1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
6 * New SMB access module using libdsm
7 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
8 * Improvements of cookie handling (domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
11 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
12 * Support 4:4:4 chroma sampling with VDPAU hw acceleration
15 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
18 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
21 * Support key accelerators
24 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
25 --------------------------------
28 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
31 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
32 * Add extensions download from external repositories
33 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
34 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
37 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
38 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
39 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
40 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
42 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
43 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
46 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
47 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
48 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
49 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
50 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
51 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
52 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
53 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
54 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
55 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
56 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
57 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
58 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
59 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
60 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
61 * New jpeg image decoder
62 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
63 * New SVG image decoder
64 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
65 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
66 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
69 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
70 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
71 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
72 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
73 * New png image encoder using libpng
76 * New CAF format module
77 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
78 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
79 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
80 synchronization and tracks exclusion
81 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
82 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
85 * Basic support for WebVTT
86 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
87 * Support HDPR TS files
88 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
89 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
90 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
91 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
92 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
93 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
94 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
95 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
96 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
97 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
98 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
99 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
100 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
101 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
104 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
105 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
107 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
110 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
111 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
112 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
113 * New Android native window provider module
114 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
115 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
116 * Add mmal based video output
119 * New Oldmovie effect filter
120 * New VHS effect filter
121 * New Freeze effect filter
122 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
123 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
124 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
127 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
128 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
129 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
130 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
131 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
132 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
135 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
136 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
137 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
138 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
139 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
140 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
141 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
142 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
143 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
145 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
146 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
147 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
150 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
151 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
154 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
155 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
158 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
159 * Add record button in Qt menus
160 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
161 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
162 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and MacOS
165 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
166 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
167 * Fixes for advanced preferences
168 * Option to increase playlist font size
171 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
172 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
173 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
176 * ios video output: use ios2
177 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
178 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
181 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
182 --------------------------------
185 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
188 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
191 * Fix DVD playback regression
192 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
193 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
196 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
197 --------------------------------
200 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
201 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
204 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
205 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
206 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
209 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
210 by updating codec libraries
211 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
212 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
213 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
216 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
217 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
218 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
219 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
222 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
223 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
226 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
227 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
228 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
229 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
230 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
233 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
234 * Fix record file names
237 * Fix minimal size possible on start
238 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
239 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
240 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
241 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
244 * Fix album art display on Windows
247 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
248 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
249 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
250 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
251 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
252 and Simplified Chinese translations
253 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
256 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
257 --------------------------------
260 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
261 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
262 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
263 audio devices on OS X
264 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
265 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
268 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
269 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
272 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
273 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
276 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
279 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
280 * Improve A-B loop control
281 * Fix album art update when changing media
284 * Add a language option in the interface
285 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
286 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
287 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
288 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
289 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
290 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
291 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
294 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
297 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
298 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
299 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
300 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
303 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
304 --------------------------------
307 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
309 * Fix some subtitles track selection
312 * VP9 support in WebM
313 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
314 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
317 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
318 * Support Speex in ogg files
319 * Fix some .mov playlists support
320 * Support Alac in mkv
321 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
322 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
325 * Fix DVB options parsing
326 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
327 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
330 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
331 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
334 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
335 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
338 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
339 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
340 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
341 * Fix play after drag'n drop
342 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
345 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
346 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
349 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
350 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
353 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
354 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
355 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
356 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
357 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
358 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
359 * Improves interface resizings
362 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
363 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
364 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
365 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
366 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
370 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
371 --------------------------------
374 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
375 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
376 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
377 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
378 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
380 3rd party libraries (contrib):
381 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
384 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
385 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
386 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
387 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
388 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
391 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
392 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
396 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
397 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
398 * Support for Ulead DV audio
399 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
400 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
401 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
402 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
403 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
404 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
405 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
406 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
407 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
408 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
411 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
412 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
413 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
416 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
417 remove support for previous OS X releases
418 * Major improvements in DASH support
419 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
420 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
421 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
422 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
423 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
424 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
425 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
426 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
427 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
428 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
429 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
432 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
433 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
434 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
435 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
436 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
437 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
438 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
439 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
440 * Support for more MJPEG streams
441 * Add support for liveleak streams
442 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
443 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
444 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
447 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
448 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
449 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
450 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
451 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
452 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
453 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
454 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
455 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
456 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
457 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
460 * New remapping channel filter
461 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
462 * New VSXu visualization plugin
463 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
464 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
465 * New gain audio filter
468 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
469 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
470 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
471 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
472 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
473 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
474 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
475 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
476 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
479 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
480 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
481 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
482 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
483 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
484 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
485 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
488 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
489 * Options support for AVIO output module
490 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
491 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
492 * Livehttp stream encryption support
493 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
494 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
497 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
500 * configurable password for the HTTP server
501 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
502 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
503 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
504 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
505 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
506 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
507 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
511 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
514 * Add support for multiple video outputs
515 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
517 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
518 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
519 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
520 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
521 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
522 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
523 VLC's internal volume level
524 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
526 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
527 selection and to manage the list of presets
528 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
529 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
530 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
531 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
532 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
533 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
534 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
535 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
536 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
537 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
539 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
540 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
541 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
542 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
543 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
544 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
545 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
546 3rd party applications
547 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
548 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
549 (system-wide settings)
550 * Add support for the Video Title option
551 * Add support for the Boss Key
552 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
553 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
556 * Partial support for Qt5.0
557 * Menus modifications and improvements
558 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
559 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
560 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
561 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
562 * EPG display fixes and improvements
563 * Add SD pixmap sources
564 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
565 * Display playlist total duration
566 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
567 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
568 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
573 * Extend sliders, offsets options
574 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
575 * Numerous fixes and improvements
576 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
579 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
580 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
581 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
582 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
583 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
584 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
585 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
586 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
587 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
588 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
591 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
592 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
593 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
594 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
595 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
596 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
598 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
599 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
600 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
601 * Broken crop video filter
603 * OSD parser and menu
604 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
605 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
606 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
607 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
611 * Update of all translations
614 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
615 --------------------------------
618 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
619 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
622 * Fix modplug security issues
625 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
626 --------------------------------
630 * Fix crash in QTsound
631 * Fix screen mouse file location
632 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
635 * Fix use after free in sgimb
636 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
639 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
642 * Fix interface crashes
643 * Fix autostart playback option
644 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
647 * update Welsh translation
648 * New Kannada translation
651 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
652 --------------------------------
655 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
656 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
660 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
663 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
666 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
669 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
673 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
676 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
679 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
680 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
681 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
684 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
685 --------------------------------
688 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
691 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
694 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
695 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
696 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
697 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
698 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
699 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
702 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
703 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
704 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
705 * 3rd party codecs updates
708 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
709 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
710 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
711 in the advanced preferences panel
712 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
713 * Fix crash within the video output code
714 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
715 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
716 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
717 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
719 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
722 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
725 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
726 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
729 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
732 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
733 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
734 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
735 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
736 Dutch, Danish, translations
737 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
740 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
741 --------------------------------
744 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
747 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
748 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
749 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
752 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
753 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
754 * Fix koreus lua parser
755 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
756 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
757 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
758 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
761 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
762 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
765 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
768 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
769 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
770 * Fix Time counter UI look
771 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
774 * Fix https streaming
777 * Fix audio and video track selection:
778 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
779 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
782 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
783 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
784 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
785 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
786 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
789 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
790 --------------------------------
793 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
794 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
795 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
796 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
797 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
798 during playback on Mac OS X
801 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
802 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
803 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
806 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
807 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
808 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
809 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
810 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
813 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
814 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
815 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
816 * Support Youtube live streams
819 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
822 * Fix media info dialog update
823 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
824 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
825 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
826 * Fix album art display at start
829 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
830 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
831 * Fix menus display and behavior
832 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
833 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
834 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
835 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
836 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
837 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
838 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
841 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
842 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
843 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
844 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
845 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
846 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
847 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
848 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
849 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
852 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
853 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
854 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
855 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
856 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
859 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
860 --------------------------------
863 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
866 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
867 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
870 * Add GateKeeper support
871 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
872 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
873 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
876 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
879 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
880 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
881 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
882 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
883 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
886 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
887 --------------------------------
890 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
891 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
892 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
893 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
894 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
895 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
896 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
897 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
898 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
899 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
900 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
904 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
905 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
906 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
907 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
908 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
909 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
910 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
911 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
912 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
913 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
914 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
915 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
918 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
919 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
921 * Fix MP3 free format support
924 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
925 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
926 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
927 * Fix for DVB channels file support
928 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
931 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
932 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
934 Audio filters and output:
935 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
936 * Fix DirectSound device selection
937 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
938 * Do not apply volume in file output
939 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
940 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
943 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
944 the persistant media library
945 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
946 to the media library or the temporary playlist
947 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
948 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
949 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
950 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
951 press on the Play/Pause button
952 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
953 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
954 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
955 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
956 * Many Fullscreen fixes
957 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
958 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
959 Synchronization panel
960 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
961 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
962 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
963 * Fix crashes on exit
964 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
966 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
967 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
968 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
969 automatically reset on the first launch.
970 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
971 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
972 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
975 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
976 * Fixes for icecast SD
979 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
980 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
981 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
982 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
983 * Fix tags and file names display
984 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
987 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
988 * Fix for key events and focus loss
991 * Fix display of some buttons
992 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
993 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
996 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
997 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
998 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1001 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1002 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1003 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1004 Thai translations update
1005 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1008 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1009 --------------------------------
1012 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1013 * fix the samba module compilation
1014 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1015 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1016 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1017 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1020 * Support for MXPEG files
1021 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1022 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1025 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1026 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1027 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1030 * Fix ogm header creation
1033 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1034 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1037 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1038 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1039 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1040 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1043 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1046 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1047 * allow to hide the sidebar
1048 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1049 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1050 * noticebly faster launch time
1051 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1052 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1053 * improve track synchronization panel
1054 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1055 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1058 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1059 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1060 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1061 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1064 * fix for menus display
1065 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1066 * documentation update
1069 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1070 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1073 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1074 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1075 * Update Jamendo selections
1079 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1080 * fix a crash on VLM close
1083 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1084 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1085 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1086 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1089 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1092 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1093 ---------------------------------
1096 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1097 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1098 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1099 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1100 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1101 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1102 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1103 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1104 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1105 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1106 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1107 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1108 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1109 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1110 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1111 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1112 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1113 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1114 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1115 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1116 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1117 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1118 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1119 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1120 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1121 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1123 Important changes for packagers:
1124 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1125 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1126 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1127 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1128 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1129 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1130 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1131 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1132 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1133 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1136 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1137 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1138 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1139 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1140 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1141 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1142 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1145 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1146 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1147 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1148 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1149 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1150 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1151 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1152 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1153 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1154 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1155 * PulseAudio audio input support
1156 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1157 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1158 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1159 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1160 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1161 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1162 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1163 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1166 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1167 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1168 are notably concerned.
1169 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1170 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1171 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1172 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1173 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1174 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1175 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1176 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1177 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1178 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1179 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1180 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1181 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1182 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1183 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1186 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1187 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1188 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1189 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1190 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1191 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1192 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1193 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1194 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1195 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1196 * Improved support of tracker files
1197 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1200 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1201 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1202 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1203 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1204 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1205 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1206 and important cleanups and optimisations
1207 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1208 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1209 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1210 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1211 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1212 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1213 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1214 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1215 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1216 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1217 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1218 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1219 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1220 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1221 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1222 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1223 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1224 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1225 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1226 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1227 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1230 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1231 * New video output for iOS platform
1232 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1233 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1234 * Various vmem improvements
1235 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1236 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1237 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1238 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1239 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1240 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1242 Audio Output and Filters:
1243 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1244 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1245 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1246 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1247 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1248 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1249 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1250 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1251 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1252 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1255 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1256 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1257 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1258 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1259 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1260 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1261 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1262 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1263 * New anti-flickering filter
1264 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1265 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1266 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1267 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1268 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1269 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1270 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1273 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1274 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1275 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1276 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1277 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1278 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1279 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1280 * Major rework of VoD support
1281 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1282 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1283 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1284 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1285 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1286 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1287 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1288 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1289 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1290 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1293 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1294 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1297 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1298 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1299 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1300 list of available audio and video filters
1301 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1302 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1303 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1306 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1307 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1308 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1309 * id3tag: use taglib
1310 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1311 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1312 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1313 * removal of the noise filter
1314 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1315 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1316 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1317 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1320 * Update of translations for most languages.
1321 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1324 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1325 ----------------------------------
1328 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1329 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1332 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1333 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1336 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1337 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1338 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1341 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1344 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1345 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1348 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1351 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1352 ----------------------------------
1355 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1356 including support for OS X Lion
1357 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1358 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1361 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1364 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1365 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1366 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1369 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1372 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1373 ----------------------------------
1376 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1377 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1380 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1381 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1382 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1383 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1384 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1386 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1387 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1388 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1390 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1391 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1394 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1397 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1400 * Fix quitting on Linux
1401 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1405 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1408 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1411 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1412 ---------------------------------
1414 Windows and Mac OS X:
1415 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1418 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1419 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1422 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1425 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1428 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1430 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1431 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1433 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1434 * RTP output and XML export
1435 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1439 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1440 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1441 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1442 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1445 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1446 --------------------------------
1448 Windows and Mac OS X:
1449 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1452 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1455 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1456 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1457 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1458 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1459 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1460 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1463 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1464 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1468 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1469 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1470 * New Luganda Translation
1473 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1474 --------------------------------
1477 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1480 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1481 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1482 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1483 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1486 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1488 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1489 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1490 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1491 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1492 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1493 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1494 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1495 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1497 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1498 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1499 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1500 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1501 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1502 * Configure and build system improvements
1503 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1506 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1507 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1508 * New icelandic translation
1511 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1512 --------------------------------
1515 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1516 #234484 and #260719.
1519 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1520 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1521 and stability reasons
1524 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1528 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1531 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1532 ----------------------------------
1535 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1538 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1539 ---------------------------------
1542 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1543 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1544 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1545 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1548 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1551 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1552 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1553 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1554 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1557 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1558 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1559 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1561 Subtitles and renderer:
1562 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1563 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1564 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1565 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1566 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1569 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1570 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1571 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1572 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1575 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1576 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1578 Miscellaneous fixes:
1579 * KDE device solid actions
1581 * Transcode integer overflow
1582 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1583 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1586 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1587 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1588 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1591 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1592 ----------------------------------
1595 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1599 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1602 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1605 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1606 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1607 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1608 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1611 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1615 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1618 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1621 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1622 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1624 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1628 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1629 * Miscellaneous fixes
1632 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1633 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1634 French and Ukrainian
1635 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1636 * New Asturian translation
1639 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1640 ----------------------------------
1643 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1645 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1648 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1651 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1652 * Various fixes for Windows
1655 * New Armenian translation
1656 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1657 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1660 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1661 --------------------------------
1664 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1665 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1666 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1669 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1670 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1673 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1674 --------------------------------
1676 Access and demuxers:
1677 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1678 * fix for podcasts parsing
1679 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1682 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1683 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1686 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1687 * fix m3u playlists exports
1690 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1693 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1696 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1699 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1702 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1705 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1706 --------------------------------
1709 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1710 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1713 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1714 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1717 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1718 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1719 * fix console output encoding
1721 Interface and extensions:
1722 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1723 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1726 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1727 --------------------------------
1730 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1731 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1732 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1733 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1734 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1735 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1736 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1737 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1738 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1739 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1740 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1741 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1742 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1743 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1744 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1745 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1749 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1750 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1751 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1752 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1753 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1756 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1759 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1760 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1761 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1765 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1768 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1769 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1770 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1773 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1774 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1775 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1776 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1779 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1780 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1783 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1784 --------------------------------
1786 Important changes for users:
1787 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1788 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1790 Important changes for packagers:
1791 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1792 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1793 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1794 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1795 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1797 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1799 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1800 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1801 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1802 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1803 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1806 * Support for the sftp protocol
1807 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1808 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1809 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1810 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1811 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1814 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1815 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1816 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1818 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1819 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1820 * Invmem module improvements
1821 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1822 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1823 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1824 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1825 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1826 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1827 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1828 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1829 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1830 * Support for VP8 codec
1831 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1834 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1835 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1836 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1837 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1838 * Various EGP improvements
1839 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1840 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1843 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1844 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1845 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1846 * Podcast images are now displayed
1849 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1850 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1851 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1852 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1853 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1854 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1855 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1856 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1857 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1858 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1859 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1862 * New content extensions lua framework
1865 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1866 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1867 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1868 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1869 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1870 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1871 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1874 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1875 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1876 * Service discovery based on libudev
1877 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1880 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1881 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1882 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1883 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1884 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1885 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1886 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1889 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1890 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1891 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1894 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1896 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1897 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1900 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1903 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1904 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1905 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1906 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1907 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1908 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1909 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1912 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1913 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1916 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1917 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1918 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1922 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1923 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1924 * Improved Solaris port
1927 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1928 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1931 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1932 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1933 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1934 * transrate: broken since too long
1935 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1936 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1937 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1938 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1939 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1940 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1941 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1942 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1943 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1944 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1945 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1946 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1947 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1948 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1951 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1952 --------------------------------
1955 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1957 Decoders/Packetizers:
1958 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1961 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1962 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1963 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1964 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1965 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1968 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1969 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1972 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1973 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1976 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1977 and Walloon translations updated
1978 * Sinhala translation started
1981 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1982 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1985 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1986 --------------------------------
1989 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1990 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1993 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1996 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1997 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2000 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2001 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2002 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2003 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2006 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2007 --------------------------------
2010 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2011 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2014 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2015 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2018 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2019 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2022 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2025 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2026 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2029 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2030 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2033 * New Walloon translation
2034 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2037 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2038 --------------------------------
2041 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2042 regressions in most popular drivers
2043 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2046 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2047 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2048 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2051 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2052 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2055 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2056 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2057 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2058 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2059 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2062 * New udev module for linux
2065 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2068 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2071 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2072 --------------------------------
2075 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2076 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2077 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2080 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2081 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2084 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2085 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2088 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2091 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2092 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2093 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2094 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2097 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2098 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2099 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2100 - no support for Goom and SDL
2101 - limited text rendering support
2102 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2105 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2106 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2107 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2108 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2109 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2110 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2111 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2112 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2113 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2117 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2120 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2123 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2124 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2125 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2126 Arabic and French translation updates
2129 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2130 --------------------------------
2133 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2134 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2135 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2136 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2137 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2138 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2141 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2142 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2143 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2146 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2147 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2148 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2151 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2154 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2155 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2158 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2159 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2160 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2161 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2162 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2163 * Fix various crashes
2166 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2168 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2172 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2173 ---------------------------------
2177 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2178 See 'Access:' for more info.
2179 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2182 * Instantaneous pausing
2183 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2184 * Finer speed control
2185 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2186 * Timeshift for most medias
2187 * RTSP trickplay support
2188 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2191 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2192 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2193 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2194 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2195 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2196 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2197 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2198 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2199 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2200 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2203 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2204 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2205 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2206 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2207 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2208 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2209 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2212 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2213 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2216 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2217 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2218 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2219 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2220 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2221 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2222 * DVB scanning on linux
2223 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2224 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2225 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2226 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2227 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2228 * MTP device access on Unix
2229 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2230 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2233 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2234 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2235 Windows and Mac OS X.
2238 * Export the playlist in HTML
2239 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2240 * Better metadata handling and reading
2242 Linux/Windows interface:
2243 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2244 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2245 * Recently played items list
2246 * Interface toolbar customizations
2247 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2248 - More menus actions
2249 - Finer speed slider
2250 - Improvements on many dialogs
2251 - New dialog for plugins listing
2252 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2253 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2254 * Better integration in GTK environments
2257 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2258 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2259 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2260 * Additional usability improvements
2263 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2264 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2265 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2266 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2267 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2270 * New Maemo port with:
2271 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2272 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2275 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2278 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2279 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2280 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2281 * Support for latest iSight models
2284 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2285 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2288 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2289 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2290 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2291 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2292 The old image video output has been removed.
2293 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2294 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2297 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2305 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2306 --------------------------------------
2312 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2313 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2314 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2315 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2316 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2317 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2318 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2320 Various fixes to the following modules:
2323 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2324 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2325 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2327 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2332 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2333 ---------------------------------
2336 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2337 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2340 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2341 ---------------------------------
2344 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2347 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2350 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2351 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2352 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2353 main controller window.
2354 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2357 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2362 * Updates of other localizations
2365 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2366 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2367 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2368 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2369 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2372 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2373 ---------------------------------
2376 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2378 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2381 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2382 --------------------------------
2387 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2388 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2391 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2392 --------------------------------
2394 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2395 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2398 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2401 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2402 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2405 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2406 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2409 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2410 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2411 * Various fixed in playlist
2414 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2417 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2420 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2421 ------------------------------------
2423 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2424 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2427 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2428 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2429 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2432 * Stability fix for the video output.
2435 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2436 --------------------------------
2439 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2440 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2441 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2442 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2443 * Fixed update system bugs
2444 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2447 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2448 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2449 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2450 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2451 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2452 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2453 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2454 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2455 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2456 modern Mac OS X versions
2459 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2460 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2462 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2463 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2466 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2467 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2468 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2469 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2470 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2471 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2474 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2475 --------------------------------
2477 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2478 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2479 * Multiple bugfixes.
2482 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2483 --------------------------------
2485 * Multiple bug fixes.
2488 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2489 ---------------------------------
2493 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2494 recent to work correctly
2495 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2496 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2497 edit the ".hosts" file.
2498 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2499 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2500 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2501 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2502 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2503 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2504 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2505 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2506 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2507 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2508 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2509 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2510 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2511 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2512 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2513 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2514 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2515 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2516 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2517 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2518 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2519 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2520 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2521 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2522 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2523 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2524 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2525 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2526 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2527 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2528 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2529 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2530 and postproc modules.
2531 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2532 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2533 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2534 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2536 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2537 filter. For example:
2538 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2539 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2541 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2542 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2548 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2550 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2551 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2554 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2555 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2557 * Shoutcast TV listings
2558 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2560 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2561 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2563 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2566 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2567 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2568 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2569 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2570 * JACK audio input support
2571 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2572 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2573 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2574 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2575 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2576 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2577 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2578 (available as a separate download).
2579 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2580 * RTMP input support
2581 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2582 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2583 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2585 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2586 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2589 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2590 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2591 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2592 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2594 * APEv1/2 tags support
2595 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2596 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2598 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2599 * TiVo Series 2 support
2600 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2605 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2606 * Flash Screen Video support
2607 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2608 * DosBox Capture support
2609 * Karl Morton's Video support
2610 * limited atrac3 support
2612 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2613 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2614 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2615 * H.264 PAFF support
2616 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2617 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2618 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2619 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2620 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2623 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2624 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2625 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2626 * AQTitle subtitles support
2627 * MKV USF subtitles support
2628 * HTML-based subtitles support
2629 * MPSub subtitles support
2630 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2631 * MPL2 subtitles support
2632 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2633 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2634 * Realtext subtitle support
2635 * DKS subtitle support
2636 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2637 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2640 * Flash Screen Video support
2641 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2643 Video outputs and filters:
2644 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2645 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2646 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2647 * New puzzle video output filter
2648 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2649 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2651 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2652 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2653 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2654 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2655 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2656 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2657 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2658 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2659 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2660 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2661 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2662 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2663 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2664 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2666 Audio outputs and filters:
2667 * Replay gain support
2668 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2669 new scaletempo audio filter)
2670 * New spatializer audio filter
2671 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2674 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2675 * New RTP payload formats:
2676 * Speex voice audio codec
2677 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2678 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2679 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2680 * DCCP transport for RTP
2681 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2686 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2687 end-user suitable way.
2688 * Improved user interaction
2689 * Improved mouse gestures
2690 * Vastly improved Update checker
2691 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2693 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2694 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2696 * Improved video output features
2697 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2698 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2699 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2700 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2701 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2703 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2704 if libncursesw is available.
2705 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2706 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2707 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2709 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2710 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2711 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2712 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2713 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2714 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2715 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2716 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2719 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2720 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2721 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2724 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2725 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2726 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2727 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2728 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2729 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2732 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2733 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2743 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2744 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2745 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2748 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2749 ----------------------------------
2752 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2755 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2756 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2757 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2758 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2759 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2760 * Updated Polish translation
2763 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2764 ----------------------------------
2767 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2768 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2769 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2772 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2773 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2774 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2775 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2776 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2777 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2778 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2779 to an unexpected application termination
2780 * New Serbian translation
2781 * Updated Romanian translation
2784 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2785 ----------------------------------
2788 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2789 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2790 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2791 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2792 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2793 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2794 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2795 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2798 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2799 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2800 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2801 * Fixed AAC resampling
2802 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2803 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2806 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2807 ----------------------------------
2810 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2811 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2812 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2813 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2814 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2817 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2818 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2819 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2820 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2821 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2824 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2825 ----------------------------------
2828 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2829 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2832 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2833 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2834 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2835 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2837 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2841 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2844 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2847 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2850 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2853 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2854 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2855 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2856 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2857 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2859 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2860 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2861 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2862 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2865 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2868 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2869 ----------------------------------
2872 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2873 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2874 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2876 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2877 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2879 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2880 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2883 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2885 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2886 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2887 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2888 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2889 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2890 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2891 two different movies
2892 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2893 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2894 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2897 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2900 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2901 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2902 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2903 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2906 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2907 ----------------------------------
2909 Various bugfixes, notably:
2910 * Windows Vista compatibility
2911 * Cropping in Direct3D
2912 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2913 * RSS filter string overflow
2915 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2917 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2918 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2921 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2922 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2925 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2928 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2931 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2934 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2935 ----------------------------------
2937 Various bugfixes, notably:
2938 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2939 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2940 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2941 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2942 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2943 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2946 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2947 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2950 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2952 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2953 * Diverse usability improvements
2954 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2955 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2956 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2959 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2960 ---------------------------------
2962 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2963 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2966 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2969 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2970 --------------------------------
2973 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2976 * Support for RTSP authentication
2977 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2978 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2979 * ATSC support for DVB input
2980 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2981 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2982 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2985 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2986 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2987 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2988 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2989 * Matroska WavPack support
2990 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2991 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2992 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2995 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2996 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2997 * Improved libcaca support
3001 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3002 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3004 * Systray support in skins
3006 * Support for Apple Remote control
3007 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3008 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3009 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3010 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3012 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3015 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3016 Windows 9x/ME users:
3017 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3018 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3019 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3020 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3021 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3023 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3024 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3033 * Updates to the libvlc API
3034 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3037 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3038 --------------------------------
3041 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3042 * Support for downloading updates
3046 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3047 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3048 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3049 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3051 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3052 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3053 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3056 * Cook (Real audio) support
3058 Playlist / Services discovery:
3059 * XSPF playlist support
3061 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3064 * New JACK audio output
3067 * New video filters:
3068 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3069 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3070 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3071 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3072 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3073 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3076 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3079 * System to inform the user and request information
3080 - HTTP authentication
3084 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3085 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3086 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3089 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3090 - Improved playlist handling
3091 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3093 - Embedded Video output
3094 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3095 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3096 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3097 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3098 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3100 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3101 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3104 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3107 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3108 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3109 * Growl "Now playing" support
3112 * Ability to log to syslog
3113 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3116 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3118 * A bit more automatic testing
3121 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3122 ---------------------------------
3125 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3126 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3129 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3130 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3133 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3136 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3137 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3143 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3146 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3147 --------------------------------
3150 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3154 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3155 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3156 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3159 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3160 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3161 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3162 * GnomeVFS input module
3163 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3164 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3167 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3168 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3169 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3172 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3173 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3179 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3180 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3183 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3184 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3185 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3188 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3190 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3191 - New extended controls panel
3192 - New bookmarks window
3193 - Fixed playlist sorting
3194 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3196 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3197 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3198 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3199 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3203 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3204 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3206 - Include macro to include other files
3210 * Should now work outside IE as well
3213 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3216 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3217 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3220 The following languages were added:
3224 * Simplified Chinese
3225 The following languages were re-added:
3229 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3230 --------------------------------
3233 * Rewrite of the playlist
3235 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3236 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3237 * Preferences improvements:
3238 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3239 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3241 * Core image manipulation support
3242 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3243 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3244 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3245 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3246 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3247 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3248 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3249 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3250 * Access filter architecture
3251 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3252 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3256 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3257 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3258 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3259 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3260 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3261 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3262 * Massive Matroska improvements
3263 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3265 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3266 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3267 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3268 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3269 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3271 Decoders / Encoders:
3272 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3273 * PNG decoder/encoder
3274 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3275 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3278 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3281 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3282 * Brand new SAP module
3283 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3284 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3285 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3286 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3287 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3288 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3292 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3295 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3296 * Image file video output (png)
3297 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3298 * Improvements to wall video filter
3299 * Support for font color and opacity
3305 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3306 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3307 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3311 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3312 - Improved preferences
3313 - Improvements to the wizard
3314 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3316 - Redesigned playlist
3317 - Improved preferences
3319 - Support for multiple actions
3322 - Support for the new playlist system
3324 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3327 * Screensaver disabling fix
3328 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3329 * Support for no-decoration windows
3332 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3333 * The OpenGL video output is back
3334 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3335 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3336 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3337 is not yet available in the new module
3338 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3341 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3350 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3353 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3356 The following languages were added:
3362 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3363 --------------------------------
3366 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3367 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3370 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3371 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3372 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3375 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3378 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3381 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3384 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3385 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3386 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3390 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3392 * Support of playlist group announcement
3395 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3396 --------------------------------
3399 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3400 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3401 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3402 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3403 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3404 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3407 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3408 (Stream your desktop)
3409 * Improved DVD support:
3410 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3411 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3412 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3413 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3414 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3415 (selection of titles/chapters).
3418 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3419 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3420 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3421 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3422 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3423 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3424 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3425 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3426 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3427 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3430 * G.726 audio support
3431 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3432 * MPEG-4 text support
3433 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3434 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3435 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3439 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3440 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3441 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3442 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3443 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3444 * DVB subtitles encoder
3445 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3446 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3448 * Text track muxing for mp4
3449 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3450 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3451 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3452 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3453 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3454 * Improved ASF muxer
3456 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3457 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3458 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3461 * New audio equalizer filter
3462 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3463 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3464 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3465 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3468 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3469 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3470 with support for effects.
3471 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3472 - New filters can be streamed.
3473 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3474 - Centralized scaling and blending
3476 - "time", to display current time
3477 - "marq", to display a marquee
3480 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3481 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3482 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3483 * A few skins2 improvements
3484 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3485 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3486 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3487 * Improved CORBA control module
3490 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3491 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3492 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3495 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3496 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3497 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3500 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3501 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3502 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3503 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3504 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3507 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3510 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3511 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3514 * Server/client network synchronization module
3515 * VBrick streams fully supported
3516 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3520 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3521 --------------------------------
3524 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3525 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3526 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3527 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3530 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3531 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3532 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3533 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3534 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3535 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3536 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3539 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3540 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3541 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3542 * Improved directory access module.
3543 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3544 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3545 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3546 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3547 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3550 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3551 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3552 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3555 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3556 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3557 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3560 * Improved session announcement system.
3561 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3562 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3563 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3564 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3565 * Improved transrater.
3566 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3567 * New configuration system.
3568 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3571 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3572 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3573 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3574 * Supports scheduling.
3575 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3576 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3579 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3580 - Ability to embed video output.
3581 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3582 - Lots of improvements.
3583 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3584 - New design and set of icons.
3585 - Ability to embed video output.
3586 - Support for hotkeys.
3587 - Support for bookmarks.
3589 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3590 - Better hotkeys handling.
3593 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3594 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3595 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3596 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3599 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3600 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3601 * Improved Windows installer.
3607 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3608 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3611 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3612 ---------------------------------
3615 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3616 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3619 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3620 --------------------------------
3623 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3624 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3627 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3628 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3629 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3630 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3633 * Internal improvments
3634 * Improved import/export
3637 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3639 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3640 small and strange formats.
3642 * New MOD audio demux.
3643 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3644 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3645 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3646 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3649 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3650 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3651 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3657 * New opengl video output plugin.
3660 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3661 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3664 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3665 --------------------------------
3668 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3669 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3670 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3671 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3672 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3673 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3674 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3675 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3678 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3683 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3684 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3685 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3686 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3687 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3688 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3689 * Better Icecast support.
3690 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3691 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3694 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3695 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3696 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3697 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3698 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3699 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3700 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3703 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3704 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3705 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3706 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3707 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3708 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3709 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3710 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3711 * Preliminary RTP support.
3712 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3717 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3718 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3720 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3721 - Improvements and help in preferences
3722 - New streaming wizard
3723 - Revised Disc Open menu
3725 - Improvements of the standard pages
3726 - Support for new commands
3727 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3730 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3731 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3734 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3735 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3736 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3737 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3738 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3739 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3740 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3741 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3742 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3745 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3747 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3748 * Support for Panther.
3749 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3750 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3753 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3754 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3755 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3756 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3757 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3758 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3759 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3760 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3763 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3764 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3765 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3768 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3771 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3772 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3773 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3774 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3777 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3778 --------------------------------
3781 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3784 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3785 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3788 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3789 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3792 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3795 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3796 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3799 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3802 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3805 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3806 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3810 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3811 --------------------------------
3814 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3815 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3819 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3820 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3821 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3823 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3824 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3827 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3830 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3833 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3834 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3838 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3839 --------------------------------
3842 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3843 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3847 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3848 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3849 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3850 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3851 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3854 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3855 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3856 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3859 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3860 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3861 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3864 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3865 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3866 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3867 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3868 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3871 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3872 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3873 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3876 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3879 * Improved build system.
3880 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3881 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3882 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3883 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3886 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3887 --------------------------------
3890 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3893 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3894 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3895 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3896 * Video 4 Linux support
3897 * CD Digital Audio support
3898 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3901 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3902 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3903 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3904 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3907 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3908 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3909 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3910 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3911 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3912 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3913 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3916 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3917 * New HTTP remote control interface
3920 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3921 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3922 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3923 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3924 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3927 * New reset option for the preferences
3928 * You can set your language in the prefences
3929 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3930 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3931 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3932 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3935 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3936 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3937 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3940 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3941 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3942 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3943 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3944 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3945 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3946 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3947 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3948 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3949 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3952 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3953 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3954 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3955 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3956 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3957 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3958 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3961 * Interface localization
3962 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3963 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3964 * New full-featured Preferences window
3967 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3968 --------------------------------
3971 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3972 * support for skins at the interface level
3973 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3974 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3975 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3976 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3977 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3980 * fixed HTTP redirects
3981 * support for opening an entire directory
3982 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3983 * new video4linux access plug-in
3984 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3987 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3988 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3989 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3992 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3993 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3994 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3995 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3996 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3997 * new codec for raw I420 video
3998 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4001 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4002 (although it still misses some important features)
4003 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4006 * new HTTP output support
4007 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4008 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4011 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4014 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4017 * reorderable playlist
4018 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4019 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4020 * support for mono audio output devices
4021 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4022 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4023 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4024 * the messages window remembers more lines
4025 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4026 * http and ogg stream output options
4027 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4030 * new skinnable interface
4031 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4033 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4034 * support for FLAC audio format
4035 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4037 * network tab in the interface
4038 * "apply" handling in preferences
4041 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4042 ---------------------------------
4045 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4046 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4047 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4048 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4050 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4051 * DTS S/PDIF support
4054 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4055 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4056 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4057 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4060 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4061 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4064 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4067 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4070 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4072 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4073 * rc interface is now fully useable
4074 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4077 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4078 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4079 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4080 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4081 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4083 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4084 * support for mouse gestures
4085 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4088 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4089 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4092 * improved ID3 tag detection
4093 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4094 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4095 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4097 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4100 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4101 ---------------------------------
4104 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4105 English was set as the preferred language
4108 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4109 --------------------------------
4112 * new mouse gesture interface
4113 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4117 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4118 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4119 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4122 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4123 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4127 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4130 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4131 without the user consent
4134 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4136 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4137 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4138 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4141 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4142 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4143 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4144 * playlist enhancements
4145 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4146 * new step forward/step backward commands
4147 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4148 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4149 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4152 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4153 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4154 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4157 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4158 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4161 * native video output is working again
4162 * only commandline interface support
4163 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4166 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4167 --------------------------------
4170 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4171 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4172 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4173 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4174 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4175 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4176 and A/52 streams are supported)
4177 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4182 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4183 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4184 * VCD entry points support
4185 * VCD image file support
4188 * support for *.asf format
4189 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4190 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4191 * support for ogg encapsulation
4192 * support for raw DV format
4193 * support for *.wav format
4194 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4197 Stream discovery & playlists:
4198 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4199 * support for .m3u file format
4200 * support for .asx file format
4201 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4204 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4205 (only available with the .avi demux)
4206 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4207 * support for raw PCM data
4208 * support for Cinepak video codec
4209 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4210 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4211 * support for Xvid codec
4212 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4213 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4214 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4216 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4218 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4221 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4224 * new WxWindows interface
4225 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4226 device and the channels configuration
4227 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4228 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4229 format that VLC can play
4230 * new swedish translation
4231 * enhancements of the playlist window
4232 * new messages window to see debug info
4233 * fixed a few crashes
4236 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4237 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4238 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4239 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working