578 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
579 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
580 * Improved directory access module.
581 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
582 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
583 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
584 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
585 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
588 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
589 * mmsh streaming fixes.
590 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
593 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
594 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
595 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
598 * Improved session announcement system.
599 * Minimize threads usage by default.
600 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
601 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
602 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
603 * Improved transrater.
604 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
605 * New configuration system.
606 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
609 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
610 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
611 * Supports live streams and VoD.
612 * Supports scheduling.
613 * Telnet interface for vlm.
614 * HTTP interface for vlm.
617 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
618 - Ability to embed video output.
619 - Support for bitmap fonts.
620 - Lots of improvements.
621 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
622 - New design and set of icons.
623 - Ability to embed video output.
624 - Support for hotkeys.
625 - Support for bookmarks.
627 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
628 - Better hotkeys handling.
631 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
632 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
633 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
634 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
637 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
638 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
639 * Improved Windows installer.
645 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
646 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
648 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
649 ---------------------------------
652 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
653 * Playing MOD files is working now.
656 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
657 ---------------------------------
660 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
661 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
664 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
665 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
666 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
667 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
670 * Internal improvments
671 * Improved import/export
674 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
676 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
677 small and strange formats.
679 * New MOD audio demux.
680 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
681 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
682 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
683 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
686 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
687 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
688 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
694 * New opengl video output plugin.
697 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
698 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
700 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
701 ---------------------------------
704 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
705 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
706 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
707 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
708 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
709 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
710 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
711 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
714 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
719 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
720 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
721 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
722 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
723 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
724 * Reworked DVB tuning.
725 * Better Icecast support.
726 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
727 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
730 * Support for Theora video encoding.
731 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
732 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
733 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
734 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
735 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
736 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
739 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
740 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
741 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
742 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
743 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
744 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
745 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
746 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
747 * Preliminary RTP support.
748 * Fixes to SAP announces.
753 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
754 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
756 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
757 - Improvements and help in preferences
758 - New streaming wizard
759 - Revised Disc Open menu
761 - Improvements of the standard pages
762 - Support for new commands
763 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
766 * Many fixes to the SAP module
767 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
770 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
771 * Text subtitles autodetection.
772 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
773 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
774 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
775 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
776 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
777 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
778 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
781 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
783 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
784 * Support for Panther.
785 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
786 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
789 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
790 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
791 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
792 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
793 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
794 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
795 * Multimonitor support (untested).
796 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
799 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
800 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
801 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
804 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
807 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
808 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
809 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
810 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
812 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
813 ---------------------------------
816 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
819 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
820 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
823 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
824 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
827 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
830 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
831 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
834 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
837 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
840 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
841 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
844 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
845 ---------------------------------
848 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
849 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
853 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
854 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
855 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
857 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
858 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
861 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
864 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
867 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
868 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
871 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
872 ---------------------------------
875 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
876 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
880 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
881 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
882 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
883 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
884 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
887 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
888 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
889 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
892 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
893 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
894 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
897 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
898 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
899 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
900 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
901 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
904 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
905 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
906 * A new CORBA control plugin.
909 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
912 * Improved build system.
913 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
914 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
915 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
916 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
919 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
920 ---------------------------------
923 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
926 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
927 * Fixed large file support on Windows
928 * Video 4 Linux support
929 * CD Digital Audio support
930 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
933 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
934 * Support for OpenDML avi files
935 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
936 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
939 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
940 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
941 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
942 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
943 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
944 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
945 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
948 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
949 * New HTTP remote control interface
952 * 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.
953 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
954 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
955 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
958 * New reset option for the preferences
959 * You can set your language in the prefences
960 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
961 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
962 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
963 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
966 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
967 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
968 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
971 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
972 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
973 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
974 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
975 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
976 * New icons by Davor Orel.
977 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
978 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
979 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
980 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
983 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
984 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
985 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
986 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
987 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
988 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
989 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
992 * Interface localization
993 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
994 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
995 * New full-featured Preferences window
997 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
998 ---------------------------------
1001 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1002 * support for skins at the interface level
1003 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1004 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1005 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1006 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1007 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1010 * fixed HTTP redirects
1011 * support for opening an entire directory
1012 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1013 * new video4linux access plug-in
1014 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1017 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1018 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1019 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1022 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1023 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1024 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1025 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1026 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1027 * new codec for raw I420 video
1028 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1031 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1032 (although it still misses some important features)
1033 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1036 * new HTTP output support
1037 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1038 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1041 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1044 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1047 * reorderable playlist
1048 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1049 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1050 * support for mono audio output devices
1051 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1052 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1053 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1054 * the messages window remembers more lines
1055 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1056 * http and ogg stream output options
1057 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1060 * new skinnable interface
1061 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1063 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1064 * support for FLAC audio format
1065 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1067 * network tab in the interface
1068 * "apply" handling in preferences
1071 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1072 ---------------------------------
1075 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1076 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1077 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1078 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1080 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1081 * DTS S/PDIF support
1084 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1085 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1086 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1087 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1090 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1091 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1094 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1097 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1100 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1102 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1103 * rc interface is now fully useable
1104 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1107 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1108 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1109 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1110 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1111 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1113 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1114 * support for mouse gestures
1115 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1118 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1119 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1122 * improved ID3 tag detection
1123 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1124 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1125 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1127 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1130 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1131 ---------------------------------
1134 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1135 English was set as the preferred language
1138 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1139 --------------------------------
1142 * new mouse gesture interface
1143 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1147 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1148 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1149 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1152 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1153 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1157 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1160 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1161 without the user consent
1164 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1166 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1167 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1168 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1171 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1172 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1173 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1174 * playlist enhancements
1175 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1176 * new step forward/step backward commands
1177 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1178 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1179 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1182 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1183 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1184 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1187 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1188 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1191 * native video output is working again
1192 * only commandline interface support
1193 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1196 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1197 --------------------------------
1200 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1201 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1202 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1203 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1204 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1205 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1206 and A/52 streams are supported)
1207 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1212 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1213 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1214 * VCD entry points support
1215 * VCD image file support
1218 * support for *.asf format
1219 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1220 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1221 * support for ogg encapsulation
1222 * support for raw DV format
1223 * support for *.wav format
1224 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1227 Stream discovery & playlists:
1228 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1229 * support for .m3u file format
1230 * support for .asx file format
1231 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1234 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1235 (only available with the .avi demux)
1236 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1237 * support for raw PCM data
1238 * support for Cinepak video codec
1239 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1240 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1241 * support for Xvid codec
1242 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1243 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1244 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1246 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1248 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1251 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1254 * new WxWindows interface
1255 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1256 device and the channels configuration
1257 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1258 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1259 format that VLC can play
1260 * new swedish translation
1261 * enhancements of the playlist window
1262 * new messages window to see debug info
1263 * fixed a few crashes
1266 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1267 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1268 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1269 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working