1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
8 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
9 * New SMB access module using libdsm
10 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
11 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
12 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
13 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
16 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
17 * Support 4:4:4 chroma sampling with VDPAU hw acceleration
18 * Support for ARIB B24 subtitles
19 * Support for Daala video
20 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
21 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
22 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
23 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
26 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
27 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
28 * Support Daala in Ogg
29 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
30 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
31 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
34 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
37 * Wayland shell surface window provider
38 * Wayland shared memory video output
39 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output
42 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
43 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
46 * Chromecast output module
49 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
52 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
53 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
57 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
60 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
61 * Port to Yosemite X.10
64 * Support key accelerators
67 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
68 --------------------------------
71 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
72 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
75 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
76 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
77 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
78 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
81 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
82 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
83 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
84 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
86 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
87 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
90 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
91 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
92 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
93 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
94 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
95 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
96 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
97 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
98 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
99 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
100 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
101 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
102 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
103 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
104 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
105 * New jpeg image decoder
106 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
107 * New SVG image decoder
108 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
109 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
110 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
113 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
114 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
115 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
116 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
117 * New png image encoder using libpng
120 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
121 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
122 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
123 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
124 synchronization and tracks exclusion
125 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
126 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
127 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
128 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
129 * Support Opus in MKV
131 * Basic support for WebVTT
132 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
133 * Support HDPR TS files
134 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
135 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
136 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
137 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
138 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
139 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
140 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
141 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
142 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
143 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
144 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
145 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
148 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
149 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
150 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
151 * New Android native window provider module
152 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
153 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
154 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
157 * New Oldmovie effect filter
158 * New VHS effect filter
159 * New Freeze effect filter
160 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
161 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
162 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
165 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
166 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
167 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
168 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
169 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
170 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
173 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
174 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
176 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
179 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
180 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
181 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
182 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
183 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
184 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
185 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
186 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
187 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
189 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
190 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
191 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
194 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
195 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
198 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
199 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
202 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
203 * Add record button in Qt menus
204 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
205 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
206 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
209 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
210 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
211 * Fixes for advanced preferences
212 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
213 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
214 * Option to increase playlist font size
215 * Improved crash log reporting
218 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
219 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
220 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
223 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
226 * iOS video output: use ios2
227 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
228 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
231 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
232 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
233 * Update of all translations:
234 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
235 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
236 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
237 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
238 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
239 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
240 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
243 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
244 --------------------------------
247 * Fix compilation on OS/2
250 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
252 Mac OS X audio output:
253 * Fix channel ordering
254 * Increase the buffersize
257 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
258 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
259 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
262 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
265 * Correctly support video-on-top
266 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
267 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
270 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
273 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
274 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
277 * Update British English
280 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
281 --------------------------------
284 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
287 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
290 * Fix DVD playback regression
291 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
292 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
295 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
296 --------------------------------
299 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
300 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
303 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
304 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
305 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
308 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
309 by updating codec libraries
310 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
311 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
312 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
315 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
316 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
317 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
318 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
321 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
322 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
325 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
326 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
327 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
328 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
329 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
332 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
333 * Fix record file names
336 * Fix minimal size possible on start
337 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
338 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
339 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
340 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
343 * Fix album art display on Windows
346 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
347 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
348 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
349 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
350 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
351 and Simplified Chinese translations
352 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
355 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
356 --------------------------------
359 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
360 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
361 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
362 audio devices on OS X
363 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
364 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
367 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
368 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
371 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
372 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
375 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
378 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
379 * Improve A-B loop control
380 * Fix album art update when changing media
383 * Add a language option in the interface
384 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
385 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
386 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
387 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
388 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
389 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
390 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
393 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
396 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
397 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
398 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
399 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
402 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
403 --------------------------------
406 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
408 * Fix some subtitles track selection
411 * VP9 support in WebM
412 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
413 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
416 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
417 * Support Speex in ogg files
418 * Fix some .mov playlists support
419 * Support Alac in mkv
420 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
421 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
424 * Fix DVB options parsing
425 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
426 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
429 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
430 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
433 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
434 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
437 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
438 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
439 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
440 * Fix play after drag'n drop
441 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
444 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
445 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
448 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
449 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
452 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
453 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
454 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
455 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
456 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
457 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
458 * Improves interface resizings
461 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
462 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
463 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
464 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
465 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
469 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
470 --------------------------------
473 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
474 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
475 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
476 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
477 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
479 3rd party libraries (contrib):
480 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
483 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
484 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
485 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
486 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
487 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
490 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
491 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
495 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
496 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
497 * Support for Ulead DV audio
498 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
499 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
500 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
501 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
502 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
503 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
504 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
505 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
506 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
507 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
510 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
511 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
512 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
515 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
516 remove support for previous OS X releases
517 * Major improvements in DASH support
518 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
519 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
520 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
521 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
522 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
523 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
524 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
525 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
526 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
527 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
528 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
531 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
532 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
533 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
534 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
535 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
536 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
537 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
538 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
539 * Support for more MJPEG streams
540 * Add support for liveleak streams
541 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
542 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
543 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
546 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
547 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
548 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
549 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
550 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
551 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
552 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
553 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
554 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
555 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
556 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
559 * New remapping channel filter
560 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
561 * New VSXu visualization plugin
562 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
563 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
564 * New gain audio filter
567 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
568 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
569 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
570 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
571 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
572 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
573 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
574 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
575 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
578 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
579 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
580 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
581 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
582 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
583 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
584 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
587 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
588 * Options support for AVIO output module
589 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
590 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
591 * Livehttp stream encryption support
592 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
593 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
596 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
599 * configurable password for the HTTP server
600 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
601 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
602 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
603 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
604 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
605 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
606 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
610 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
613 * Add support for multiple video outputs
614 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
616 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
617 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
618 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
619 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
620 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
621 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
622 VLC's internal volume level
623 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
625 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
626 selection and to manage the list of presets
627 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
628 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
629 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
630 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
631 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
632 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
633 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
634 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
635 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
636 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
638 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
639 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
640 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
641 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
642 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
643 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
644 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
645 3rd party applications
646 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
647 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
648 (system-wide settings)
649 * Add support for the Video Title option
650 * Add support for the Boss Key
651 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
652 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
655 * Partial support for Qt5.0
656 * Menus modifications and improvements
657 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
658 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
659 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
660 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
661 * EPG display fixes and improvements
662 * Add SD pixmap sources
663 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
664 * Display playlist total duration
665 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
666 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
667 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
672 * Extend sliders, offsets options
673 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
674 * Numerous fixes and improvements
675 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
678 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
679 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
680 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
681 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
682 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
683 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
684 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
685 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
686 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
687 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
690 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
691 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
692 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
693 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
694 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
695 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
697 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
698 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
699 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
700 * Broken crop video filter
702 * OSD parser and menu
703 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
704 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
705 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
706 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
710 * Update of all translations
713 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
714 --------------------------------
717 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
718 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
721 * Fix modplug security issues
724 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
725 --------------------------------
729 * Fix crash in QTsound
730 * Fix screen mouse file location
731 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
734 * Fix use after free in sgimb
735 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
738 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
741 * Fix interface crashes
742 * Fix autostart playback option
743 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
746 * update Welsh translation
747 * New Kannada translation
750 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
751 --------------------------------
754 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
755 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
759 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
762 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
765 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
768 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
772 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
775 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
778 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
779 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
780 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
783 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
784 --------------------------------
787 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
790 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
793 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
794 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
795 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
796 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
797 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
798 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
801 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
802 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
803 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
804 * 3rd party codecs updates
807 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
808 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
809 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
810 in the advanced preferences panel
811 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
812 * Fix crash within the video output code
813 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
814 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
815 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
816 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
818 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
821 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
824 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
825 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
828 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
831 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
832 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
833 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
834 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
835 Dutch, Danish, translations
836 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
839 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
840 --------------------------------
843 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
846 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
847 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
848 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
851 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
852 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
853 * Fix koreus lua parser
854 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
855 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
856 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
857 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
860 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
861 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
864 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
867 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
868 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
869 * Fix Time counter UI look
870 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
873 * Fix https streaming
876 * Fix audio and video track selection:
877 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
878 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
881 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
882 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
883 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
884 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
885 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
888 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
889 --------------------------------
892 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
893 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
894 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
895 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
896 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
897 during playback on Mac OS X
900 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
901 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
902 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
905 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
906 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
907 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
908 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
909 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
912 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
913 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
914 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
915 * Support Youtube live streams
918 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
921 * Fix media info dialog update
922 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
923 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
924 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
925 * Fix album art display at start
928 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
929 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
930 * Fix menus display and behavior
931 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
932 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
933 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
934 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
935 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
936 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
937 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
940 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
941 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
942 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
943 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
944 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
945 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
946 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
947 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
948 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
951 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
952 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
953 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
954 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
955 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
958 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
959 --------------------------------
962 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
965 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
966 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
969 * Add GateKeeper support
970 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
971 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
972 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
975 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
978 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
979 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
980 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
981 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
982 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
985 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
986 --------------------------------
989 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
990 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
991 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
992 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
993 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
994 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
995 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
996 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
997 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
998 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
999 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1003 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1004 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1005 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1006 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1007 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1008 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1009 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1010 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1011 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1012 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1013 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1014 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1017 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1018 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1020 * Fix MP3 free format support
1023 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1024 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1025 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1026 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1027 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1030 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1031 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1033 Audio filters and output:
1034 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1035 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1036 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1037 * Do not apply volume in file output
1038 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1039 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1042 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1043 the persistant media library
1044 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1045 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1046 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1047 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1048 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1049 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1050 press on the Play/Pause button
1051 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1052 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1053 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1054 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1055 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1056 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1057 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1058 Synchronization panel
1059 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1060 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1061 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1062 * Fix crashes on exit
1063 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1065 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1066 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1067 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1068 automatically reset on the first launch.
1069 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1070 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1071 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1074 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1075 * Fixes for icecast SD
1078 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1079 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1080 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1081 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1082 * Fix tags and file names display
1083 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1086 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1087 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1090 * Fix display of some buttons
1091 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1092 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1095 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1096 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1097 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1100 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1101 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1102 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1103 Thai translations update
1104 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1107 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1108 --------------------------------
1111 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1112 * fix the samba module compilation
1113 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1114 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1115 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1116 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1119 * Support for MXPEG files
1120 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1121 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1124 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1125 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1126 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1129 * Fix ogm header creation
1132 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1133 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1136 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1137 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1138 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1139 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1142 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1145 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1146 * allow to hide the sidebar
1147 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1148 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1149 * noticebly faster launch time
1150 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1151 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1152 * improve track synchronization panel
1153 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1154 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1157 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1158 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1159 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1160 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1163 * fix for menus display
1164 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1165 * documentation update
1168 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1169 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1172 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1173 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1174 * Update Jamendo selections
1178 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1179 * fix a crash on VLM close
1182 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1183 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1184 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1185 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1188 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1191 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1192 ---------------------------------
1195 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1196 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1197 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1198 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1199 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1200 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1201 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1202 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1203 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1204 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1205 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1206 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1207 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1208 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1209 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1210 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1211 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1212 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1213 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1214 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1215 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1216 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1217 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1218 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1219 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1220 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1222 Important changes for packagers:
1223 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1224 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1225 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1226 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1227 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1228 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1229 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1230 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1231 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1232 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1235 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1236 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1237 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1238 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1239 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1240 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1241 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1244 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1245 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1246 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1247 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1248 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1249 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1250 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1251 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1252 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1253 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1254 * PulseAudio audio input support
1255 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1256 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1257 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1258 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1259 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1260 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1261 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1262 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1265 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1266 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1267 are notably concerned.
1268 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1269 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1270 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1271 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1272 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1273 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1274 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1275 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1276 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1277 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1278 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1279 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1280 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1281 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1282 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1285 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1286 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1287 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1288 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1289 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1290 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1291 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1292 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1293 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1294 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1295 * Improved support of tracker files
1296 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1299 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1300 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1301 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1302 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1303 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1304 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1305 and important cleanups and optimisations
1306 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1307 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1308 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1309 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1310 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1311 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1312 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1313 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1314 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1315 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1316 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1317 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1318 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1319 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1320 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1321 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1322 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1323 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1324 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1325 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1326 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1329 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1330 * New video output for iOS platform
1331 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1332 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1333 * Various vmem improvements
1334 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1335 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1336 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1337 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1338 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1339 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1341 Audio Output and Filters:
1342 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1343 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1344 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1345 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1346 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1347 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1348 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1349 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1350 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1351 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1354 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1355 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1356 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1357 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1358 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1359 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1360 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1361 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1362 * New anti-flickering filter
1363 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1364 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1365 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1366 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1367 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1368 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1369 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1372 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1373 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1374 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1375 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1376 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1377 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1378 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1379 * Major rework of VoD support
1380 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1381 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1382 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1383 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1384 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1385 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1386 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1387 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1388 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1389 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1392 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1393 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1396 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1397 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1398 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1399 list of available audio and video filters
1400 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1401 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1402 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1405 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1406 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1407 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1408 * id3tag: use taglib
1409 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1410 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1411 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1412 * removal of the noise filter
1413 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1414 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1415 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1416 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1419 * Update of translations for most languages.
1420 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1423 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1424 ----------------------------------
1427 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1428 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1431 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1432 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1435 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1436 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1437 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1440 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1443 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1444 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1447 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1450 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1451 ----------------------------------
1454 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1455 including support for OS X Lion
1456 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1457 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1460 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1463 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1464 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1465 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1468 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1471 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1472 ----------------------------------
1475 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1476 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1479 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1480 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1481 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1482 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1483 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1485 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1486 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1487 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1489 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1490 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1493 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1496 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1499 * Fix quitting on Linux
1500 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1504 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1507 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1510 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1511 ---------------------------------
1513 Windows and Mac OS X:
1514 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1517 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1518 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1521 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1524 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1527 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1529 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1530 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1532 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1533 * RTP output and XML export
1534 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1538 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1539 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1540 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1541 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1544 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1545 --------------------------------
1547 Windows and Mac OS X:
1548 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1551 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1554 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1555 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1556 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1557 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1558 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1559 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1562 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1563 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1567 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1568 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1569 * New Luganda Translation
1572 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1573 --------------------------------
1576 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1579 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1580 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1581 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1582 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1585 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1587 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1588 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1589 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1590 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1591 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1592 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1593 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1594 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1596 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1597 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1598 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1599 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1600 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1601 * Configure and build system improvements
1602 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1605 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1606 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1607 * New icelandic translation
1610 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1611 --------------------------------
1614 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1615 #234484 and #260719.
1618 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1619 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1620 and stability reasons
1623 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1627 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1630 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1631 ----------------------------------
1634 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1637 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1638 ---------------------------------
1641 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1642 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1643 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1644 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1647 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1650 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1651 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1652 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1653 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1656 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1657 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1658 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1660 Subtitles and renderer:
1661 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1662 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1663 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1664 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1665 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1668 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1669 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1670 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1671 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1674 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1675 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1677 Miscellaneous fixes:
1678 * KDE device solid actions
1680 * Transcode integer overflow
1681 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1682 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1685 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1686 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1687 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1690 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1691 ----------------------------------
1694 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1698 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1701 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1704 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1705 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1706 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1707 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1710 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1714 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1717 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1720 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1721 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1723 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1727 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1728 * Miscellaneous fixes
1731 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1732 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1733 French and Ukrainian
1734 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1735 * New Asturian translation
1738 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1739 ----------------------------------
1742 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1744 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1747 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1750 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1751 * Various fixes for Windows
1754 * New Armenian translation
1755 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1756 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1759 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1760 --------------------------------
1763 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1764 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1765 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1768 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1769 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1772 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1773 --------------------------------
1775 Access and demuxers:
1776 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1777 * fix for podcasts parsing
1778 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1781 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1782 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1785 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1786 * fix m3u playlists exports
1789 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1792 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1795 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1798 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1801 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1804 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1805 --------------------------------
1808 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1809 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1812 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1813 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1816 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1817 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1818 * fix console output encoding
1820 Interface and extensions:
1821 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1822 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1825 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1826 --------------------------------
1829 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1830 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1831 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1832 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1833 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1834 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1835 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1836 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1837 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1838 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1839 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1840 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1841 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1842 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1843 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1844 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1848 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1849 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1850 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1851 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1852 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1855 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1858 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1859 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1860 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1864 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1867 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1868 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1869 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1872 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1873 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1874 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1875 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1878 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1879 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1882 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1883 --------------------------------
1885 Important changes for users:
1886 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1887 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1889 Important changes for packagers:
1890 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1891 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1892 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1893 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1894 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1896 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1898 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1899 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1900 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1901 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1902 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1905 * Support for the sftp protocol
1906 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1907 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1908 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1909 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1910 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1913 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1914 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1915 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1917 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1918 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1919 * Invmem module improvements
1920 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1921 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1922 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1923 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1924 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1925 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1926 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1927 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1928 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1929 * Support for VP8 codec
1930 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1933 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1934 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1935 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1936 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1937 * Various EGP improvements
1938 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1939 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1942 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1943 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1944 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1945 * Podcast images are now displayed
1948 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1949 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1950 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1951 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1952 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1953 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1954 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1955 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1956 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1957 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1958 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1961 * New content extensions lua framework
1964 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1965 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1966 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1967 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1968 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1969 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1970 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1973 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1974 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1975 * Service discovery based on libudev
1976 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1979 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1980 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1981 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1982 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1983 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1984 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1985 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1988 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1989 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1990 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1993 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1995 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1996 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1999 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2002 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2003 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2004 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2005 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2006 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2007 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2008 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2011 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2012 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2015 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2016 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2017 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2021 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2022 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2023 * Improved Solaris port
2026 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2027 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2030 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2031 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2032 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2033 * transrate: broken since too long
2034 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2035 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2036 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2037 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2038 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2039 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2040 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2041 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2042 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2043 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2044 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2045 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2046 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2047 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2050 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2051 --------------------------------
2054 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2056 Decoders/Packetizers:
2057 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2060 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2061 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2062 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2063 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2064 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2067 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2068 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2071 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2072 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2075 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2076 and Walloon translations updated
2077 * Sinhala translation started
2080 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2081 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2084 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2085 --------------------------------
2088 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2089 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2092 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2095 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2096 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2099 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2100 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2101 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2102 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2105 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2106 --------------------------------
2109 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2110 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2113 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2114 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2117 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2118 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2121 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2124 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2125 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2128 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2129 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2132 * New Walloon translation
2133 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2136 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2137 --------------------------------
2140 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2141 regressions in most popular drivers
2142 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2145 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2146 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2147 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2150 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2151 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2154 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2155 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2156 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2157 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2158 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2161 * New udev module for linux
2164 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2167 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2170 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2171 --------------------------------
2174 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2175 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2176 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2179 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2180 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2183 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2184 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2187 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2190 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2191 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2192 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2193 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2196 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2197 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2198 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2199 - no support for Goom and SDL
2200 - limited text rendering support
2201 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2204 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2205 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2206 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2207 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2208 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2209 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2210 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2211 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2212 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2216 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2219 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2222 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2223 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2224 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2225 Arabic and French translation updates
2228 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2229 --------------------------------
2232 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2233 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2234 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2235 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2236 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2237 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2240 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2241 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2242 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2245 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2246 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2247 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2250 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2253 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2254 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2257 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2258 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2259 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2260 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2261 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2262 * Fix various crashes
2265 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2267 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2271 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2272 ---------------------------------
2276 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2277 See 'Access:' for more info.
2278 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2281 * Instantaneous pausing
2282 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2283 * Finer speed control
2284 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2285 * Timeshift for most medias
2286 * RTSP trickplay support
2287 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2290 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2291 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2292 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2293 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2294 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2295 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2296 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2297 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2298 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2299 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2302 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2303 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2304 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2305 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2306 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2307 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2308 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2311 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2312 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2315 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2316 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2317 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2318 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2319 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2320 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2321 * DVB scanning on linux
2322 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2323 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2324 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2325 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2326 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2327 * MTP device access on Unix
2328 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2329 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2332 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2333 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2334 Windows and Mac OS X.
2337 * Export the playlist in HTML
2338 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2339 * Better metadata handling and reading
2341 Linux/Windows interface:
2342 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2343 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2344 * Recently played items list
2345 * Interface toolbar customizations
2346 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2347 - More menus actions
2348 - Finer speed slider
2349 - Improvements on many dialogs
2350 - New dialog for plugins listing
2351 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2352 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2353 * Better integration in GTK environments
2356 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2357 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2358 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2359 * Additional usability improvements
2362 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2363 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2364 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2365 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2366 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2369 * New Maemo port with:
2370 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2371 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2374 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2377 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2378 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2379 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2380 * Support for latest iSight models
2383 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2384 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2387 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2388 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2389 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2390 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2391 The old image video output has been removed.
2392 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2393 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2396 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2404 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2405 --------------------------------------
2411 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2412 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2413 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2414 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2415 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2416 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2417 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2419 Various fixes to the following modules:
2422 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2423 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2424 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2426 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2431 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2432 ---------------------------------
2435 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2436 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2439 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2440 ---------------------------------
2443 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2446 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2449 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2450 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2451 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2452 main controller window.
2453 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2456 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2461 * Updates of other localizations
2464 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2465 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2466 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2467 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2468 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2471 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2472 ---------------------------------
2475 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2477 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2480 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2481 --------------------------------
2486 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2487 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2490 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2491 --------------------------------
2493 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2494 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2497 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2500 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2501 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2504 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2505 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2508 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2509 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2510 * Various fixed in playlist
2513 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2516 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2519 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2520 ------------------------------------
2522 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2523 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2526 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2527 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2528 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2531 * Stability fix for the video output.
2534 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2535 --------------------------------
2538 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2539 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2540 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2541 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2542 * Fixed update system bugs
2543 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2546 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2547 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2548 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2549 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2550 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2551 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2552 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2553 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2554 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2555 modern Mac OS X versions
2558 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2559 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2561 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2562 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2565 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2566 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2567 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2568 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2569 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2570 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2573 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2574 --------------------------------
2576 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2577 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2578 * Multiple bugfixes.
2581 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2582 --------------------------------
2584 * Multiple bug fixes.
2587 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2588 ---------------------------------
2592 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2593 recent to work correctly
2594 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2595 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2596 edit the ".hosts" file.
2597 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2598 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2599 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2600 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2601 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2602 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2603 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2604 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2605 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2606 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2607 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2608 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2609 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2610 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2611 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2612 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2613 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2614 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2615 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2616 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2617 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2618 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2619 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2620 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2621 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2622 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2623 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2624 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2625 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2626 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2627 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2628 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2629 and postproc modules.
2630 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2631 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2632 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2633 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2635 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2636 filter. For example:
2637 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2638 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2640 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2641 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2647 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2649 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2650 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2653 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2654 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2656 * Shoutcast TV listings
2657 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2659 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2660 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2662 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2665 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2666 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2667 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2668 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2669 * JACK audio input support
2670 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2671 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2672 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2673 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2674 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2675 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2676 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2677 (available as a separate download).
2678 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2679 * RTMP input support
2680 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2681 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2682 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2684 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2685 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2688 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2689 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2690 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2691 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2693 * APEv1/2 tags support
2694 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2695 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2697 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2698 * TiVo Series 2 support
2699 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2704 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2705 * Flash Screen Video support
2706 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2707 * DosBox Capture support
2708 * Karl Morton's Video support
2709 * limited atrac3 support
2711 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2712 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2713 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2714 * H.264 PAFF support
2715 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2716 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2717 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2718 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2719 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2722 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2723 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2724 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2725 * AQTitle subtitles support
2726 * MKV USF subtitles support
2727 * HTML-based subtitles support
2728 * MPSub subtitles support
2729 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2730 * MPL2 subtitles support
2731 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2732 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2733 * Realtext subtitle support
2734 * DKS subtitle support
2735 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2736 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2739 * Flash Screen Video support
2740 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2742 Video outputs and filters:
2743 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2744 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2745 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2746 * New puzzle video output filter
2747 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2748 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2750 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2751 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2752 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2753 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2754 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2755 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2756 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2757 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2758 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2759 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2760 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2761 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2762 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2763 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2765 Audio outputs and filters:
2766 * Replay gain support
2767 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2768 new scaletempo audio filter)
2769 * New spatializer audio filter
2770 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2773 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2774 * New RTP payload formats:
2775 * Speex voice audio codec
2776 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2777 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2778 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2779 * DCCP transport for RTP
2780 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2785 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2786 end-user suitable way.
2787 * Improved user interaction
2788 * Improved mouse gestures
2789 * Vastly improved Update checker
2790 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2792 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2793 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2795 * Improved video output features
2796 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2797 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2798 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2799 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2800 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2802 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2803 if libncursesw is available.
2804 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2805 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2806 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2808 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2809 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2810 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2811 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2812 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2813 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2814 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2815 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2818 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2819 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2820 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2823 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2824 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2825 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2826 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2827 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2828 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2831 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2832 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2842 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2843 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2844 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2847 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2848 ----------------------------------
2851 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2854 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2855 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2856 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2857 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2858 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2859 * Updated Polish translation
2862 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2863 ----------------------------------
2866 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2867 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2868 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2871 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2872 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2873 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2874 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2875 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2876 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2877 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2878 to an unexpected application termination
2879 * New Serbian translation
2880 * Updated Romanian translation
2883 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2884 ----------------------------------
2887 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2888 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2889 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2890 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2891 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2892 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2893 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2894 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2897 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2898 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2899 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2900 * Fixed AAC resampling
2901 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2902 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2905 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2906 ----------------------------------
2909 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2910 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2911 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2912 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2913 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2916 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2917 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2918 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2919 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2920 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2923 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2924 ----------------------------------
2927 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2928 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2931 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2932 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2933 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2934 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2936 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2940 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2943 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2946 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2949 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2952 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2953 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2954 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2955 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2956 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2958 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2959 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2960 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2961 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2964 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2967 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2968 ----------------------------------
2971 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2972 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2973 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2975 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2976 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2978 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2979 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2982 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2984 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2985 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2986 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2987 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2988 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2989 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2990 two different movies
2991 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2992 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2993 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2996 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2999 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3000 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3001 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3002 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3005 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3006 ----------------------------------
3008 Various bugfixes, notably:
3009 * Windows Vista compatibility
3010 * Cropping in Direct3D
3011 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3012 * RSS filter string overflow
3014 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3016 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3017 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3020 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3021 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3024 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3027 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3030 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3033 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3034 ----------------------------------
3036 Various bugfixes, notably:
3037 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3038 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3039 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3040 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3041 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3042 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3045 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3046 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3049 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3051 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3052 * Diverse usability improvements
3053 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3054 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3055 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3058 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3059 ---------------------------------
3061 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3062 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3065 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3068 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3069 --------------------------------
3072 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3075 * Support for RTSP authentication
3076 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3077 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3078 * ATSC support for DVB input
3079 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3080 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3081 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3084 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3085 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3086 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3087 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3088 * Matroska WavPack support
3089 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3090 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3091 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3094 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3095 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3096 * Improved libcaca support
3100 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3101 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3103 * Systray support in skins
3105 * Support for Apple Remote control
3106 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3107 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3108 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3109 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3111 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3114 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3115 Windows 9x/ME users:
3116 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3117 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3118 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3119 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3120 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3122 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3123 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3132 * Updates to the libvlc API
3133 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3136 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3137 --------------------------------
3140 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3141 * Support for downloading updates
3145 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3146 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3147 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3148 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3150 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3151 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3152 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3155 * Cook (Real audio) support
3157 Playlist / Services discovery:
3158 * XSPF playlist support
3160 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3163 * New JACK audio output
3166 * New video filters:
3167 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3168 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3169 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3170 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3171 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3172 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3175 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3178 * System to inform the user and request information
3179 - HTTP authentication
3183 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3184 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3185 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3188 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3189 - Improved playlist handling
3190 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3192 - Embedded Video output
3193 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3194 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3195 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3196 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3197 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3199 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3200 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3203 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3206 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3207 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3208 * Growl "Now playing" support
3211 * Ability to log to syslog
3212 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3215 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3217 * A bit more automatic testing
3220 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3221 ---------------------------------
3224 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3225 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3228 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3229 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3232 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3235 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3236 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3242 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3245 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3246 --------------------------------
3249 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3253 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3254 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3255 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3258 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3259 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3260 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3261 * GnomeVFS input module
3262 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3263 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3266 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3267 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3268 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3271 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3272 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3278 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3279 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3282 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3283 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3284 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3287 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3289 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3290 - New extended controls panel
3291 - New bookmarks window
3292 - Fixed playlist sorting
3293 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3295 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3296 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3297 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3298 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3302 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3303 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3305 - Include macro to include other files
3309 * Should now work outside IE as well
3312 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3315 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3316 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3319 The following languages were added:
3323 * Simplified Chinese
3324 The following languages were re-added:
3328 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3329 --------------------------------
3332 * Rewrite of the playlist
3334 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3335 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3336 * Preferences improvements:
3337 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3338 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3340 * Core image manipulation support
3341 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3342 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3343 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3344 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3345 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3346 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3347 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3348 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3349 * Access filter architecture
3350 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3351 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3355 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3356 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3357 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3358 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3359 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3360 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3361 * Massive Matroska improvements
3362 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3364 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3365 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3366 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3367 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3368 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3370 Decoders / Encoders:
3371 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3372 * PNG decoder/encoder
3373 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3374 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3377 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3380 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3381 * Brand new SAP module
3382 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3383 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3384 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3385 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3386 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3387 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3391 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3394 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3395 * Image file video output (png)
3396 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3397 * Improvements to wall video filter
3398 * Support for font color and opacity
3404 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3405 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3406 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3410 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3411 - Improved preferences
3412 - Improvements to the wizard
3413 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3415 - Redesigned playlist
3416 - Improved preferences
3418 - Support for multiple actions
3421 - Support for the new playlist system
3423 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3426 * Screensaver disabling fix
3427 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3428 * Support for no-decoration windows
3431 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3432 * The OpenGL video output is back
3433 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3434 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3435 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3436 is not yet available in the new module
3437 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3440 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3449 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3452 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3455 The following languages were added:
3461 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3462 --------------------------------
3465 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3466 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3469 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3470 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3471 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3474 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3477 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3480 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3483 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3484 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3485 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3489 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3491 * Support of playlist group announcement
3494 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3495 --------------------------------
3498 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3499 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3500 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3501 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3502 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3503 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3506 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3507 (Stream your desktop)
3508 * Improved DVD support:
3509 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3510 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3511 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3512 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3513 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3514 (selection of titles/chapters).
3517 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3518 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3519 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3520 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3521 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3522 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3523 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3524 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3525 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3526 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3529 * G.726 audio support
3530 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3531 * MPEG-4 text support
3532 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3533 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3534 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3538 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3539 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3540 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3541 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3542 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3543 * DVB subtitles encoder
3544 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3545 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3547 * Text track muxing for mp4
3548 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3549 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3550 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3551 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3552 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3553 * Improved ASF muxer
3555 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3556 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3557 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3560 * New audio equalizer filter
3561 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3562 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3563 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3564 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3567 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3568 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3569 with support for effects.
3570 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3571 - New filters can be streamed.
3572 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3573 - Centralized scaling and blending
3575 - "time", to display current time
3576 - "marq", to display a marquee
3579 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3580 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3581 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3582 * A few skins2 improvements
3583 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3584 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3585 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3586 * Improved CORBA control module
3589 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3590 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3591 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3594 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3595 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3596 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3599 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3600 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3601 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3602 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3603 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3606 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3609 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3610 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3613 * Server/client network synchronization module
3614 * VBrick streams fully supported
3615 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3619 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3620 --------------------------------
3623 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3624 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3625 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3626 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3629 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3630 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3631 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3632 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3633 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3634 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3635 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3638 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3639 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3640 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3641 * Improved directory access module.
3642 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3643 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3644 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3645 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3646 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3649 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3650 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3651 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3654 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3655 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3656 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3659 * Improved session announcement system.
3660 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3661 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3662 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3663 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3664 * Improved transrater.
3665 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3666 * New configuration system.
3667 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3670 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3671 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3672 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3673 * Supports scheduling.
3674 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3675 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3678 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3679 - Ability to embed video output.
3680 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3681 - Lots of improvements.
3682 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3683 - New design and set of icons.
3684 - Ability to embed video output.
3685 - Support for hotkeys.
3686 - Support for bookmarks.
3688 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3689 - Better hotkeys handling.
3692 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3693 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3694 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3695 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3698 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3699 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3700 * Improved Windows installer.
3706 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3707 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3710 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3711 ---------------------------------
3714 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3715 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3718 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3719 --------------------------------
3722 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3723 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3726 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3727 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3728 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3729 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3732 * Internal improvments
3733 * Improved import/export
3736 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3738 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3739 small and strange formats.
3741 * New MOD audio demux.
3742 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3743 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3744 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3745 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3748 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3749 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3750 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3756 * New opengl video output plugin.
3759 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3760 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3763 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3764 --------------------------------
3767 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3768 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3769 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3770 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3771 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3772 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3773 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3774 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3777 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3782 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3783 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3784 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3785 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3786 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3787 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3788 * Better Icecast support.
3789 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3790 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3793 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3794 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3795 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3796 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3797 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3798 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3799 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3802 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3803 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3804 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3805 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3806 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3807 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3808 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3809 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3810 * Preliminary RTP support.
3811 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3816 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3817 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3819 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3820 - Improvements and help in preferences
3821 - New streaming wizard
3822 - Revised Disc Open menu
3824 - Improvements of the standard pages
3825 - Support for new commands
3826 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3829 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3830 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3833 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3834 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3835 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3836 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3837 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3838 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3839 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3840 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3841 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3844 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3846 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3847 * Support for Panther.
3848 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3849 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3852 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3853 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3854 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3855 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3856 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3857 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3858 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3859 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3862 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3863 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3864 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3867 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3870 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3871 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3872 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3873 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3876 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3877 --------------------------------
3880 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3883 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3884 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3887 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3888 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3891 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3894 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3895 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3898 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3901 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3904 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3905 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3909 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3910 --------------------------------
3913 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3914 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3918 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3919 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3920 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3922 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3923 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3926 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3929 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3932 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3933 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3937 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3938 --------------------------------
3941 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3942 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3946 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3947 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3948 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3949 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3950 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3953 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3954 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3955 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3958 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3959 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3960 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3963 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3964 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3965 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3966 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3967 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3970 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3971 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3972 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3975 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3978 * Improved build system.
3979 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3980 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3981 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3982 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3985 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3986 --------------------------------
3989 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3992 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3993 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3994 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3995 * Video 4 Linux support
3996 * CD Digital Audio support
3997 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4000 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4001 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4002 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4003 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4006 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4007 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4008 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4009 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4010 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4011 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4012 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4015 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4016 * New HTTP remote control interface
4019 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4020 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4021 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4022 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4023 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4026 * New reset option for the preferences
4027 * You can set your language in the prefences
4028 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4029 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4030 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4031 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4034 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4035 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4036 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4039 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4040 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4041 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4042 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4043 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4044 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4045 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4046 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4047 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4048 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4051 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4052 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4053 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4054 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4055 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4056 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4057 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4060 * Interface localization
4061 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4062 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4063 * New full-featured Preferences window
4066 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4067 --------------------------------
4070 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4071 * support for skins at the interface level
4072 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4073 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4074 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4075 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4076 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4079 * fixed HTTP redirects
4080 * support for opening an entire directory
4081 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4082 * new video4linux access plug-in
4083 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4086 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4087 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4088 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4091 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4092 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4093 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4094 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4095 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4096 * new codec for raw I420 video
4097 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4100 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4101 (although it still misses some important features)
4102 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4105 * new HTTP output support
4106 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4107 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4110 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4113 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4116 * reorderable playlist
4117 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4118 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4119 * support for mono audio output devices
4120 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4121 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4122 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4123 * the messages window remembers more lines
4124 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4125 * http and ogg stream output options
4126 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4129 * new skinnable interface
4130 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4132 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4133 * support for FLAC audio format
4134 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4136 * network tab in the interface
4137 * "apply" handling in preferences
4140 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4141 ---------------------------------
4144 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4145 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4146 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4147 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4149 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4150 * DTS S/PDIF support
4153 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4154 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4155 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4156 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4159 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4160 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4163 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4166 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4169 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4171 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4172 * rc interface is now fully useable
4173 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4176 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4177 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4178 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4179 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4180 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4182 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4183 * support for mouse gestures
4184 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4187 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4188 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4191 * improved ID3 tag detection
4192 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4193 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4194 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4196 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4199 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4200 ---------------------------------
4203 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4204 English was set as the preferred language
4207 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4208 --------------------------------
4211 * new mouse gesture interface
4212 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4216 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4217 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4218 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4221 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4222 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4226 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4229 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4230 without the user consent
4233 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4235 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4236 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4237 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4240 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4241 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4242 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4243 * playlist enhancements
4244 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4245 * new step forward/step backward commands
4246 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4247 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4248 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4251 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4252 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4253 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4256 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4257 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4260 * native video output is working again
4261 * only commandline interface support
4262 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4265 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4266 --------------------------------
4269 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4270 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4271 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4272 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4273 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4274 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4275 and A/52 streams are supported)
4276 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4281 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4282 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4283 * VCD entry points support
4284 * VCD image file support
4287 * support for *.asf format
4288 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4289 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4290 * support for ogg encapsulation
4291 * support for raw DV format
4292 * support for *.wav format
4293 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4296 Stream discovery & playlists:
4297 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4298 * support for .m3u file format
4299 * support for .asx file format
4300 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4303 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4304 (only available with the .avi demux)
4305 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4306 * support for raw PCM data
4307 * support for Cinepak video codec
4308 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4309 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4310 * support for Xvid codec
4311 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4312 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4313 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4315 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4317 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4320 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4323 * new WxWindows interface
4324 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4325 device and the channels configuration
4326 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4327 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4328 format that VLC can play
4329 * new swedish translation
4330 * enhancements of the playlist window
4331 * new messages window to see debug info
4332 * fixed a few crashes
4335 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4336 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4337 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4338 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working