3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
12 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
13 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
14 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
15 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
16 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
17 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
18 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
19 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
20 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
21 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
23 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
24 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
25 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
26 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
27 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
28 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
34 * Vastly improved playlist support:
35 * Media library support
37 * Shoutcast TV listings
38 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
39 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
40 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
43 * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
44 * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
45 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
46 * JACK audio input support
47 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
48 * Input run time option ( improved live stream recording )
49 * Fixed aiff stereo file
50 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
51 * Improved FLAC demuxer ( duration / current time / meta data )
53 * APEv1/2 tags support
54 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
58 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
59 * MKV USF subtitles support
60 * HTML based subtitles support
61 * Flash Screen Video support
62 * CamStudio Screen Video support
63 * DosBox Capture support
64 * Karl Morton's Video support
65 * limited atrac3 support
66 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files (Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...)
69 * Flash Screen Video support
71 Video output and filters:
72 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
73 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
74 * New puzzle video output filter
75 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
76 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
78 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
79 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
80 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
82 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
83 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
84 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
85 was previously part of the mosaic module.
86 * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
87 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
88 * Support for Intel SSE2 intruction set in chroma converters
89 * Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters
92 * Replay gain support.
93 * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet )
96 * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
100 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
102 * Improved user interaction
103 * Improved mouse gestures
105 * Allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
106 * D-Bus Interface (experimental) implements the MPRIS
107 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
108 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
110 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
113 * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
120 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
121 ----------------------------------
123 Various bugfixes, notably:
124 * Windows Vista compatibility
125 * Cropping in Direct3D
126 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
127 * RSS filter string overflow
129 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
131 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
132 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316)
135 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
138 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
141 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
144 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
147 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
148 ----------------------------------
150 Various bugfixes, notably:
151 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
152 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
153 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
154 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
155 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
156 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
159 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
160 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
163 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
165 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
166 * Diverse usability improvements
167 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
168 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
169 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
172 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
173 ---------------------------------
176 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
179 * Fullscreen controller improvements
182 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
183 --------------------------------
186 * Shoutcast TV listings support
189 * Support for RTSP authentication
190 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
191 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
192 * ATSC support for DVB input
193 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
194 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
195 * Improved support for Flash Video files
198 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
199 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
200 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
201 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
202 * Matroska WavPack support
203 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
204 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
205 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
208 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
209 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
210 * Improved libcaca support
214 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
215 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
217 * Systray support in skins
219 * Support for Apple Remote control
220 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
221 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
222 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
223 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
225 * Notifications using notification-daemon
228 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
230 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
231 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
232 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
233 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
234 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
236 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
237 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
246 * Updates to the libvlc API
247 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
250 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
251 --------------------------------
254 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
255 * Support for downloading updates
259 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
260 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
261 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
262 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
264 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
265 * Improved subtitles encoding support
266 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
269 * Cook (Real audio) support
271 Playlist / Services discovery:
272 * XSPF playlist support
274 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
277 * New JACK audio output
281 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
282 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
283 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
284 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
285 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
286 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
289 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
292 * System to inform the user and request information
293 - HTTP authentication
297 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
298 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
299 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
302 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
303 - Improved playlist handling
304 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
306 - Embedded Video output
307 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
308 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
309 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
310 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
311 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
313 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
314 - A bunch of new RPN functions
317 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
320 * Mac-Intel compatibility
321 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
322 * Growl "Now playing" support
325 * Ability to log to syslog
326 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
329 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
331 * A bit more automatic testing
334 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
335 ---------------------------------
338 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
339 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
342 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
343 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
346 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
349 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
350 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
356 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
359 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
360 --------------------------------
363 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
367 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
368 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
369 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
372 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
373 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
374 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
375 * GnomeVFS input module
376 * Support for RTP packet reordering
377 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
380 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
381 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
382 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
385 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
386 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
392 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
393 Mixer and Dolby Surround
396 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
397 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
398 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
401 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
403 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
404 - New extended controls panel
405 - New bookmarks window
406 - Fixed playlist sorting
407 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
409 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
410 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
411 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
412 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
416 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
417 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
419 - Include macro to include other files
423 * Should now work outside IE as well
426 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
429 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
430 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
433 The following languages were added:
438 The following languages were re-added:
442 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
443 --------------------------------
446 * Rewrite of the playlist
448 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
449 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
450 * Preferences improvements:
451 - New organization, designed to improve usability
452 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
454 * Core image manipulation support
455 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
456 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
457 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
458 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
459 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
460 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
461 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
462 now separated by ':' instead of ','
463 * Access filter architecture
464 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
465 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
469 * Support for SOCKS proxy
470 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
471 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
472 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
473 * Better support for Kasenna streams
474 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
475 * Massive Matroska improvements
476 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
478 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
479 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
480 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
481 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
482 * Support for FTP over IPv6
485 * Dirac decoder and encoder
486 * PNG decoder/encoder
487 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
488 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
491 * New Record and Timeshift filters
494 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
495 * Brand new SAP module
496 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
497 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
498 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
499 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
500 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
501 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
505 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
508 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
509 * Image file video output (png)
510 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
511 * Improvements to wall video filter
512 * Support for font color and opacity
518 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
519 - Seeking support in VoD streams
520 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
524 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
525 - Improved preferences
526 - Improvements to the wizard
527 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
529 - Redesigned playlist
530 - Improved preferences
532 - Support for multiple actions
535 - Support for the new playlist system
537 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
540 * Screensaver disabling fix
541 * DirectShow tuner configuration
542 * Support for no-decoration windows
545 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
546 * The OpenGL video output is back
547 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
548 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
549 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
550 is not yet available in the new module
551 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
554 * Support for single-buffered overlay
563 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
566 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
569 The following languages were added:
575 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
576 --------------------------------
579 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
580 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
583 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
584 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
585 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
588 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
591 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
594 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
597 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
598 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
599 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
603 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
605 * Support of playlist group announcement
608 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
609 --------------------------------
612 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
613 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
614 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
615 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
616 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
617 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
620 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
621 (Stream your desktop)
622 * Improved DVD support:
623 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
624 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
625 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
626 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
627 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
628 (selection of titles/chapters).
631 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
632 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
633 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
634 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
635 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
636 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
637 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
638 * Improved Ogg demuxer
639 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
640 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
643 * G.726 audio support
644 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
645 * MPEG-4 text support
646 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
647 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
648 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
652 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
653 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
654 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
655 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
656 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
657 * DVB subtitles encoder
658 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
659 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
661 * Text track muxing for mp4
662 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
663 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
664 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
665 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
666 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
669 * H.263 RTP streaming support
670 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
671 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
674 * New audio equalizer filter
675 * Very trivial volume normalizer
676 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
677 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
678 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
681 * Roku HD1000 Video output
682 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
683 with support for effects.
684 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
685 - New filters can be streamed.
686 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
687 - Centralized scaling and blending
689 - "time", to display current time
690 - "marq", to display a marquee
693 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
694 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
695 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
696 * A few skins2 improvements
697 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
698 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
699 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
700 * Improved CORBA control module
703 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
704 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
705 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
708 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
709 * Experimental SVG rendering module
710 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
713 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
714 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
715 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
716 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
717 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
720 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
723 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
724 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
727 * Server/client network synchronization module
728 * VBrick streams fully supported
729 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
733 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
734 --------------------------------
737 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
738 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
739 * Improved HTTP daemon.
740 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
743 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
744 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
745 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
746 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
747 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
748 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
749 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
752 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
753 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
754 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
755 * Improved directory access module.
756 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
757 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
758 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
759 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
760 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
763 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
764 * mmsh streaming fixes.
765 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
768 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
769 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
770 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
773 * Improved session announcement system.
774 * Minimize threads usage by default.
775 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
776 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
777 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
778 * Improved transrater.
779 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
780 * New configuration system.
781 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
784 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
785 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
786 * Supports live streams and VoD.
787 * Supports scheduling.
788 * Telnet interface for vlm.
789 * HTTP interface for vlm.
792 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
793 - Ability to embed video output.
794 - Support for bitmap fonts.
795 - Lots of improvements.
796 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
797 - New design and set of icons.
798 - Ability to embed video output.
799 - Support for hotkeys.
800 - Support for bookmarks.
802 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
803 - Better hotkeys handling.
806 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
807 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
808 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
809 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
812 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
813 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
814 * Improved Windows installer.
820 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
821 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
824 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
825 ---------------------------------
828 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
829 * Playing MOD files is working now.
832 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
833 --------------------------------
836 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
837 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
840 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
841 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
842 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
843 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
846 * Internal improvments
847 * Improved import/export
850 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
852 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
853 small and strange formats.
855 * New MOD audio demux.
856 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
857 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
858 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
859 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
862 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
863 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
864 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
870 * New opengl video output plugin.
873 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
874 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
877 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
878 --------------------------------
881 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
882 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
883 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
884 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
885 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
886 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
887 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
888 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
891 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
896 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
897 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
898 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
899 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
900 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
901 * Reworked DVB tuning.
902 * Better Icecast support.
903 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
904 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
907 * Support for Theora video encoding.
908 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
909 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
910 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
911 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
912 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
913 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
916 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
917 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
918 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
919 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
920 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
921 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
922 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
923 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
924 * Preliminary RTP support.
925 * Fixes to SAP announces.
930 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
931 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
933 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
934 - Improvements and help in preferences
935 - New streaming wizard
936 - Revised Disc Open menu
938 - Improvements of the standard pages
939 - Support for new commands
940 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
943 * Many fixes to the SAP module
944 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
947 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
948 * Text subtitles autodetection.
949 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
950 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
951 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
952 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
953 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
954 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
955 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
958 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
960 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
961 * Support for Panther.
962 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
963 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
966 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
967 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
968 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
969 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
970 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
971 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
972 * Multimonitor support (untested).
973 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
976 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
977 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
978 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
981 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
984 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
985 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
986 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
987 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
990 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
991 --------------------------------
994 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
997 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
998 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1001 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1002 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1005 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1008 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1009 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1012 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1015 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1018 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1019 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1023 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1024 --------------------------------
1027 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1028 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1032 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1033 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1034 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1036 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1037 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1040 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1043 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1046 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1047 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1051 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1052 --------------------------------
1055 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1056 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1060 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1061 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1062 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1063 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1064 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1067 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1068 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1069 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1072 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1073 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1074 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1077 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1078 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1079 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1080 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1081 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1084 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1085 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1086 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1089 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1092 * Improved build system.
1093 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1094 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1095 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1096 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1099 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1100 --------------------------------
1103 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1106 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1107 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1108 * Video 4 Linux support
1109 * CD Digital Audio support
1110 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1113 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1114 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1115 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1116 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1119 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1120 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1121 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1122 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1123 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1124 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1125 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1128 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1129 * New HTTP remote control interface
1132 * 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.
1133 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1134 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1135 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1138 * New reset option for the preferences
1139 * You can set your language in the prefences
1140 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1141 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1142 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1143 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1146 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1147 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1148 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1151 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1152 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1153 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1154 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1155 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1156 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1157 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1158 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1159 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1160 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1163 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1164 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1165 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1166 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1167 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1168 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1169 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1172 * Interface localization
1173 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1174 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1175 * New full-featured Preferences window
1178 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1179 --------------------------------
1182 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1183 * support for skins at the interface level
1184 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1185 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1186 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1187 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1188 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1191 * fixed HTTP redirects
1192 * support for opening an entire directory
1193 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1194 * new video4linux access plug-in
1195 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1198 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1199 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1200 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1203 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1204 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1205 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1206 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1207 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1208 * new codec for raw I420 video
1209 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1212 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1213 (although it still misses some important features)
1214 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1217 * new HTTP output support
1218 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1219 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1222 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1225 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1228 * reorderable playlist
1229 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1230 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1231 * support for mono audio output devices
1232 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1233 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1234 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1235 * the messages window remembers more lines
1236 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1237 * http and ogg stream output options
1238 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1241 * new skinnable interface
1242 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1244 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1245 * support for FLAC audio format
1246 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1248 * network tab in the interface
1249 * "apply" handling in preferences
1252 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1253 ---------------------------------
1256 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1257 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1258 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1259 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1261 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1262 * DTS S/PDIF support
1265 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1266 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1267 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1268 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1271 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1272 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1275 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1278 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1281 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1283 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1284 * rc interface is now fully useable
1285 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1288 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1289 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1290 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1291 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1292 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1294 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1295 * support for mouse gestures
1296 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1299 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1300 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1303 * improved ID3 tag detection
1304 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1305 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1306 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1308 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1311 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1312 ---------------------------------
1315 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1316 English was set as the preferred language
1319 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1320 --------------------------------
1323 * new mouse gesture interface
1324 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1328 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1329 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1330 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1333 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1334 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1338 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1341 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1342 without the user consent
1345 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1347 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1348 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1349 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1352 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1353 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1354 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1355 * playlist enhancements
1356 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1357 * new step forward/step backward commands
1358 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1359 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1360 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1363 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1364 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1365 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1368 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1369 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1372 * native video output is working again
1373 * only commandline interface support
1374 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1377 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1378 --------------------------------
1381 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1382 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1383 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1384 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1385 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1386 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1387 and A/52 streams are supported)
1388 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1393 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1394 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1395 * VCD entry points support
1396 * VCD image file support
1399 * support for *.asf format
1400 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1401 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1402 * support for ogg encapsulation
1403 * support for raw DV format
1404 * support for *.wav format
1405 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1408 Stream discovery & playlists:
1409 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1410 * support for .m3u file format
1411 * support for .asx file format
1412 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1415 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1416 (only available with the .avi demux)
1417 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1418 * support for raw PCM data
1419 * support for Cinepak video codec
1420 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1421 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1422 * support for Xvid codec
1423 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1424 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1425 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1427 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1429 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1432 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1435 * new WxWindows interface
1436 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1437 device and the channels configuration
1438 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1439 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1440 format that VLC can play
1441 * new swedish translation
1442 * enhancements of the playlist window
1443 * new messages window to see debug info
1444 * fixed a few crashes
1447 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1448 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1449 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1450 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working