3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * On Linux, localization will be disabled if you have glibc 2.6 or 2.7 due
9 to a major bug in libintl with these glibc versions.
10 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
11 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
12 edit the ".hosts" file.
13 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
14 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
15 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
16 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
17 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
18 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
19 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
20 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
21 interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
22 It will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version.
23 If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
24 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
25 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
26 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
27 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
28 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
29 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
30 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed:
31 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
32 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
33 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
34 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
35 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
36 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
37 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
38 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
39 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
45 * Vastly improved playlist support:
46 * Media library support
48 * Shoutcast TV listings
49 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
51 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
52 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
53 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
54 share/lua/meta/README.txt
57 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
58 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
59 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
60 * JACK audio input support
61 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
62 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
63 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
64 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
65 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
67 * APEv1/2 tags support
68 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
69 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
71 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
72 * TiVo Series 2 support
73 * v4l2 access module support
74 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
75 * CD+G karaoke Files support
77 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X using OpenGL
79 * Experimental EyeTV access module (Mac OS X only)
80 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
81 (available as a separate download).
84 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
85 * MKV USF subtitles support
86 * HTML-based subtitles support
87 * Flash Screen Video support
88 * CamStudio Screen Video support
89 * DosBox Capture support
90 * Karl Morton's Video support
91 * limited atrac3 support
92 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
93 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
94 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
95 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
97 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
98 * NellyMoser ASAO support
99 * APE (Monkey audio) support
100 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support
103 * Flash Screen Video support
104 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
106 Video output and filters:
107 * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
108 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
109 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
110 * New puzzle video output filter
111 * Re-written motion detection video filter
112 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
114 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
115 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
116 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
117 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
118 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
119 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
120 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
121 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
122 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
123 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
124 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
125 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
127 Audio output and filters
128 * Replay gain support
129 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
130 * New spatializer audio filter
131 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
134 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
135 * New RTP payload formats:
136 * Speex voice audio codec
137 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
138 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
139 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
140 * DCCP transport for RTP
141 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
145 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
147 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
148 end-user suitable way.
149 * Improved user interaction
150 * Improved mouse gestures
151 * Fastly improved Update checker
152 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
154 * Improved video output features
155 * Access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
156 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
157 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
158 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
160 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
161 if libncursesw is available.
162 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
163 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
165 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
166 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
167 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
168 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
169 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
170 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
171 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
172 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
175 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
176 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
177 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
180 * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
181 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
182 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
183 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
184 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 was discontinued.
187 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
188 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
196 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
197 ----------------------------------
200 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
201 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
202 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489)
203 * Fixed cinepak integer overflow
206 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
207 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
208 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
209 * Close MMS access on network timeout
210 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
213 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
214 ----------------------------------
217 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
218 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
221 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
222 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
223 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
224 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
226 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
230 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
233 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
236 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
239 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
242 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
243 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
244 encoding on multi-cpu systems
245 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
246 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
248 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
249 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
250 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
251 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
254 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
257 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
258 ----------------------------------
261 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
262 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
263 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
265 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
266 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
268 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
269 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
272 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
274 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
275 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
276 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
277 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
278 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
279 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
281 * Support for current Ogg file formats
282 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
283 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
286 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
289 * The automatic updating facility was removed
290 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
291 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
292 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
295 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
296 ----------------------------------
298 Various bugfixes, notably:
299 * Windows Vista compatibility
300 * Cropping in Direct3D
301 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
302 * RSS filter string overflow
304 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
306 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
307 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
310 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
311 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
314 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
317 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
320 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
323 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
324 ----------------------------------
326 Various bugfixes, notably:
327 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
328 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
329 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
330 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
331 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
332 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
335 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
336 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
339 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
341 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
342 * Diverse usability improvements
343 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
344 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
345 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
348 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
349 ---------------------------------
352 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
355 * Fullscreen controller improvements
358 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
359 --------------------------------
362 * Shoutcast TV listings support
365 * Support for RTSP authentication
366 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
367 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
368 * ATSC support for DVB input
369 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
370 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
371 * Improved support for Flash Video files
374 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
375 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
376 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
377 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
378 * Matroska WavPack support
379 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
380 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
381 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
384 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
385 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
386 * Improved libcaca support
390 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
391 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
393 * Systray support in skins
395 * Support for Apple Remote control
396 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
397 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
398 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
399 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
401 * Notifications using notification-daemon
404 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
406 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
407 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
408 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
409 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
410 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
412 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
413 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
422 * Updates to the libvlc API
423 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
426 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
427 --------------------------------
430 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
431 * Support for downloading updates
435 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
436 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
437 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
438 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
440 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
441 * Improved subtitles encoding support
442 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
445 * Cook (Real audio) support
447 Playlist / Services discovery:
448 * XSPF playlist support
450 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
453 * New JACK audio output
457 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
458 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
459 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
460 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
461 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
462 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
465 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
468 * System to inform the user and request information
469 - HTTP authentication
473 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
474 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
475 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
478 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
479 - Improved playlist handling
480 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
482 - Embedded Video output
483 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
484 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
485 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
486 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
487 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
489 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
490 - A bunch of new RPN functions
493 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
496 * Mac-Intel compatibility
497 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
498 * Growl "Now playing" support
501 * Ability to log to syslog
502 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
505 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
507 * A bit more automatic testing
510 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
511 ---------------------------------
514 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
515 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
518 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
519 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
522 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
525 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
526 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
532 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
535 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
536 --------------------------------
539 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
543 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
544 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
545 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
548 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
549 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
550 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
551 * GnomeVFS input module
552 * Support for RTP packet reordering
553 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
556 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
557 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
558 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
561 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
562 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
568 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
569 Mixer and Dolby Surround
572 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
573 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
574 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
577 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
579 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
580 - New extended controls panel
581 - New bookmarks window
582 - Fixed playlist sorting
583 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
585 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
586 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
587 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
588 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
592 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
593 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
595 - Include macro to include other files
599 * Should now work outside IE as well
602 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
605 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
606 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
609 The following languages were added:
614 The following languages were re-added:
618 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
619 --------------------------------
622 * Rewrite of the playlist
624 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
625 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
626 * Preferences improvements:
627 - New organization, designed to improve usability
628 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
630 * Core image manipulation support
631 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
632 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
633 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
634 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
635 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
636 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
637 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
638 now separated by ':' instead of ','
639 * Access filter architecture
640 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
641 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
645 * Support for SOCKS proxy
646 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
647 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
648 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
649 * Better support for Kasenna streams
650 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
651 * Massive Matroska improvements
652 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
654 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
655 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
656 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
657 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
658 * Support for FTP over IPv6
661 * Dirac decoder and encoder
662 * PNG decoder/encoder
663 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
664 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
667 * New Record and Timeshift filters
670 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
671 * Brand new SAP module
672 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
673 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
674 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
675 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
676 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
677 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
681 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
684 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
685 * Image file video output (png)
686 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
687 * Improvements to wall video filter
688 * Support for font color and opacity
694 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
695 - Seeking support in VoD streams
696 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
700 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
701 - Improved preferences
702 - Improvements to the wizard
703 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
705 - Redesigned playlist
706 - Improved preferences
708 - Support for multiple actions
711 - Support for the new playlist system
713 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
716 * Screensaver disabling fix
717 * DirectShow tuner configuration
718 * Support for no-decoration windows
721 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
722 * The OpenGL video output is back
723 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
724 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
725 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
726 is not yet available in the new module
727 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
730 * Support for single-buffered overlay
739 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
742 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
745 The following languages were added:
751 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
752 --------------------------------
755 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
756 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
759 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
760 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
761 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
764 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
767 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
770 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
773 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
774 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
775 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
779 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
781 * Support of playlist group announcement
784 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
785 --------------------------------
788 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
789 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
790 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
791 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
792 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
793 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
796 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
797 (Stream your desktop)
798 * Improved DVD support:
799 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
800 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
801 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
802 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
803 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
804 (selection of titles/chapters).
807 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
808 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
809 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
810 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
811 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
812 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
813 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
814 * Improved Ogg demuxer
815 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
816 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
819 * G.726 audio support
820 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
821 * MPEG-4 text support
822 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
823 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
824 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
828 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
829 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
830 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
831 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
832 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
833 * DVB subtitles encoder
834 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
835 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
837 * Text track muxing for mp4
838 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
839 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
840 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
841 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
842 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
845 * H.263 RTP streaming support
846 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
847 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
850 * New audio equalizer filter
851 * Very trivial volume normalizer
852 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
853 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
854 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
857 * Roku HD1000 Video output
858 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
859 with support for effects.
860 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
861 - New filters can be streamed.
862 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
863 - Centralized scaling and blending
865 - "time", to display current time
866 - "marq", to display a marquee
869 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
870 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
871 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
872 * A few skins2 improvements
873 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
874 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
875 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
876 * Improved CORBA control module
879 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
880 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
881 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
884 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
885 * Experimental SVG rendering module
886 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
889 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
890 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
891 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
892 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
893 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
896 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
899 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
900 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
903 * Server/client network synchronization module
904 * VBrick streams fully supported
905 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
909 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
910 --------------------------------
913 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
914 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
915 * Improved HTTP daemon.
916 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
919 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
920 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
921 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
922 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
923 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
924 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
925 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
928 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
929 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
930 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
931 * Improved directory access module.
932 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
933 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
934 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
935 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
936 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
939 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
940 * mmsh streaming fixes.
941 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
944 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
945 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
946 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
949 * Improved session announcement system.
950 * Minimize threads usage by default.
951 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
952 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
953 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
954 * Improved transrater.
955 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
956 * New configuration system.
957 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
960 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
961 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
962 * Supports live streams and VoD.
963 * Supports scheduling.
964 * Telnet interface for vlm.
965 * HTTP interface for vlm.
968 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
969 - Ability to embed video output.
970 - Support for bitmap fonts.
971 - Lots of improvements.
972 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
973 - New design and set of icons.
974 - Ability to embed video output.
975 - Support for hotkeys.
976 - Support for bookmarks.
978 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
979 - Better hotkeys handling.
982 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
983 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
984 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
985 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
988 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
989 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
990 * Improved Windows installer.
996 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
997 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1000 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1001 ---------------------------------
1004 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1005 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1008 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1009 --------------------------------
1012 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1013 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1016 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1017 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1018 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1019 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1022 * Internal improvments
1023 * Improved import/export
1026 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1028 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1029 small and strange formats.
1031 * New MOD audio demux.
1032 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1033 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1034 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1035 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1038 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1039 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1040 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1046 * New opengl video output plugin.
1049 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1050 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1053 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1054 --------------------------------
1057 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1058 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1059 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1060 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1061 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1062 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1063 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1064 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1067 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1072 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1073 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1074 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1075 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1076 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1077 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1078 * Better Icecast support.
1079 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1080 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1083 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1084 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1085 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1086 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1087 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1088 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1089 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1092 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1093 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1094 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1095 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1096 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1097 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1098 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1099 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1100 * Preliminary RTP support.
1101 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1106 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1107 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1109 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1110 - Improvements and help in preferences
1111 - New streaming wizard
1112 - Revised Disc Open menu
1114 - Improvements of the standard pages
1115 - Support for new commands
1116 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1119 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1120 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1123 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1124 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1125 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1126 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1127 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1128 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1129 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1130 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1131 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1134 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1136 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1137 * Support for Panther.
1138 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1139 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1142 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1143 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1144 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1145 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1146 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1147 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1148 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1149 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1152 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1153 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1154 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1157 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1160 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1161 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1162 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1163 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1166 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1167 --------------------------------
1170 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1173 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1174 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1177 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1178 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1181 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1184 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1185 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1188 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1191 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1194 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1195 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1199 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1200 --------------------------------
1203 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1204 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1208 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1209 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1210 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1212 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1213 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1216 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1219 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1222 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1223 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1227 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1228 --------------------------------
1231 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1232 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1236 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1237 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1238 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1239 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1240 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1243 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1244 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1245 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1248 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1249 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1250 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1253 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1254 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1255 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1256 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1257 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1260 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1261 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1262 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1265 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1268 * Improved build system.
1269 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1270 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1271 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1272 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1275 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1276 --------------------------------
1279 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1282 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1283 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1284 * Video 4 Linux support
1285 * CD Digital Audio support
1286 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1289 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1290 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1291 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1292 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1295 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1296 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1297 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1298 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1299 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1300 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1301 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1304 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1305 * New HTTP remote control interface
1308 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1309 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1310 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1311 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1314 * New reset option for the preferences
1315 * You can set your language in the prefences
1316 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1317 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1318 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1319 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1322 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1323 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1324 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1327 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1328 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1329 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1330 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1331 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1332 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1333 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1334 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1335 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1336 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1339 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1340 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1341 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1342 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1343 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1344 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1345 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1348 * Interface localization
1349 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1350 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1351 * New full-featured Preferences window
1354 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1355 --------------------------------
1358 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1359 * support for skins at the interface level
1360 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1361 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1362 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1363 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1364 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1367 * fixed HTTP redirects
1368 * support for opening an entire directory
1369 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1370 * new video4linux access plug-in
1371 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1374 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1375 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1376 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1379 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1380 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1381 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1382 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1383 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1384 * new codec for raw I420 video
1385 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1388 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1389 (although it still misses some important features)
1390 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1393 * new HTTP output support
1394 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1395 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1398 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1401 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1404 * reorderable playlist
1405 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1406 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1407 * support for mono audio output devices
1408 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1409 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1410 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1411 * the messages window remembers more lines
1412 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1413 * http and ogg stream output options
1414 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1417 * new skinnable interface
1418 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1420 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1421 * support for FLAC audio format
1422 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1424 * network tab in the interface
1425 * "apply" handling in preferences
1428 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1429 ---------------------------------
1432 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1433 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1434 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1435 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1437 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1438 * DTS S/PDIF support
1441 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1442 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1443 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1444 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1447 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1448 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1451 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1454 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1457 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1459 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1460 * rc interface is now fully useable
1461 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1464 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1465 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1466 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1467 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1468 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1470 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1471 * support for mouse gestures
1472 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1475 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1476 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1479 * improved ID3 tag detection
1480 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1481 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1482 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1484 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1487 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1488 ---------------------------------
1491 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1492 English was set as the preferred language
1495 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1496 --------------------------------
1499 * new mouse gesture interface
1500 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1504 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1505 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1506 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1509 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1510 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1514 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1517 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1518 without the user consent
1521 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1523 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1524 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1525 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1528 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1529 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1530 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1531 * playlist enhancements
1532 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1533 * new step forward/step backward commands
1534 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1535 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1536 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1539 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1540 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1541 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1544 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1545 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1548 * native video output is working again
1549 * only commandline interface support
1550 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1553 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1554 --------------------------------
1557 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1558 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1559 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1560 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1561 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1562 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1563 and A/52 streams are supported)
1564 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1569 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1570 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1571 * VCD entry points support
1572 * VCD image file support
1575 * support for *.asf format
1576 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1577 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1578 * support for ogg encapsulation
1579 * support for raw DV format
1580 * support for *.wav format
1581 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1584 Stream discovery & playlists:
1585 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1586 * support for .m3u file format
1587 * support for .asx file format
1588 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1591 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1592 (only available with the .avi demux)
1593 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1594 * support for raw PCM data
1595 * support for Cinepak video codec
1596 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1597 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1598 * support for Xvid codec
1599 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1600 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1601 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1603 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1605 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1608 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1611 * new WxWindows interface
1612 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1613 device and the channels configuration
1614 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1615 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1616 format that VLC can play
1617 * new swedish translation
1618 * enhancements of the playlist window
1619 * new messages window to see debug info
1620 * fixed a few crashes
1623 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1624 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1625 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1626 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working