1 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
6 * Support for the sftp protocol
7 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on Windows version
8 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
9 * New memory input (imem) module to feed VLC from data in memory
10 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams
14 * HD dvb subtitles - Display Definition Segment support
15 * PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
16 * Invmem module improvements
17 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities
18 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 on Windows Vista and 7
19 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles, especially on Windows
22 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
23 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
24 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
25 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
26 * Various EGP improvements
29 * WPL playlist support
30 * ZPL playlist support
31 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
32 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
33 * Podcast images are now displayed
36 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
37 * 3F1R to stereo downmix filter
38 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited resampler,
39 linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_float, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF and
40 * NEON assembly audio converter module
43 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
44 * x264, add profile-limitter sameway as x264.eve has, for example
45 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
46 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
47 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
48 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
51 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
52 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
53 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
54 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
55 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
56 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
59 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
62 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
63 * Service discovery based on libudev
66 * New smem module, streaming to memory
69 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
71 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
74 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
77 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
78 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
79 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
80 by Andy Matuschak et al.
81 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
84 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
87 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
93 * csri codec. Use libass module instead.
94 * galaktos. Use new projectM module instead.
95 * showintf. Useless in qt and mac os X
97 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx. Use new XCB modules instead.
98 * HAL. Use libudev instead.
99 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
100 * WinCE and qnx interfaces
101 * opie, qte and qte_main
102 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed. Use the ugly one.
103 * XvMC accelerated modules. Use VAAPI instead.
105 * cddax. Use cdda instead
108 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 (not yet released):
109 ---------------------------------------------------
111 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
114 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
115 --------------------------------
118 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
119 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
122 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
123 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
126 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
127 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
130 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
133 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
134 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
137 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
138 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
141 * New Walloon translation
142 * Swedish, Ukrainian an French translation update
145 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
146 --------------------------------
149 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
150 regressions in most popular drivers
151 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
154 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
155 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
156 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
159 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
160 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
163 * Update for appletrailers lua script
164 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
165 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
166 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
167 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
170 * New udev module for linux
173 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
176 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
179 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
180 --------------------------------
183 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
184 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
185 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
188 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
189 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
192 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
193 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
196 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
199 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
200 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
201 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
202 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
205 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
206 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
207 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
208 - no support for Goom and SDL
209 - limited text rendering support
210 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
213 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
214 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
215 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
216 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
217 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
218 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
219 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
220 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
221 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
225 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
228 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
231 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
232 --------------------------------
235 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
236 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
237 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
238 * Fix Dailymotion access script
239 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
240 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
243 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
244 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
247 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
248 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
249 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
252 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
255 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
256 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
259 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
260 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
261 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
262 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
263 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
264 * Fix various crashes
267 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
269 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
272 Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
273 ---------------------------------
277 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
278 See 'Access:' for more info.
279 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
282 * Instantaneous pausing
283 * Frame-by-Frame playback
284 * Finer speed control
285 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
286 * Timeshift for most medias
287 * RTSP trickplay support
288 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
291 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
292 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
293 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
294 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
295 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
296 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
297 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
298 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
299 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
300 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
303 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
304 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
305 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
306 * Metadata for mod files are supported
307 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
308 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
309 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
312 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
313 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
316 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
317 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
318 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
319 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
320 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
321 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
322 * DVB scanning on linux
323 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
324 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
325 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
326 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
327 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
328 * MTP device access on Unix
329 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
330 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
333 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
334 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
335 Windows and Mac OS X.
338 * Export the playlist in HTML
339 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
340 * Better metadata handling and reading
342 Linux/Windows interface:
343 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
344 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
345 * Recently played items list
346 * Interface toolbar customizations
347 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
350 - Improvements on many dialogs
351 - New dialog for plugins listing
352 - Fixed-size mode for videos
353 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
354 * Better integration in GTK environments
357 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
358 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
359 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
360 * Additional usability improvements
363 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
364 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
365 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
366 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
367 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
370 * New Maemo port with:
371 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
372 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
375 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
378 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
379 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
380 * Support for latest iSight models
383 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
384 * Surround support for PulseAudio
387 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
388 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
389 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
390 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
391 The old image video output has been removed.
392 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
393 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
396 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
401 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
402 ---------------------------------
405 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
406 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
409 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
410 ---------------------------------
413 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
416 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
419 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
420 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
421 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
422 main controller window.
423 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
426 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
431 * Updates of other localizations
434 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
435 * Lots of small bugfixes.
436 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
437 * Telnet fixes on Windows
438 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
440 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
441 ---------------------------------
444 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
446 Bunch of small bugfixes.
449 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
450 --------------------------------
455 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
456 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
459 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
460 --------------------------------
462 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
463 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
466 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
469 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
470 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
473 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
474 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
477 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
478 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
479 * Various fixed in playlist
482 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
485 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
488 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
489 ------------------------------------
491 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
492 * Fixes several memory leaks.
495 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
496 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
497 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
500 * Stability fix for the video output.
503 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
504 --------------------------------
507 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
508 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
509 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
510 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
511 * Fixed update system bugs
512 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
515 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
516 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
517 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
518 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
519 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
520 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
521 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
522 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
523 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
524 modern Mac OS X versions
527 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
528 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
530 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
531 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
534 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
535 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
536 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
537 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
538 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
539 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
542 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
543 --------------------------------
545 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
546 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
550 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
551 --------------------------------
553 * Multiple bug fixes.
556 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
557 ---------------------------------
561 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
562 recent to work correctly
563 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
564 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
565 edit the ".hosts" file.
566 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
567 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
568 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
569 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
570 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
571 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
572 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
573 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
574 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
575 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
576 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
577 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
578 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
579 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
580 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
581 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
582 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
583 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
584 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
585 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
586 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
587 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
588 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
589 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
590 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
591 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
592 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
593 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
594 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
595 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
596 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
597 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
598 and postproc modules.
599 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
600 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
601 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
602 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
604 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
606 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
607 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
609 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
610 * Glide video output module has been removed.
616 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
618 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
619 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
622 * Vastly improved playlist support:
623 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
625 * Shoutcast TV listings
626 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
628 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
629 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
631 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
634 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
635 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
636 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
637 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
638 * JACK audio input support
639 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
640 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
641 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
642 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
643 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
644 * Experimental EyeTV access module
645 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
646 (available as a separate download).
647 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
649 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
650 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
651 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
653 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
654 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
657 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
658 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
659 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
660 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
662 * APEv1/2 tags support
663 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
664 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
666 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
667 * TiVo Series 2 support
668 * CD+G karaoke Files support
673 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
674 * Flash Screen Video support
675 * CamStudio Screen Video support
676 * DosBox Capture support
677 * Karl Morton's Video support
678 * limited atrac3 support
680 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
681 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
682 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
684 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
685 * NellyMoser ASAO support
686 * APE (Monkey audio) support
687 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
688 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
691 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
692 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
693 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
694 * AQTitle subtitles support
695 * MKV USF subtitles support
696 * HTML-based subtitles support
697 * MPSub subtitles support
698 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
699 * MPL2 subtitles support
700 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
701 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
702 * Realtext subtitle support
703 * DKS subtitle support
704 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
705 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
708 * Flash Screen Video support
709 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
711 Video outputs and filters:
712 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
713 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
714 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
715 * New puzzle video output filter
716 * Re-written motion detection video filter
717 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
719 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
720 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
721 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
722 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
723 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
724 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
725 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
726 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
727 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
728 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
729 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
730 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
731 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
732 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
734 Audio outputs and filters:
735 * Replay gain support
736 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
737 new scaletempo audio filter)
738 * New spatializer audio filter
739 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
742 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
743 * New RTP payload formats:
744 * Speex voice audio codec
745 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
746 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
747 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
748 * DCCP transport for RTP
749 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
754 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
755 end-user suitable way.
756 * Improved user interaction
757 * Improved mouse gestures
758 * Vastly improved Update checker
759 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
761 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
762 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
764 * Improved video output features
765 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
766 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
767 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
768 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
769 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
771 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
772 if libncursesw is available.
773 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
774 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
775 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
777 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
778 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
779 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
780 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
781 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
782 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
783 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
784 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
787 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
788 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
789 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
792 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
793 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
794 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
795 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
796 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
797 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
800 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
801 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
811 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
812 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
813 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
816 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
817 ----------------------------------
820 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
823 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
824 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
825 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
826 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
827 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
828 * Updated Polish translation
831 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
832 ----------------------------------
835 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
836 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
837 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
840 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
841 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
842 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
843 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
844 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
845 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
846 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
847 to an unexpected application termination
848 * New Serbian translation
849 * Updated Romanian translation
852 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
853 ----------------------------------
856 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
857 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
858 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
859 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
860 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
861 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
862 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
863 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
866 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
867 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
868 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
869 * Fixed AAC resampling
870 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
871 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
874 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
875 ----------------------------------
878 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
879 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
880 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
881 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
882 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
885 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
886 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
887 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
888 * Close MMS access on network timeout
889 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
892 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
893 ----------------------------------
896 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
897 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
900 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
901 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
902 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
903 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
905 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
909 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
912 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
915 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
918 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
921 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
922 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
923 encoding on multi-cpu systems
924 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
925 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
927 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
928 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
929 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
930 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
933 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
936 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
937 ----------------------------------
940 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
941 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
942 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
944 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
945 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
947 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
948 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
951 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
953 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
954 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
955 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
956 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
957 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
958 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
960 * Support for current Ogg file formats
961 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
962 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
965 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
968 * The automatic updating facility was removed
969 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
970 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
971 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
974 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
975 ----------------------------------
977 Various bugfixes, notably:
978 * Windows Vista compatibility
979 * Cropping in Direct3D
980 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
981 * RSS filter string overflow
983 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
985 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
986 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
989 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
990 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
993 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
996 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
999 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1002 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1003 ----------------------------------
1005 Various bugfixes, notably:
1006 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1007 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1008 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1009 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1010 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1011 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1014 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1015 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1018 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1020 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1021 * Diverse usability improvements
1022 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1023 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1024 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1027 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1028 ---------------------------------
1030 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1031 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1034 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1037 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1038 --------------------------------
1041 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1044 * Support for RTSP authentication
1045 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1046 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1047 * ATSC support for DVB input
1048 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1049 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1050 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1053 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1054 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1055 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1056 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1057 * Matroska WavPack support
1058 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1059 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1060 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1063 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1064 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1065 * Improved libcaca support
1069 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1070 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1072 * Systray support in skins
1074 * Support for Apple Remote control
1075 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1076 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1077 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1078 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1080 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1083 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1084 Windows 9x/ME users:
1085 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1086 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1087 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1088 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1089 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1091 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1092 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1101 * Updates to the libvlc API
1102 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1105 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1106 --------------------------------
1109 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1110 * Support for downloading updates
1114 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1115 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1116 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1117 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1119 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1120 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1121 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1124 * Cook (Real audio) support
1126 Playlist / Services discovery:
1127 * XSPF playlist support
1129 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1132 * New JACK audio output
1135 * New video filters:
1136 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1137 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1138 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1139 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1140 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1141 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1144 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1147 * System to inform the user and request information
1148 - HTTP authentication
1152 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1153 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1154 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1157 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1158 - Improved playlist handling
1159 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1161 - Embedded Video output
1162 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1163 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1164 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1165 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1166 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1168 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1169 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1172 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1175 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1176 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1177 * Growl "Now playing" support
1180 * Ability to log to syslog
1181 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1184 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1186 * A bit more automatic testing
1189 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1190 ---------------------------------
1193 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1194 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1197 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1198 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1201 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1204 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1205 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1211 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1214 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1215 --------------------------------
1218 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1222 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1223 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1224 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1227 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1228 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1229 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1230 * GnomeVFS input module
1231 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1232 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1235 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1236 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1237 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1240 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1241 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1247 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1248 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1251 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1252 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1253 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1256 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1258 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1259 - New extended controls panel
1260 - New bookmarks window
1261 - Fixed playlist sorting
1262 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1264 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1265 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1266 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1267 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1271 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1272 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1274 - Include macro to include other files
1278 * Should now work outside IE as well
1281 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1284 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1285 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1288 The following languages were added:
1292 * Simplified Chinese
1293 The following languages were re-added:
1297 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1298 --------------------------------
1301 * Rewrite of the playlist
1303 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1304 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1305 * Preferences improvements:
1306 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1307 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1309 * Core image manipulation support
1310 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1311 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1312 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1313 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1314 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1315 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1316 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1317 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1318 * Access filter architecture
1319 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1320 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1324 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1325 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1326 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1327 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1328 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1329 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1330 * Massive Matroska improvements
1331 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1333 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1334 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1335 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1336 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1337 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1339 Decoders / Encoders:
1340 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1341 * PNG decoder/encoder
1342 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1343 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1346 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1349 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1350 * Brand new SAP module
1351 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1352 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1353 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1354 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1355 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1356 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1360 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1363 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1364 * Image file video output (png)
1365 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1366 * Improvements to wall video filter
1367 * Support for font color and opacity
1373 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1374 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1375 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1379 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1380 - Improved preferences
1381 - Improvements to the wizard
1382 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1384 - Redesigned playlist
1385 - Improved preferences
1387 - Support for multiple actions
1390 - Support for the new playlist system
1392 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1395 * Screensaver disabling fix
1396 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1397 * Support for no-decoration windows
1400 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1401 * The OpenGL video output is back
1402 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1403 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1404 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1405 is not yet available in the new module
1406 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1409 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1418 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1421 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1424 The following languages were added:
1430 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1431 --------------------------------
1434 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1435 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1438 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1439 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1440 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1443 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1446 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1449 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1452 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1453 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1454 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1458 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1460 * Support of playlist group announcement
1463 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1464 --------------------------------
1467 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1468 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1469 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1470 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1471 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1472 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1475 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1476 (Stream your desktop)
1477 * Improved DVD support:
1478 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1479 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1480 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1481 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1482 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1483 (selection of titles/chapters).
1486 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1487 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1488 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1489 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1490 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1491 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1492 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1493 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1494 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1495 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1498 * G.726 audio support
1499 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1500 * MPEG-4 text support
1501 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1502 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1503 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1507 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1508 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1509 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1510 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1511 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1512 * DVB subtitles encoder
1513 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1514 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1516 * Text track muxing for mp4
1517 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1518 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1519 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1520 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1521 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1522 * Improved ASF muxer
1524 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1525 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1526 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1529 * New audio equalizer filter
1530 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1531 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1532 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1533 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1536 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1537 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1538 with support for effects.
1539 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1540 - New filters can be streamed.
1541 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1542 - Centralized scaling and blending
1544 - "time", to display current time
1545 - "marq", to display a marquee
1548 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1549 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1550 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1551 * A few skins2 improvements
1552 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1553 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1554 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1555 * Improved CORBA control module
1558 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1559 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1560 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1563 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1564 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1565 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1568 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1569 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1570 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1571 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1572 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1575 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1578 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1579 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1582 * Server/client network synchronization module
1583 * VBrick streams fully supported
1584 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1588 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1589 --------------------------------
1592 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1593 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1594 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1595 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1598 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1599 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1600 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1601 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1602 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1603 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1604 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1607 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1608 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1609 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1610 * Improved directory access module.
1611 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1612 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1613 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1614 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1615 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1618 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1619 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1620 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1623 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1624 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1625 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1628 * Improved session announcement system.
1629 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1630 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1631 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1632 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1633 * Improved transrater.
1634 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1635 * New configuration system.
1636 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1639 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1640 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1641 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1642 * Supports scheduling.
1643 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1644 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1647 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1648 - Ability to embed video output.
1649 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1650 - Lots of improvements.
1651 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1652 - New design and set of icons.
1653 - Ability to embed video output.
1654 - Support for hotkeys.
1655 - Support for bookmarks.
1657 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1658 - Better hotkeys handling.
1661 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1662 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1663 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1664 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1667 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1668 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1669 * Improved Windows installer.
1675 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1676 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1679 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1680 ---------------------------------
1683 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1684 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1687 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1688 --------------------------------
1691 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1692 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1695 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1696 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1697 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1698 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1701 * Internal improvments
1702 * Improved import/export
1705 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1707 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1708 small and strange formats.
1710 * New MOD audio demux.
1711 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1712 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1713 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1714 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1717 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1718 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1719 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1725 * New opengl video output plugin.
1728 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1729 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1732 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1733 --------------------------------
1736 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1737 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1738 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1739 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1740 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1741 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1742 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1743 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1746 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1751 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1752 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1753 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1754 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1755 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1756 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1757 * Better Icecast support.
1758 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1759 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1762 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1763 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1764 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1765 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1766 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1767 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1768 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1771 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1772 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1773 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1774 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1775 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1776 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1777 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1778 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1779 * Preliminary RTP support.
1780 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1785 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1786 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1788 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1789 - Improvements and help in preferences
1790 - New streaming wizard
1791 - Revised Disc Open menu
1793 - Improvements of the standard pages
1794 - Support for new commands
1795 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1798 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1799 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1802 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1803 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1804 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1805 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1806 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1807 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1808 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1809 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1810 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1813 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1815 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1816 * Support for Panther.
1817 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1818 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1821 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1822 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1823 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1824 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1825 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1826 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1827 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1828 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1831 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1832 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1833 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1836 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1839 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1840 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1841 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1842 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1845 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1846 --------------------------------
1849 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1852 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1853 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1856 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1857 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1860 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1863 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1864 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1867 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1870 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1873 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1874 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1878 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1879 --------------------------------
1882 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1883 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1887 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1888 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1889 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1891 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1892 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1895 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1898 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1901 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1902 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1906 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1907 --------------------------------
1910 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1911 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1915 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1916 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1917 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1918 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1919 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1922 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1923 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1924 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1927 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1928 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1929 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1932 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1933 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1934 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1935 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1936 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1939 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1940 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1941 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1944 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1947 * Improved build system.
1948 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1949 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1950 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1951 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1954 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1955 --------------------------------
1958 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1961 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1962 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1963 * Video 4 Linux support
1964 * CD Digital Audio support
1965 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1968 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1969 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1970 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1971 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1974 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1975 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1976 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1977 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1978 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1979 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1980 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1983 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1984 * New HTTP remote control interface
1987 * 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.
1988 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1989 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1990 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1993 * New reset option for the preferences
1994 * You can set your language in the prefences
1995 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1996 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1997 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1998 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2001 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2002 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2003 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2006 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2007 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2008 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2009 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2010 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2011 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2012 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2013 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2014 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2015 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2018 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2019 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2020 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2021 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2022 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2023 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2024 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2027 * Interface localization
2028 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2029 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2030 * New full-featured Preferences window
2033 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2034 --------------------------------
2037 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2038 * support for skins at the interface level
2039 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2040 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2041 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2042 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2043 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2046 * fixed HTTP redirects
2047 * support for opening an entire directory
2048 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2049 * new video4linux access plug-in
2050 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2053 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2054 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2055 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2058 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2059 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2060 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2061 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2062 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2063 * new codec for raw I420 video
2064 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2067 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2068 (although it still misses some important features)
2069 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2072 * new HTTP output support
2073 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2074 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2077 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2080 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2083 * reorderable playlist
2084 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2085 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2086 * support for mono audio output devices
2087 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2088 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2089 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2090 * the messages window remembers more lines
2091 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2092 * http and ogg stream output options
2093 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2096 * new skinnable interface
2097 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2099 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2100 * support for FLAC audio format
2101 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2103 * network tab in the interface
2104 * "apply" handling in preferences
2107 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2108 ---------------------------------
2111 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2112 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2113 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2114 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2116 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2117 * DTS S/PDIF support
2120 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2121 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2122 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2123 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2126 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2127 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2130 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2133 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2136 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2138 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2139 * rc interface is now fully useable
2140 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2143 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2144 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2145 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2146 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2147 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2149 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2150 * support for mouse gestures
2151 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2154 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2155 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2158 * improved ID3 tag detection
2159 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2160 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2161 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2163 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2166 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2167 ---------------------------------
2170 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2171 English was set as the preferred language
2174 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2175 --------------------------------
2178 * new mouse gesture interface
2179 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2183 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2184 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2185 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2188 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2189 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2193 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2196 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2197 without the user consent
2200 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2202 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2203 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2204 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2207 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2208 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2209 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2210 * playlist enhancements
2211 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2212 * new step forward/step backward commands
2213 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2214 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2215 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2218 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2219 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2220 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2223 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2224 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2227 * native video output is working again
2228 * only commandline interface support
2229 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2232 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2233 --------------------------------
2236 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2237 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2238 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2239 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2240 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2241 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2242 and A/52 streams are supported)
2243 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2248 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2249 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2250 * VCD entry points support
2251 * VCD image file support
2254 * support for *.asf format
2255 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2256 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2257 * support for ogg encapsulation
2258 * support for raw DV format
2259 * support for *.wav format
2260 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2263 Stream discovery & playlists:
2264 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2265 * support for .m3u file format
2266 * support for .asx file format
2267 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2270 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2271 (only available with the .avi demux)
2272 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2273 * support for raw PCM data
2274 * support for Cinepak video codec
2275 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2276 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2277 * support for Xvid codec
2278 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2279 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2280 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2282 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2284 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2287 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2290 * new WxWindows interface
2291 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2292 device and the channels configuration
2293 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2294 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2295 format that VLC can play
2296 * new swedish translation
2297 * enhancements of the playlist window
2298 * new messages window to see debug info
2299 * fixed a few crashes
2302 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2303 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2304 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2305 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working