1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 3rd party libraries (contrib):
5 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
8 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
11 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
14 * new remapping channel filter
15 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
16 * new VSXu visualization plugin
19 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
22 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
25 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
26 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
29 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
30 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
31 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
34 * added a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
37 * portaudio audio output
40 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
41 --------------------------------
44 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
45 * fix the samba module compilation
46 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
47 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
48 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
49 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
52 * Support for MXPEG files
53 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
54 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
57 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
58 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
59 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
62 * Fix ogm header creation
65 * limit spatializer filter distortions
66 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
69 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
70 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
71 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
72 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
75 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
78 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
79 * allow to hide the sidebar
80 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
81 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
82 * noticebly faster launch time
83 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
84 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
85 * improve track synchronization panel
86 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
87 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
90 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
91 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
92 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
93 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
96 * fix for menus display
97 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
98 * documentation update
101 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
102 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
105 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
106 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
107 * Update Jamendo selections
111 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
112 * fix a crash on VLM close
115 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
116 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
117 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201)
118 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202)
121 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
124 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
125 ---------------------------------
128 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
129 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
130 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
131 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
132 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
133 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
134 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
135 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
136 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
137 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
138 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
139 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
140 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
141 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
142 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
143 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
144 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
145 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
146 --http-crl (optional CRL).
147 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
148 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
149 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
150 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
151 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
152 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
153 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
155 Important changes for packagers:
156 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
157 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
158 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
159 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
160 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
161 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
162 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
163 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
164 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
165 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
168 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
169 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
170 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
171 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
172 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
173 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
174 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
177 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
178 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
179 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
180 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
181 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
182 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
183 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
184 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
185 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
186 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
187 * PulseAudio audio input support
188 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
189 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
190 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
191 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
192 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
193 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
194 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
195 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
198 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
199 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
200 are notably concerned.
201 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
202 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
203 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
204 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
205 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
206 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
207 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
208 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
209 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
210 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
211 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
212 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
213 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
214 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
215 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
218 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
219 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
220 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
221 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
222 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
223 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
224 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
225 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
226 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
227 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
228 * Improved support of tracker files
229 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
232 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
233 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
234 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
235 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
236 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
237 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
238 and important cleanups and optimisations
239 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
240 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
241 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
242 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
243 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
244 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
245 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
246 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
247 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
248 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
249 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
250 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
251 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
252 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
253 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
254 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
255 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
256 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
257 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
258 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
259 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
262 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
263 * New video output for iOS platform
264 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
265 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
266 * Various vmem improvements
267 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
268 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
269 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
270 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
271 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
272 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
274 Audio Output and Filters:
275 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
276 * New audio output in memory (amem)
277 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
278 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
279 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
280 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
281 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
282 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
283 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
284 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
287 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
288 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
289 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
290 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
291 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
292 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
293 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
294 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
295 * New anti-flickering filter
296 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
297 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
298 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
299 blackbox and customizable shadow.
300 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
301 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
302 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
305 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
306 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
307 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
308 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
309 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
310 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
311 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
312 * Major rework of VoD support
313 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
314 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
315 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
316 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
317 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
318 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
319 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
320 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
321 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
322 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
325 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
326 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
329 * New capabilities for libVLC:
330 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
331 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
332 list of available audio and video filters
333 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
334 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
335 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
338 * asademux, subsass: use libass
339 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
340 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
342 * upnp: use upnp_intel
343 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
344 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
345 * removal of the noise filter
346 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
347 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
348 removed in Growl's next release, too.
349 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
352 * Update of translations for most languages.
353 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
356 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
357 ----------------------------------
360 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
361 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
364 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
365 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
368 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
369 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
370 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
373 * Camtasia decoding fix.
376 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
377 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
380 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
383 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
384 ----------------------------------
387 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
388 including support for OS X Lion
389 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
390 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
393 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
396 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
397 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
398 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
401 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
404 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
405 ----------------------------------
408 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
409 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
412 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
413 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
414 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
415 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
416 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
418 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
419 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
420 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
422 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
423 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
426 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
429 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
432 * Fix quitting on Linux
433 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
437 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
440 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
443 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
444 ---------------------------------
446 Windows and Mac OS X:
447 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
450 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
451 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
454 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
457 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
460 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
462 Miscellaneous fixes in:
463 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
465 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
466 * RTP output and XML export
467 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
471 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
472 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
473 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
474 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
477 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
478 --------------------------------
480 Windows and Mac OS X:
481 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
484 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
487 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
488 * Improve Apple Remote handling
489 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
490 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
491 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
492 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
495 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
496 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
500 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
501 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
502 * New Luganda Translation
505 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
506 --------------------------------
509 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
512 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
513 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
514 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
515 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
518 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
520 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
521 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
522 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
523 * mp4 demuxer improvements
524 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
525 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
526 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
527 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
529 Miscellaneous fixes in:
530 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
531 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
532 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
533 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
534 * Configure and build system improvements
535 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
538 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
539 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
540 * New icelandic translation
543 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
544 --------------------------------
547 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
551 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
552 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
553 and stability reasons
556 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
560 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
563 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
564 ----------------------------------
567 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
570 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
571 ---------------------------------
574 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
575 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
576 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
577 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
580 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
583 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
584 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
585 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
586 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
589 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
590 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
591 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
593 Subtitles and renderer:
594 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
595 * Mark more freetype options as safe
596 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
597 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
598 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
601 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
602 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
603 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
604 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
607 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
608 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
611 * KDE device solid actions
613 * Transcode integer overflow
614 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
615 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
618 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
619 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
620 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
623 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
624 ----------------------------------
627 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
631 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
634 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
637 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
638 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
639 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
640 * Taglib thread-safety fix
643 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
647 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
650 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
653 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
654 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
656 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
660 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
661 * Miscellaneous fixes
664 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
665 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
667 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
668 * New Asturian translation
671 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
672 ----------------------------------
675 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
677 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
680 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
683 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
684 * Various fixes for Windows
687 * New Armenian translation
688 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
689 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
692 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
693 --------------------------------
696 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
698 * Fix folders opening from the interface
701 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
702 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
705 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
706 --------------------------------
709 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
710 * fix for podcasts parsing
711 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
714 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
715 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
718 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
719 * fix m3u playlists exports
722 * fix video autoresize behaviour
725 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
728 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
731 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
734 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
737 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
738 --------------------------------
741 * Avformat fps displaying fix
742 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
745 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
746 of mono streams, especially on Windows
749 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
750 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
751 * fix console output encoding
753 Interface and extensions:
754 * Youtube and other scripts updates
755 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
758 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
759 --------------------------------
762 * New capabilities for libVLC:
763 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
764 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
765 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
766 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
767 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
768 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
769 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
770 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
771 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
772 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
773 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
774 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
775 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
776 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
777 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
781 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
782 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
783 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
784 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
785 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
788 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
791 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
792 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
793 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
797 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
800 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
801 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
802 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
805 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
806 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
807 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
808 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
811 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
812 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
815 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
816 --------------------------------
818 Important changes for users:
819 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
820 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
822 Important changes for packagers:
823 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
824 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
825 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
826 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
827 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
829 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
831 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
832 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
833 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
834 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
835 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
838 * Support for the sftp protocol
839 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
840 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
841 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
842 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
843 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
846 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
847 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
848 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
850 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
851 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
852 * Invmem module improvements
853 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
854 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
855 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
856 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
857 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
858 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
859 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
860 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
861 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
862 * Support for VP8 codec
863 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
866 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
867 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
868 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
869 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
870 * Various EGP improvements
871 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
872 * Metadata and cover art improvements
875 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
876 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
877 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
878 * Podcast images are now displayed
881 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
882 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
883 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
884 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
885 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
886 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
887 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
888 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
889 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
890 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
891 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
894 * New content extensions lua framework
897 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
898 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
899 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
900 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
901 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
902 * NEON assembly audio converter module
903 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
906 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
907 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
908 * Service discovery based on libudev
909 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
912 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
913 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
914 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
915 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
916 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
917 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
918 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
921 * New smem module, streaming to memory
922 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
923 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
926 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
928 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
929 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
932 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
935 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
936 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
937 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
938 by Andy Matuschak et al.
939 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
940 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
941 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
944 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
945 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
948 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
949 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
950 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
954 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
955 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
956 * Improved Solaris port
959 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
960 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
963 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
964 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
965 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
966 * transrate: broken since too long
967 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
968 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
969 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
970 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
971 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
972 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
973 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
974 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
975 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
976 * cddax: use cdda instead.
977 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
978 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
979 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
980 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
983 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
984 --------------------------------
987 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
989 Decoders/Packetizers:
990 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
993 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
994 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
995 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
996 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
997 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1000 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1001 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1004 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1005 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1008 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1009 and Walloon translations updated
1010 * Sinhala translation started
1013 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1014 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1017 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1018 --------------------------------
1021 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1022 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1025 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1028 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1029 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1032 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1033 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1034 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1035 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1038 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1039 --------------------------------
1042 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1043 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1046 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1047 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1050 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1051 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1054 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1057 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1058 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1061 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1062 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1065 * New Walloon translation
1066 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1069 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1070 --------------------------------
1073 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1074 regressions in most popular drivers
1075 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1078 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1079 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1080 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1083 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1084 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1087 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1088 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1089 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1090 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1091 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1094 * New udev module for linux
1097 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1100 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1103 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1104 --------------------------------
1107 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1108 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1109 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1112 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1113 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1116 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1117 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1120 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1123 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1124 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1125 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1126 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1129 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1130 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1131 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1132 - no support for Goom and SDL
1133 - limited text rendering support
1134 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1137 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1138 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1139 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1140 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1141 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1142 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1143 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1144 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1145 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1149 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1152 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1155 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1156 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1157 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1158 Arabic and French translation updates
1161 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1162 --------------------------------
1165 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1166 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1167 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1168 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1169 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1170 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1173 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1174 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1175 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1178 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1179 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1180 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1183 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1186 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1187 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1190 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1191 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1192 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1193 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1194 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1195 * Fix various crashes
1198 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1200 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1204 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1205 ---------------------------------
1209 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1210 See 'Access:' for more info.
1211 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1214 * Instantaneous pausing
1215 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1216 * Finer speed control
1217 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1218 * Timeshift for most medias
1219 * RTSP trickplay support
1220 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1223 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1224 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1225 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1226 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1227 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1228 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1229 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1230 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1231 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1232 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1235 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1236 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1237 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1238 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1239 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1240 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1241 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1244 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1245 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1248 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1249 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1250 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1251 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1252 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1253 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1254 * DVB scanning on linux
1255 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1256 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1257 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1258 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1259 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1260 * MTP device access on Unix
1261 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1262 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1265 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1266 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1267 Windows and Mac OS X.
1270 * Export the playlist in HTML
1271 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1272 * Better metadata handling and reading
1274 Linux/Windows interface:
1275 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1276 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1277 * Recently played items list
1278 * Interface toolbar customizations
1279 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1280 - More menus actions
1281 - Finer speed slider
1282 - Improvements on many dialogs
1283 - New dialog for plugins listing
1284 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1285 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1286 * Better integration in GTK environments
1289 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1290 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1291 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1292 * Additional usability improvements
1295 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1296 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1297 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1298 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1299 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1302 * New Maemo port with:
1303 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1304 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1307 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1310 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1311 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1312 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1313 * Support for latest iSight models
1316 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1317 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1320 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1321 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1322 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1323 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1324 The old image video output has been removed.
1325 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1326 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1329 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1337 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1338 --------------------------------------
1344 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1345 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1346 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1347 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1348 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1349 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1350 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1352 Various fixes to the following modules:
1355 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1356 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1357 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1359 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1364 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1365 ---------------------------------
1368 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1369 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1372 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1373 ---------------------------------
1376 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1379 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1382 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1383 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1384 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1385 main controller window.
1386 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1389 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1394 * Updates of other localizations
1397 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1398 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1399 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1400 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1401 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1404 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1405 ---------------------------------
1408 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1410 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1413 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1414 --------------------------------
1419 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1420 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1423 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1424 --------------------------------
1426 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1427 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1430 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1433 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1434 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1437 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1438 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1441 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1442 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1443 * Various fixed in playlist
1446 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1449 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1452 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1453 ------------------------------------
1455 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1456 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1459 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1460 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1461 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1464 * Stability fix for the video output.
1467 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1468 --------------------------------
1471 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1472 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1473 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1474 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1475 * Fixed update system bugs
1476 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1479 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1480 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1481 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1482 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1483 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1484 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1485 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1486 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1487 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1488 modern Mac OS X versions
1491 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1492 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1494 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1495 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1498 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1499 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1500 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1501 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1502 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1503 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1506 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1507 --------------------------------
1509 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1510 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1511 * Multiple bugfixes.
1514 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1515 --------------------------------
1517 * Multiple bug fixes.
1520 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1521 ---------------------------------
1525 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1526 recent to work correctly
1527 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1528 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1529 edit the ".hosts" file.
1530 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1531 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1532 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1533 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1534 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1535 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1536 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1537 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1538 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1539 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1540 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1541 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1542 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1543 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1544 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1545 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1546 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1547 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1548 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1549 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1550 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1551 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1552 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1553 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1554 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1555 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1556 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1557 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1558 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1559 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1560 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1561 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1562 and postproc modules.
1563 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1564 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1565 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1566 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1568 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1569 filter. For example:
1570 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1571 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1573 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1574 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1580 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1582 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1583 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1586 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1587 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1589 * Shoutcast TV listings
1590 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1592 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1593 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1595 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1598 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1599 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1600 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1601 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1602 * JACK audio input support
1603 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1604 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1605 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1606 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1607 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1608 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1609 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1610 (available as a separate download).
1611 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1612 * RTMP input support
1613 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1614 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1615 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1617 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1618 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1621 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1622 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1623 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1624 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1626 * APEv1/2 tags support
1627 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1628 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1630 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1631 * TiVo Series 2 support
1632 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1637 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1638 * Flash Screen Video support
1639 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1640 * DosBox Capture support
1641 * Karl Morton's Video support
1642 * limited atrac3 support
1644 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1645 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1646 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1647 * H.264 PAFF support
1648 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1649 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1650 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1651 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1652 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1655 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1656 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1657 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1658 * AQTitle subtitles support
1659 * MKV USF subtitles support
1660 * HTML-based subtitles support
1661 * MPSub subtitles support
1662 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1663 * MPL2 subtitles support
1664 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1665 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1666 * Realtext subtitle support
1667 * DKS subtitle support
1668 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1669 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1672 * Flash Screen Video support
1673 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1675 Video outputs and filters:
1676 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1677 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1678 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1679 * New puzzle video output filter
1680 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1681 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1683 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1684 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1685 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1686 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1687 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1688 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1689 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1690 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1691 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1692 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1693 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1694 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1695 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1696 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1698 Audio outputs and filters:
1699 * Replay gain support
1700 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1701 new scaletempo audio filter)
1702 * New spatializer audio filter
1703 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1706 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1707 * New RTP payload formats:
1708 * Speex voice audio codec
1709 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1710 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1711 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1712 * DCCP transport for RTP
1713 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1718 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1719 end-user suitable way.
1720 * Improved user interaction
1721 * Improved mouse gestures
1722 * Vastly improved Update checker
1723 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1725 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1726 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1728 * Improved video output features
1729 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1730 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1731 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1732 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1733 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1735 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1736 if libncursesw is available.
1737 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1738 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1739 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1741 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1742 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1743 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1744 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1745 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1746 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1747 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1748 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1751 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1752 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1753 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1756 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1757 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1758 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1759 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1760 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1761 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1764 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1765 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1775 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1776 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1777 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1780 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1781 ----------------------------------
1784 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1787 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1788 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1789 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1790 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1791 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1792 * Updated Polish translation
1795 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1796 ----------------------------------
1799 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1800 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1801 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1804 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1805 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1806 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1807 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1808 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1809 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1810 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1811 to an unexpected application termination
1812 * New Serbian translation
1813 * Updated Romanian translation
1816 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1817 ----------------------------------
1820 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1821 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1822 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1823 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1824 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1825 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1826 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1827 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1830 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1831 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1832 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1833 * Fixed AAC resampling
1834 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1835 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1838 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1839 ----------------------------------
1842 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1843 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1844 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1845 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1846 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1849 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1850 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1851 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1852 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1853 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1856 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1857 ----------------------------------
1860 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1861 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1864 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1865 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1866 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1867 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1869 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1873 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1876 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1879 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1882 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1885 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1886 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1887 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1888 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1889 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1891 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1892 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1893 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1894 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1897 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1900 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1901 ----------------------------------
1904 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1905 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1906 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1908 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1909 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1911 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1912 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1915 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1917 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1918 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1919 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1920 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1921 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1922 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1923 two different movies
1924 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1925 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1926 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1929 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1932 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1933 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1934 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1935 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1938 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1939 ----------------------------------
1941 Various bugfixes, notably:
1942 * Windows Vista compatibility
1943 * Cropping in Direct3D
1944 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1945 * RSS filter string overflow
1947 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1949 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1950 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1953 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1954 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1957 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1960 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1963 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1966 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1967 ----------------------------------
1969 Various bugfixes, notably:
1970 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1971 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1972 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1973 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1974 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1975 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1978 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1979 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1982 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1984 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1985 * Diverse usability improvements
1986 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1987 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1988 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1991 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1992 ---------------------------------
1994 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1995 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1998 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2001 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2002 --------------------------------
2005 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2008 * Support for RTSP authentication
2009 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2010 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2011 * ATSC support for DVB input
2012 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2013 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2014 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2017 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2018 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2019 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2020 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2021 * Matroska WavPack support
2022 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2023 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2024 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2027 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2028 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2029 * Improved libcaca support
2033 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2034 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2036 * Systray support in skins
2038 * Support for Apple Remote control
2039 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2040 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2041 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2042 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2044 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2047 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2048 Windows 9x/ME users:
2049 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2050 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2051 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2052 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2053 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2055 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2056 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2065 * Updates to the libvlc API
2066 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2069 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2070 --------------------------------
2073 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2074 * Support for downloading updates
2078 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2079 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2080 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2081 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2083 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2084 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2085 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2088 * Cook (Real audio) support
2090 Playlist / Services discovery:
2091 * XSPF playlist support
2093 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2096 * New JACK audio output
2099 * New video filters:
2100 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2101 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2102 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2103 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2104 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2105 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2108 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2111 * System to inform the user and request information
2112 - HTTP authentication
2116 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2117 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2118 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2121 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2122 - Improved playlist handling
2123 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2125 - Embedded Video output
2126 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2127 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2128 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2129 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2130 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2132 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2133 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2136 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2139 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2140 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2141 * Growl "Now playing" support
2144 * Ability to log to syslog
2145 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2148 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2150 * A bit more automatic testing
2153 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2154 ---------------------------------
2157 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2158 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2161 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2162 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2165 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2168 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2169 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2175 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2178 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2179 --------------------------------
2182 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2186 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2187 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2188 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2191 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2192 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2193 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2194 * GnomeVFS input module
2195 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2196 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2199 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2200 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2201 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2204 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2205 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2211 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2212 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2215 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2216 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2217 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2220 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2222 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2223 - New extended controls panel
2224 - New bookmarks window
2225 - Fixed playlist sorting
2226 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2228 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2229 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2230 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2231 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2235 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2236 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2238 - Include macro to include other files
2242 * Should now work outside IE as well
2245 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2248 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2249 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2252 The following languages were added:
2256 * Simplified Chinese
2257 The following languages were re-added:
2261 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2262 --------------------------------
2265 * Rewrite of the playlist
2267 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2268 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2269 * Preferences improvements:
2270 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2271 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2273 * Core image manipulation support
2274 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2275 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2276 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2277 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2278 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2279 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2280 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2281 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2282 * Access filter architecture
2283 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2284 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2288 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2289 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2290 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2291 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2292 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2293 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2294 * Massive Matroska improvements
2295 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2297 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2298 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2299 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2300 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2301 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2303 Decoders / Encoders:
2304 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2305 * PNG decoder/encoder
2306 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2307 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2310 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2313 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2314 * Brand new SAP module
2315 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2316 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2317 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2318 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2319 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2320 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2324 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2327 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2328 * Image file video output (png)
2329 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2330 * Improvements to wall video filter
2331 * Support for font color and opacity
2337 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2338 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2339 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2343 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2344 - Improved preferences
2345 - Improvements to the wizard
2346 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2348 - Redesigned playlist
2349 - Improved preferences
2351 - Support for multiple actions
2354 - Support for the new playlist system
2356 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2359 * Screensaver disabling fix
2360 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2361 * Support for no-decoration windows
2364 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2365 * The OpenGL video output is back
2366 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2367 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2368 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2369 is not yet available in the new module
2370 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2373 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2382 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2385 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2388 The following languages were added:
2394 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2395 --------------------------------
2398 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2399 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2402 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2403 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2404 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2407 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2410 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2413 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2416 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2417 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2418 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2422 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2424 * Support of playlist group announcement
2427 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2428 --------------------------------
2431 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2432 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2433 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2434 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2435 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2436 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2439 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2440 (Stream your desktop)
2441 * Improved DVD support:
2442 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2443 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2444 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2445 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2446 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2447 (selection of titles/chapters).
2450 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2451 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2452 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2453 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2454 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2455 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2456 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2457 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2458 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2459 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2462 * G.726 audio support
2463 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2464 * MPEG-4 text support
2465 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2466 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2467 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2471 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2472 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2473 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2474 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2475 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2476 * DVB subtitles encoder
2477 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2478 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2480 * Text track muxing for mp4
2481 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2482 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2483 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2484 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2485 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2486 * Improved ASF muxer
2488 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2489 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2490 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2493 * New audio equalizer filter
2494 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2495 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2496 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2497 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2500 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2501 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2502 with support for effects.
2503 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2504 - New filters can be streamed.
2505 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2506 - Centralized scaling and blending
2508 - "time", to display current time
2509 - "marq", to display a marquee
2512 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2513 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2514 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2515 * A few skins2 improvements
2516 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2517 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2518 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2519 * Improved CORBA control module
2522 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2523 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2524 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2527 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2528 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2529 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2532 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2533 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2534 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2535 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2536 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2539 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2542 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2543 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2546 * Server/client network synchronization module
2547 * VBrick streams fully supported
2548 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2552 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2553 --------------------------------
2556 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2557 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2558 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2559 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2562 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2563 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2564 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2565 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2566 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2567 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2568 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2571 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2572 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2573 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2574 * Improved directory access module.
2575 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2576 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2577 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2578 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2579 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2582 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2583 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2584 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2587 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2588 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2589 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2592 * Improved session announcement system.
2593 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2594 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2595 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2596 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2597 * Improved transrater.
2598 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2599 * New configuration system.
2600 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2603 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2604 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2605 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2606 * Supports scheduling.
2607 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2608 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2611 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2612 - Ability to embed video output.
2613 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2614 - Lots of improvements.
2615 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2616 - New design and set of icons.
2617 - Ability to embed video output.
2618 - Support for hotkeys.
2619 - Support for bookmarks.
2621 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2622 - Better hotkeys handling.
2625 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2626 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2627 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2628 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2631 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2632 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2633 * Improved Windows installer.
2639 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2640 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2643 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2644 ---------------------------------
2647 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2648 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2651 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2652 --------------------------------
2655 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2656 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2659 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2660 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2661 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2662 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2665 * Internal improvments
2666 * Improved import/export
2669 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2671 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2672 small and strange formats.
2674 * New MOD audio demux.
2675 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2676 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2677 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2678 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2681 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2682 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2683 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2689 * New opengl video output plugin.
2692 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2693 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2696 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2697 --------------------------------
2700 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2701 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2702 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2703 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2704 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2705 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2706 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2707 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2710 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2715 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2716 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2717 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2718 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2719 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2720 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2721 * Better Icecast support.
2722 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2723 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2726 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2727 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2728 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2729 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2730 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2731 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2732 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2735 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2736 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2737 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2738 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2739 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2740 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2741 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2742 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2743 * Preliminary RTP support.
2744 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2749 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2750 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2752 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2753 - Improvements and help in preferences
2754 - New streaming wizard
2755 - Revised Disc Open menu
2757 - Improvements of the standard pages
2758 - Support for new commands
2759 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2762 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2763 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2766 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2767 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2768 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2769 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2770 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2771 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2772 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2773 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2774 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2777 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2779 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2780 * Support for Panther.
2781 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2782 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2785 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2786 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2787 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2788 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2789 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2790 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2791 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2792 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2795 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2796 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2797 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2800 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2803 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2804 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2805 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2806 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2809 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2810 --------------------------------
2813 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2816 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2817 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2820 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2821 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2824 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2827 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2828 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2831 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2834 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2837 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2838 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2842 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2843 --------------------------------
2846 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2847 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2851 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2852 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2853 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2855 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2856 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2859 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2862 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2865 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2866 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2870 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2871 --------------------------------
2874 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2875 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2879 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2880 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2881 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2882 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2883 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2886 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2887 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2888 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2891 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2892 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2893 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2896 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2897 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2898 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2899 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2900 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2903 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2904 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2905 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2908 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2911 * Improved build system.
2912 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2913 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2914 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2915 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2918 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2919 --------------------------------
2922 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2925 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2926 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2927 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2928 * Video 4 Linux support
2929 * CD Digital Audio support
2930 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2933 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2934 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2935 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2936 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2939 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2940 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2941 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2942 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2943 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2944 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2945 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2948 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2949 * New HTTP remote control interface
2952 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2953 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2954 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2955 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2956 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2959 * New reset option for the preferences
2960 * You can set your language in the prefences
2961 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2962 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2963 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2964 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2967 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2968 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2969 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2972 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2973 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2974 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2975 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2976 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2977 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2978 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2979 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2980 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2981 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2984 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2985 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2986 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2987 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2988 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2989 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2990 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2993 * Interface localization
2994 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2995 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2996 * New full-featured Preferences window
2999 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3000 --------------------------------
3003 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3004 * support for skins at the interface level
3005 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3006 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3007 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3008 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3009 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3012 * fixed HTTP redirects
3013 * support for opening an entire directory
3014 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3015 * new video4linux access plug-in
3016 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3019 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3020 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3021 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3024 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3025 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3026 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3027 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3028 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3029 * new codec for raw I420 video
3030 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3033 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3034 (although it still misses some important features)
3035 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3038 * new HTTP output support
3039 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3040 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3043 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3046 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3049 * reorderable playlist
3050 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3051 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3052 * support for mono audio output devices
3053 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3054 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3055 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3056 * the messages window remembers more lines
3057 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3058 * http and ogg stream output options
3059 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3062 * new skinnable interface
3063 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3065 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3066 * support for FLAC audio format
3067 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3069 * network tab in the interface
3070 * "apply" handling in preferences
3073 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3074 ---------------------------------
3077 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3078 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3079 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3080 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3082 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3083 * DTS S/PDIF support
3086 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3087 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3088 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3089 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3092 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3093 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3096 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3099 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3102 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3104 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3105 * rc interface is now fully useable
3106 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3109 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3110 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3111 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3112 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3113 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3115 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3116 * support for mouse gestures
3117 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3120 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3121 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3124 * improved ID3 tag detection
3125 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3126 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3127 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3129 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3132 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3133 ---------------------------------
3136 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3137 English was set as the preferred language
3140 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3141 --------------------------------
3144 * new mouse gesture interface
3145 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3149 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3150 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3151 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3154 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3155 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3159 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3162 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3163 without the user consent
3166 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3168 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3169 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3170 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3173 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3174 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3175 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3176 * playlist enhancements
3177 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3178 * new step forward/step backward commands
3179 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3180 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3181 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3184 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3185 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3186 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3189 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3190 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3193 * native video output is working again
3194 * only commandline interface support
3195 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3198 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3199 --------------------------------
3202 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3203 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3204 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3205 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3206 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3207 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3208 and A/52 streams are supported)
3209 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3214 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3215 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3216 * VCD entry points support
3217 * VCD image file support
3220 * support for *.asf format
3221 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3222 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3223 * support for ogg encapsulation
3224 * support for raw DV format
3225 * support for *.wav format
3226 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3229 Stream discovery & playlists:
3230 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3231 * support for .m3u file format
3232 * support for .asx file format
3233 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3236 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3237 (only available with the .avi demux)
3238 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3239 * support for raw PCM data
3240 * support for Cinepak video codec
3241 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3242 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3243 * support for Xvid codec
3244 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3245 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3246 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3248 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3250 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3253 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3256 * new WxWindows interface
3257 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3258 device and the channels configuration
3259 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3260 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3261 format that VLC can play
3262 * new swedish translation
3263 * enhancements of the playlist window
3264 * new messages window to see debug info
3265 * fixed a few crashes
3268 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3269 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3270 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3271 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working