1 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
8 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
9 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
10 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
11 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) files
14 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
17 * WPL playlist support
18 * ZPL playlist support
19 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
22 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
25 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
26 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
29 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
30 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
31 * New x11 and xv modules based on XCB
34 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
37 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
47 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
48 --------------------------------
51 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
52 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
53 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
54 * Fix Dailymotion access script
55 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
56 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
59 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
60 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
63 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
64 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
65 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
68 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
71 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
72 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
75 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
76 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
77 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
78 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
79 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
83 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
85 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
88 Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
89 ---------------------------------
93 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
94 See 'Access:' for more info.
95 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
98 * Instantaneous pausing
99 * Frame-by-Frame playback
100 * Finer speed control
101 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
102 * Timeshift for most medias
103 * RTSP trickplay support
104 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
107 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
108 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
109 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
110 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
111 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
112 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
113 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
114 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
115 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
116 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
119 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
120 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
121 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
122 * Metadata for mod files are supported
123 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
124 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
125 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
128 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
129 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
132 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
133 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
134 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
135 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
136 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
137 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
138 * DVB scanning on linux
139 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
140 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
141 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
142 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
143 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
144 * MTP device access on Unix
145 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
146 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
149 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
150 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
151 Windows and Mac OS X.
154 * Export the playlist in HTML
155 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
156 * Better metadata handling and reading
158 Linux/Windows interface:
159 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
160 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
161 * Recently played items list
162 * Interface toolbar customizations
163 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
166 - Improvements on many dialogs
167 - New dialog for plugins listing
168 - Fixed-size mode for videos
169 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
170 * Better integration in GTK environments
173 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
174 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
175 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
176 * Additional usability improvements
179 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
180 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
181 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
182 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
183 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
186 * New Maemo port with:
187 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
188 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
191 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
194 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
195 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
196 * Support for latest iSight models
199 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
200 * Surround support for PulseAudio
203 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
204 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
205 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
206 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
207 The old image video output has been removed.
208 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
209 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
212 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
215 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
216 ---------------------------------
219 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
220 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
223 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
224 ---------------------------------
227 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
230 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
233 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
234 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
235 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
236 main controller window.
237 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
240 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
245 * Updates of other localizations
248 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
249 * Lots of small bugfixes.
250 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
251 * Telnet fixes on Windows
252 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
254 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
255 ---------------------------------
258 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
260 Bunch of small bugfixes.
263 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
264 --------------------------------
269 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
270 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
273 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
274 --------------------------------
276 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
277 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
280 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
283 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
284 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
287 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
288 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
291 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
292 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
293 * Various fixed in playlist
296 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
299 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
302 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
303 ------------------------------------
305 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
306 * Fixes several memory leaks.
309 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
310 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
311 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
314 * Stability fix for the video output.
317 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
318 --------------------------------
321 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
322 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
323 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
324 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
325 * Fixed update system bugs
326 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
329 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
330 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
331 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
332 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
333 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
334 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
335 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
336 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
337 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
338 modern Mac OS X versions
341 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
342 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
344 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
345 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
348 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
349 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
350 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
351 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
352 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
353 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
356 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
357 --------------------------------
359 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
360 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
364 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
365 --------------------------------
367 * Multiple bug fixes.
370 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
371 ---------------------------------
375 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
376 recent to work correctly
377 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
378 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
379 edit the ".hosts" file.
380 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
381 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
382 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
383 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
384 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
385 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
386 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
387 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
388 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
389 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
390 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
391 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
392 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
393 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
394 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
395 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
396 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
397 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
398 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
399 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
400 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
401 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
402 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
403 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
404 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
405 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
406 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
407 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
408 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
409 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
410 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
411 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
412 and postproc modules.
413 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
414 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
415 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
416 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
418 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
420 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
421 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
423 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
424 * Glide video output module has been removed.
430 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
432 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
433 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
436 * Vastly improved playlist support:
437 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
439 * Shoutcast TV listings
440 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
442 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
443 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
445 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
448 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
449 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
450 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
451 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
452 * JACK audio input support
453 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
454 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
455 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
456 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
457 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
458 * Experimental EyeTV access module
459 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
460 (available as a separate download).
461 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
463 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
464 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
465 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
467 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
468 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
471 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
472 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
473 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
474 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
476 * APEv1/2 tags support
477 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
478 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
480 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
481 * TiVo Series 2 support
482 * CD+G karaoke Files support
487 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
488 * Flash Screen Video support
489 * CamStudio Screen Video support
490 * DosBox Capture support
491 * Karl Morton's Video support
492 * limited atrac3 support
494 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
495 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
496 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
498 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
499 * NellyMoser ASAO support
500 * APE (Monkey audio) support
501 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
502 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
505 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
506 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
507 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
508 * AQTitle subtitles support
509 * MKV USF subtitles support
510 * HTML-based subtitles support
511 * MPSub subtitles support
512 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
513 * MPL2 subtitles support
514 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
515 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
516 * Realtext subtitle support
517 * DKS subtitle support
518 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
519 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
522 * Flash Screen Video support
523 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
525 Video outputs and filters:
526 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
527 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
528 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
529 * New puzzle video output filter
530 * Re-written motion detection video filter
531 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
533 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
534 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
535 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
536 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
537 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
538 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
539 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
540 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
541 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
542 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
543 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
544 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
545 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
546 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
548 Audio outputs and filters:
549 * Replay gain support
550 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
551 new scaletempo audio filter)
552 * New spatializer audio filter
553 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
556 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
557 * New RTP payload formats:
558 * Speex voice audio codec
559 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
560 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
561 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
562 * DCCP transport for RTP
563 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
568 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
569 end-user suitable way.
570 * Improved user interaction
571 * Improved mouse gestures
572 * Vastly improved Update checker
573 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
575 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
576 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
578 * Improved video output features
579 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
580 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
581 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
582 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
583 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
585 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
586 if libncursesw is available.
587 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
588 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
589 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
591 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
592 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
593 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
594 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
595 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
596 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
597 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
598 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
601 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
602 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
603 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
606 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
607 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
608 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
609 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
610 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
611 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
614 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
615 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
625 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
626 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
627 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
630 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
631 ----------------------------------
634 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
637 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
638 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
639 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
640 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
641 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
642 * Updated Polish translation
645 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
646 ----------------------------------
649 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
650 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
651 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
654 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
655 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
656 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
657 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
658 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
659 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
660 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
661 to an unexpected application termination
662 * New Serbian translation
663 * Updated Romanian translation
666 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
667 ----------------------------------
670 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
671 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
672 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
673 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
674 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
675 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
676 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
677 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
680 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
681 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
682 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
683 * Fixed AAC resampling
684 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
685 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
688 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
689 ----------------------------------
692 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
693 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
694 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
695 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
696 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
699 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
700 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
701 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
702 * Close MMS access on network timeout
703 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
706 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
707 ----------------------------------
710 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
711 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
714 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
715 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
716 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
717 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
719 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
723 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
726 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
729 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
732 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
735 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
736 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
737 encoding on multi-cpu systems
738 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
739 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
741 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
742 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
743 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
744 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
747 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
750 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
751 ----------------------------------
754 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
755 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
756 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
758 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
759 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
761 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
762 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
765 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
767 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
768 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
769 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
770 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
771 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
772 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
774 * Support for current Ogg file formats
775 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
776 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
779 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
782 * The automatic updating facility was removed
783 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
784 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
785 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
788 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
789 ----------------------------------
791 Various bugfixes, notably:
792 * Windows Vista compatibility
793 * Cropping in Direct3D
794 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
795 * RSS filter string overflow
797 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
799 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
800 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
803 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
804 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
807 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
810 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
813 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
816 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
817 ----------------------------------
819 Various bugfixes, notably:
820 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
821 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
822 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
823 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
824 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
825 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
828 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
829 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
832 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
834 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
835 * Diverse usability improvements
836 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
837 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
838 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
841 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
842 ---------------------------------
845 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
848 * Fullscreen controller improvements
851 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
852 --------------------------------
855 * Shoutcast TV listings support
858 * Support for RTSP authentication
859 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
860 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
861 * ATSC support for DVB input
862 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
863 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
864 * Improved support for Flash Video files
867 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
868 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
869 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
870 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
871 * Matroska WavPack support
872 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
873 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
874 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
877 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
878 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
879 * Improved libcaca support
883 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
884 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
886 * Systray support in skins
888 * Support for Apple Remote control
889 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
890 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
891 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
892 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
894 * Notifications using notification-daemon
897 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
899 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
900 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
901 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
902 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
903 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
905 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
906 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
915 * Updates to the libvlc API
916 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
919 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
920 --------------------------------
923 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
924 * Support for downloading updates
928 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
929 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
930 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
931 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
933 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
934 * Improved subtitles encoding support
935 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
938 * Cook (Real audio) support
940 Playlist / Services discovery:
941 * XSPF playlist support
943 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
946 * New JACK audio output
950 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
951 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
952 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
953 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
954 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
955 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
958 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
961 * System to inform the user and request information
962 - HTTP authentication
966 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
967 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
968 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
971 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
972 - Improved playlist handling
973 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
975 - Embedded Video output
976 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
977 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
978 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
979 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
980 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
982 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
983 - A bunch of new RPN functions
986 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
989 * Mac-Intel compatibility
990 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
991 * Growl "Now playing" support
994 * Ability to log to syslog
995 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
998 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1000 * A bit more automatic testing
1003 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1004 ---------------------------------
1007 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1008 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1011 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1012 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1015 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1018 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1019 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1025 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1028 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1029 --------------------------------
1032 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1036 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1037 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1038 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1041 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1042 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1043 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1044 * GnomeVFS input module
1045 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1046 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1049 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1050 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1051 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1054 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1055 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1061 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1062 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1065 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1066 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1067 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1070 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1072 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1073 - New extended controls panel
1074 - New bookmarks window
1075 - Fixed playlist sorting
1076 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1078 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1079 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1080 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1081 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1085 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1086 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1088 - Include macro to include other files
1092 * Should now work outside IE as well
1095 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1098 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1099 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1102 The following languages were added:
1106 * Simplified Chinese
1107 The following languages were re-added:
1111 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1112 --------------------------------
1115 * Rewrite of the playlist
1117 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1118 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1119 * Preferences improvements:
1120 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1121 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1123 * Core image manipulation support
1124 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1125 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1126 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1127 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1128 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1129 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1130 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1131 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1132 * Access filter architecture
1133 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1134 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1138 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1139 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1140 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1141 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1142 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1143 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1144 * Massive Matroska improvements
1145 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1147 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1148 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1149 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1150 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1151 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1153 Decoders / Encoders:
1154 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1155 * PNG decoder/encoder
1156 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1157 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1160 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1163 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1164 * Brand new SAP module
1165 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1166 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1167 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1168 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1169 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1170 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1174 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1177 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1178 * Image file video output (png)
1179 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1180 * Improvements to wall video filter
1181 * Support for font color and opacity
1187 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1188 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1189 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1193 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1194 - Improved preferences
1195 - Improvements to the wizard
1196 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1198 - Redesigned playlist
1199 - Improved preferences
1201 - Support for multiple actions
1204 - Support for the new playlist system
1206 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1209 * Screensaver disabling fix
1210 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1211 * Support for no-decoration windows
1214 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1215 * The OpenGL video output is back
1216 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1217 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1218 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1219 is not yet available in the new module
1220 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1223 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1232 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1235 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1238 The following languages were added:
1244 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1245 --------------------------------
1248 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1249 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1252 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1253 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1254 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1257 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1260 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1263 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1266 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1267 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1268 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1272 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1274 * Support of playlist group announcement
1277 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1278 --------------------------------
1281 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1282 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1283 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1284 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1285 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1286 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1289 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1290 (Stream your desktop)
1291 * Improved DVD support:
1292 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1293 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1294 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1295 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1296 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1297 (selection of titles/chapters).
1300 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1301 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1302 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1303 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1304 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1305 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1306 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1307 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1308 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1309 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1312 * G.726 audio support
1313 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1314 * MPEG-4 text support
1315 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1316 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1317 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1321 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1322 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1323 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1324 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1325 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1326 * DVB subtitles encoder
1327 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1328 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1330 * Text track muxing for mp4
1331 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1332 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1333 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1334 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1335 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1336 * Improved ASF muxer
1338 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1339 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1340 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1343 * New audio equalizer filter
1344 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1345 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1346 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1347 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1350 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1351 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1352 with support for effects.
1353 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1354 - New filters can be streamed.
1355 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1356 - Centralized scaling and blending
1358 - "time", to display current time
1359 - "marq", to display a marquee
1362 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1363 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1364 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1365 * A few skins2 improvements
1366 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1367 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1368 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1369 * Improved CORBA control module
1372 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1373 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1374 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1377 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1378 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1379 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1382 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1383 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1384 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1385 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1386 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1389 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1392 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1393 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1396 * Server/client network synchronization module
1397 * VBrick streams fully supported
1398 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1402 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1403 --------------------------------
1406 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1407 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1408 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1409 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1412 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1413 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1414 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1415 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1416 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1417 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1418 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1421 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1422 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1423 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1424 * Improved directory access module.
1425 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1426 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1427 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1428 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1429 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1432 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1433 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1434 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1437 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1438 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1439 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1442 * Improved session announcement system.
1443 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1444 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1445 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1446 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1447 * Improved transrater.
1448 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1449 * New configuration system.
1450 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1453 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1454 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1455 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1456 * Supports scheduling.
1457 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1458 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1461 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1462 - Ability to embed video output.
1463 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1464 - Lots of improvements.
1465 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1466 - New design and set of icons.
1467 - Ability to embed video output.
1468 - Support for hotkeys.
1469 - Support for bookmarks.
1471 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1472 - Better hotkeys handling.
1475 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1476 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1477 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1478 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1481 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1482 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1483 * Improved Windows installer.
1489 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1490 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1493 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1494 ---------------------------------
1497 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1498 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1501 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1502 --------------------------------
1505 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1506 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1509 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1510 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1511 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1512 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1515 * Internal improvments
1516 * Improved import/export
1519 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1521 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1522 small and strange formats.
1524 * New MOD audio demux.
1525 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1526 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1527 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1528 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1531 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1532 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1533 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1539 * New opengl video output plugin.
1542 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1543 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1546 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1547 --------------------------------
1550 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1551 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1552 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1553 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1554 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1555 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1556 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1557 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1560 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1565 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1566 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1567 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1568 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1569 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1570 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1571 * Better Icecast support.
1572 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1573 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1576 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1577 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1578 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1579 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1580 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1581 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1582 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1585 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1586 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1587 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1588 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1589 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1590 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1591 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1592 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1593 * Preliminary RTP support.
1594 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1599 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1600 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1602 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1603 - Improvements and help in preferences
1604 - New streaming wizard
1605 - Revised Disc Open menu
1607 - Improvements of the standard pages
1608 - Support for new commands
1609 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1612 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1613 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1616 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1617 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1618 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1619 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1620 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1621 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1622 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1623 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1624 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1627 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1629 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1630 * Support for Panther.
1631 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1632 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1635 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1636 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1637 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1638 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1639 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1640 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1641 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1642 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1645 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1646 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1647 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1650 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1653 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1654 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1655 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1656 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1659 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1660 --------------------------------
1663 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1666 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1667 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1670 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1671 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1674 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1677 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1678 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1681 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1684 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1687 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1688 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1692 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1693 --------------------------------
1696 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1697 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1701 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1702 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1703 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1705 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1706 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1709 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1712 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1715 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1716 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1720 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1721 --------------------------------
1724 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1725 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1729 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1730 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1731 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1732 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1733 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1736 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1737 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1738 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1741 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1742 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1743 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1746 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1747 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1748 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1749 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1750 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1753 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1754 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1755 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1758 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1761 * Improved build system.
1762 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1763 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1764 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1765 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1768 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1769 --------------------------------
1772 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1775 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1776 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1777 * Video 4 Linux support
1778 * CD Digital Audio support
1779 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1782 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1783 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1784 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1785 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1788 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1789 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1790 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1791 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1792 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1793 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1794 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1797 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1798 * New HTTP remote control interface
1801 * 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.
1802 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1803 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1804 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1807 * New reset option for the preferences
1808 * You can set your language in the prefences
1809 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1810 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1811 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1812 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1815 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1816 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1817 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1820 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1821 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1822 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1823 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1824 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1825 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1826 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1827 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1828 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1829 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1832 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1833 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1834 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1835 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1836 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1837 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1838 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1841 * Interface localization
1842 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1843 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1844 * New full-featured Preferences window
1847 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1848 --------------------------------
1851 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1852 * support for skins at the interface level
1853 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1854 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1855 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1856 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1857 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1860 * fixed HTTP redirects
1861 * support for opening an entire directory
1862 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1863 * new video4linux access plug-in
1864 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1867 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1868 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1869 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1872 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1873 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1874 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1875 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1876 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1877 * new codec for raw I420 video
1878 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1881 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1882 (although it still misses some important features)
1883 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1886 * new HTTP output support
1887 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1888 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1891 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1894 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1897 * reorderable playlist
1898 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1899 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1900 * support for mono audio output devices
1901 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1902 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1903 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1904 * the messages window remembers more lines
1905 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1906 * http and ogg stream output options
1907 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1910 * new skinnable interface
1911 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1913 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1914 * support for FLAC audio format
1915 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1917 * network tab in the interface
1918 * "apply" handling in preferences
1921 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1922 ---------------------------------
1925 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1926 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1927 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1928 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1930 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1931 * DTS S/PDIF support
1934 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1935 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1936 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1937 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1940 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1941 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1944 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1947 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1950 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1952 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1953 * rc interface is now fully useable
1954 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1957 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1958 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1959 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1960 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1961 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1963 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1964 * support for mouse gestures
1965 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1968 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1969 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1972 * improved ID3 tag detection
1973 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1974 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1975 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1977 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1980 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1981 ---------------------------------
1984 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1985 English was set as the preferred language
1988 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1989 --------------------------------
1992 * new mouse gesture interface
1993 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1997 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1998 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1999 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2002 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2003 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2007 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2010 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2011 without the user consent
2014 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2016 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2017 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2018 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2021 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2022 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2023 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2024 * playlist enhancements
2025 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2026 * new step forward/step backward commands
2027 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2028 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2029 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2032 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2033 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2034 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2037 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2038 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2041 * native video output is working again
2042 * only commandline interface support
2043 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2046 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2047 --------------------------------
2050 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2051 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2052 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2053 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2054 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2055 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2056 and A/52 streams are supported)
2057 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2062 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2063 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2064 * VCD entry points support
2065 * VCD image file support
2068 * support for *.asf format
2069 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2070 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2071 * support for ogg encapsulation
2072 * support for raw DV format
2073 * support for *.wav format
2074 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2077 Stream discovery & playlists:
2078 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2079 * support for .m3u file format
2080 * support for .asx file format
2081 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2084 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2085 (only available with the .avi demux)
2086 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2087 * support for raw PCM data
2088 * support for Cinepak video codec
2089 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2090 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2091 * support for Xvid codec
2092 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2093 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2094 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2096 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2098 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2101 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2104 * new WxWindows interface
2105 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2106 device and the channels configuration
2107 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2108 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2109 format that VLC can play
2110 * new swedish translation
2111 * enhancements of the playlist window
2112 * new messages window to see debug info
2113 * fixed a few crashes
2116 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2117 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2118 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2119 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working