1 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
8 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
11 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
12 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
13 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
14 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation
15 * Digital Cinema Package support
18 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
19 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
20 * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1, Bink
21 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
22 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
23 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
24 * OpenMax IL imrpovements, notably for RaspberryPi
25 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
26 * New jpeg image decoder
29 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
30 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
31 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
32 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
35 * New CAF format module
36 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking
37 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking
38 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
39 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
42 * Basic support for WebVTT
43 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio stream type in TS
44 * Support HDPR TS files
45 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
46 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
47 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
50 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
51 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
55 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
56 * New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
57 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
58 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
59 * New Android native window provider module
60 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
63 * New Oldmovie effect filter
64 * New VHS effect filter
65 * New Freeze effect filter
66 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
67 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
70 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
73 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
74 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
75 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
76 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
77 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
78 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
81 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
84 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
87 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
90 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
93 * ios video output: use ios2
94 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
95 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
98 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
99 --------------------------------
102 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
104 * Fix some subtitles track selection
107 * VP9 support in WebM
108 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
109 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
112 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
113 * Support Speex in ogg files
114 * Fix some .mov playlists support
115 * Support Alac in mkv
116 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
117 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
120 * Fix DVB options parsing
121 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
122 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
125 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
126 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
129 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
130 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
133 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
134 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
135 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
136 * Fix play after drag'n drop
137 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
140 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
141 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
144 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
145 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
148 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
149 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
150 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
151 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
152 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
153 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
154 * Improves interface resizings
157 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
158 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
159 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
160 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
161 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
165 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
166 --------------------------------
169 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
170 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
171 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
172 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
173 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
175 3rd party libraries (contrib):
176 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
179 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
180 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
181 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
182 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
183 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
186 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
187 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
191 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
192 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
193 * Support for Ulead DV audio
194 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
195 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
196 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
197 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
198 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
199 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
200 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
201 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
202 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
203 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
206 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
207 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
208 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
211 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
212 remove support for previous OS X releases
213 * Major improvements in DASH support
214 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
215 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
216 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
217 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
218 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
219 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
220 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
221 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
222 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
223 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
224 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
227 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
228 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
229 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
230 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
231 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
232 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
233 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
234 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
235 * Support for more MJPEG streams
236 * Add support for liveleak streams
237 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
238 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
239 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
242 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
243 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
244 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
245 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
246 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
247 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
248 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
249 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
250 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
251 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
252 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
255 * New remapping channel filter
256 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
257 * New VSXu visualization plugin
258 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
259 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
260 * New gain audio filter
263 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
264 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
265 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
266 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
267 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
268 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
269 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
270 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
271 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
274 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
275 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
276 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
277 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
278 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
279 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
280 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
283 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
284 * Options support for AVIO output module
285 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
286 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
287 * Livehttp stream encryption support
288 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
289 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
292 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
295 * configurable password for the HTTP server
296 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
297 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
298 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
299 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
300 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
301 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
302 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
306 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
309 * Add support for multiple video outputs
310 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
312 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
313 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
314 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
315 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
316 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
317 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
318 VLC's internal volume level
319 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
321 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
322 selection and to manage the list of presets
323 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
324 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
325 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
326 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
327 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
328 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
329 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
330 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
331 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
332 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
334 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
335 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
336 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
337 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
338 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
339 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
340 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
341 3rd party applications
342 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
343 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
344 (system-wide settings)
345 * Add support for the Video Title option
346 * Add support for the Boss Key
347 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
348 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
351 * Partial support for Qt5.0
352 * Menus modifications and improvements
353 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
354 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
355 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
356 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
357 * EPG display fixes and improvements
358 * Add SD pixmap sources
359 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
360 * Display playlist total duration
361 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
362 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
363 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
368 * Extend sliders, offsets options
369 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
370 * Numerous fixes and improvements
371 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
374 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
375 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
376 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
377 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
378 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
379 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
380 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
381 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
382 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
383 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
386 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
387 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
388 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
389 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
390 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
391 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
393 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
394 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
395 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
396 * Broken crop video filter
398 * OSD parser and menu
399 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
400 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
401 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
402 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
406 * Update of all translations
409 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
410 --------------------------------
413 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
414 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
417 * Fix modplug security issues
420 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
421 --------------------------------
425 * Fix crash in QTsound
426 * Fix screen mouse file location
427 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
430 * Fix use after free in sgimb
431 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
434 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
437 * Fix interface crashes
438 * Fix autostart playback option
439 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
442 * update Welsh translation
443 * New Kannada translation
446 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
447 --------------------------------
450 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
451 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
455 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
458 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
461 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
464 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
468 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
471 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
474 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
475 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
476 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
479 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
480 --------------------------------
483 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
486 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
489 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
490 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
491 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
492 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
493 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
494 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
497 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
498 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
499 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
500 * 3rd party codecs updates
503 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
504 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
505 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
506 in the advanced preferences panel
507 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
508 * Fix crash within the video output code
509 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
510 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
511 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
512 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
514 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
517 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
520 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
521 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
524 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
527 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
528 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
529 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
530 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
531 Dutch, Danish, translations
532 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
535 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
536 --------------------------------
539 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
542 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
543 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
544 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
547 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
548 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
549 * Fix koreus lua parser
550 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
551 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
552 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
553 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
556 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
557 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
560 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
563 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
564 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
565 * Fix Time counter UI look
566 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
569 * Fix https streaming
572 * Fix audio and video track selection:
573 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
574 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
577 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
578 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
579 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
580 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
581 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
584 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
585 --------------------------------
588 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
589 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
590 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
591 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
592 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
593 during playback on Mac OS X
596 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
597 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
598 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
601 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
602 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
603 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
604 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
605 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
608 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
609 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
610 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
611 * Support Youtube live streams
614 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
617 * Fix media info dialog update
618 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
619 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
620 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
621 * Fix album art display at start
624 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
625 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
626 * Fix menus display and behavior
627 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
628 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
629 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
630 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
631 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
632 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
633 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
636 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
637 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
638 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
639 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
640 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
641 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
642 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
643 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
644 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
647 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
648 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
649 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
650 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
651 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
654 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
655 --------------------------------
658 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
661 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
662 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
665 * Add GateKeeper support
666 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
667 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
668 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
671 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
674 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
675 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
676 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
677 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
678 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
681 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
682 --------------------------------
685 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
686 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
687 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
688 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
689 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
690 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
691 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
692 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
693 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
694 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
695 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
699 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
700 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
701 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
702 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
703 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
704 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
705 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
706 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
707 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
708 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
709 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
710 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
713 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
714 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
716 * Fix MP3 free format support
719 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
720 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
721 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
722 * Fix for DVB channels file support
723 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
726 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
727 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
729 Audio filters and output:
730 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
731 * Fix DirectSound device selection
732 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
733 * Do not apply volume in file output
734 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
735 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
738 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
739 the persistant media library
740 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
741 to the media library or the temporary playlist
742 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
743 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
744 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
745 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
746 press on the Play/Pause button
747 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
748 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
749 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
750 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
751 * Many Fullscreen fixes
752 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
753 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
754 Synchronization panel
755 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
756 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
757 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
758 * Fix crashes on exit
759 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
761 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
762 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
763 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
764 automatically reset on the first launch.
765 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
766 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
767 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
770 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
771 * Fixes for icecast SD
774 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
775 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
776 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
777 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
778 * Fix tags and file names display
779 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
782 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
783 * Fix for key events and focus loss
786 * Fix display of some buttons
787 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
788 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
791 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
792 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
793 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
796 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
797 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
798 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
799 Thai translations update
800 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
803 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
804 --------------------------------
807 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
808 * fix the samba module compilation
809 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
810 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
811 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
812 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
815 * Support for MXPEG files
816 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
817 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
820 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
821 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
822 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
825 * Fix ogm header creation
828 * limit spatializer filter distortions
829 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
832 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
833 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
834 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
835 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
838 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
841 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
842 * allow to hide the sidebar
843 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
844 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
845 * noticebly faster launch time
846 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
847 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
848 * improve track synchronization panel
849 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
850 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
853 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
854 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
855 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
856 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
859 * fix for menus display
860 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
861 * documentation update
864 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
865 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
868 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
869 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
870 * Update Jamendo selections
874 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
875 * fix a crash on VLM close
878 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
879 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
880 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
881 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
884 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
887 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
888 ---------------------------------
891 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
892 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
893 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
894 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
895 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
896 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
897 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
898 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
899 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
900 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
901 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
902 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
903 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
904 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
905 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
906 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
907 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
908 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
909 --http-crl (optional CRL).
910 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
911 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
912 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
913 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
914 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
915 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
916 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
918 Important changes for packagers:
919 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
920 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
921 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
922 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
923 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
924 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
925 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
926 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
927 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
928 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
931 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
932 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
933 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
934 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
935 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
936 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
937 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
940 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
941 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
942 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
943 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
944 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
945 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
946 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
947 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
948 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
949 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
950 * PulseAudio audio input support
951 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
952 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
953 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
954 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
955 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
956 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
957 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
958 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
961 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
962 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
963 are notably concerned.
964 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
965 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
966 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
967 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
968 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
969 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
970 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
971 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
972 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
973 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
974 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
975 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
976 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
977 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
978 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
981 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
982 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
983 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
984 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
985 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
986 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
987 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
988 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
989 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
990 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
991 * Improved support of tracker files
992 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
995 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
996 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
997 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
998 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
999 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1000 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1001 and important cleanups and optimisations
1002 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1003 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1004 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1005 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1006 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1007 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1008 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1009 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1010 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1011 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1012 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1013 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1014 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1015 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1016 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1017 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1018 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1019 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1020 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1021 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1022 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1025 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1026 * New video output for iOS platform
1027 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1028 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1029 * Various vmem improvements
1030 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1031 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1032 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1033 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1034 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1035 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1037 Audio Output and Filters:
1038 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1039 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1040 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1041 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1042 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1043 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1044 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1045 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1046 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1047 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1050 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1051 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1052 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1053 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1054 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1055 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1056 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1057 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1058 * New anti-flickering filter
1059 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1060 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1061 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1062 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1063 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1064 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1065 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1068 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1069 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1070 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1071 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1072 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1073 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1074 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1075 * Major rework of VoD support
1076 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1077 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1078 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1079 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1080 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1081 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1082 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1083 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1084 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1085 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1088 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1089 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1092 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1093 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1094 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1095 list of available audio and video filters
1096 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1097 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1098 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1101 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1102 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1103 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1104 * id3tag: use taglib
1105 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1106 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1107 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1108 * removal of the noise filter
1109 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1110 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1111 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1112 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1115 * Update of translations for most languages.
1116 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1119 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1120 ----------------------------------
1123 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1124 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1127 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1128 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1131 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1132 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1133 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1136 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1139 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1140 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1143 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1146 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1147 ----------------------------------
1150 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1151 including support for OS X Lion
1152 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1153 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1156 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1159 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1160 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1161 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1164 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1167 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1168 ----------------------------------
1171 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1172 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1175 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1176 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1177 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1178 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1179 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1181 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1182 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1183 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1185 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1186 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1189 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1192 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1195 * Fix quitting on Linux
1196 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1200 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1203 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1206 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1207 ---------------------------------
1209 Windows and Mac OS X:
1210 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1213 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1214 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1217 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1220 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1223 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1225 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1226 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1228 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1229 * RTP output and XML export
1230 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1234 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1235 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1236 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1237 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1240 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1241 --------------------------------
1243 Windows and Mac OS X:
1244 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1247 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1250 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1251 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1252 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1253 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1254 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1255 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1258 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1259 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1263 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1264 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1265 * New Luganda Translation
1268 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1269 --------------------------------
1272 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1275 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1276 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1277 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1278 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1281 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1283 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1284 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1285 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1286 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1287 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1288 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1289 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1290 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1292 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1293 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1294 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1295 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1296 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1297 * Configure and build system improvements
1298 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1301 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1302 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1303 * New icelandic translation
1306 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1307 --------------------------------
1310 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1311 #234484 and #260719.
1314 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1315 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1316 and stability reasons
1319 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1323 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1326 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1327 ----------------------------------
1330 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1333 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1334 ---------------------------------
1337 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1338 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1339 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1340 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1343 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1346 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1347 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1348 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1349 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1352 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1353 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1354 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1356 Subtitles and renderer:
1357 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1358 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1359 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1360 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1361 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1364 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1365 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1366 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1367 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1370 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1371 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1373 Miscellaneous fixes:
1374 * KDE device solid actions
1376 * Transcode integer overflow
1377 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1378 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1381 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1382 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1383 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1386 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1387 ----------------------------------
1390 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1394 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1397 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1400 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1401 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1402 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1403 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1406 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1410 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1413 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1416 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1417 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1419 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1423 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1424 * Miscellaneous fixes
1427 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1428 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1429 French and Ukrainian
1430 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1431 * New Asturian translation
1434 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1435 ----------------------------------
1438 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1440 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1443 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1446 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1447 * Various fixes for Windows
1450 * New Armenian translation
1451 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1452 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1455 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1456 --------------------------------
1459 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1460 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1461 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1464 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1465 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1468 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1469 --------------------------------
1471 Access and demuxers:
1472 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1473 * fix for podcasts parsing
1474 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1477 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1478 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1481 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1482 * fix m3u playlists exports
1485 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1488 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1491 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1494 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1497 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1500 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1501 --------------------------------
1504 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1505 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1508 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1509 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1512 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1513 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1514 * fix console output encoding
1516 Interface and extensions:
1517 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1518 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1521 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1522 --------------------------------
1525 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1526 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1527 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1528 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1529 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1530 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1531 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1532 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1533 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1534 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1535 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1536 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1537 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1538 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1539 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1540 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1544 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1545 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1546 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1547 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1548 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1551 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1554 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1555 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1556 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1560 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1563 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1564 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1565 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1568 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1569 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1570 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1571 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1574 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1575 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1578 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1579 --------------------------------
1581 Important changes for users:
1582 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1583 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1585 Important changes for packagers:
1586 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1587 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1588 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1589 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1590 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1592 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1594 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1595 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1596 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1597 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1598 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1601 * Support for the sftp protocol
1602 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1603 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1604 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1605 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1606 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1609 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1610 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1611 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1613 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1614 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1615 * Invmem module improvements
1616 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1617 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1618 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1619 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1620 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1621 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1622 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1623 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1624 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1625 * Support for VP8 codec
1626 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1629 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1630 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1631 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1632 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1633 * Various EGP improvements
1634 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1635 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1638 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1639 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1640 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1641 * Podcast images are now displayed
1644 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1645 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1646 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1647 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1648 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1649 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1650 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1651 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1652 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1653 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1654 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1657 * New content extensions lua framework
1660 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1661 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1662 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1663 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1664 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1665 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1666 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1669 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1670 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1671 * Service discovery based on libudev
1672 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1675 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1676 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1677 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1678 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1679 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1680 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1681 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1684 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1685 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1686 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1689 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1691 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1692 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1695 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1698 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1699 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1700 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1701 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1702 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1703 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1704 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1707 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1708 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1711 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1712 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1713 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1717 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1718 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1719 * Improved Solaris port
1722 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1723 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1726 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1727 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1728 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1729 * transrate: broken since too long
1730 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1731 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1732 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1733 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1734 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1735 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1736 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1737 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1738 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1739 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1740 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1741 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1742 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1743 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1746 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1747 --------------------------------
1750 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1752 Decoders/Packetizers:
1753 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1756 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1757 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1758 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1759 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1760 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1763 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1764 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1767 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1768 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1771 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1772 and Walloon translations updated
1773 * Sinhala translation started
1776 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1777 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1780 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1781 --------------------------------
1784 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1785 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1788 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1791 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1792 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1795 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1796 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1797 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1798 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1801 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1802 --------------------------------
1805 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1806 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1809 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1810 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1813 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1814 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1817 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1820 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1821 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1824 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1825 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1828 * New Walloon translation
1829 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1832 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1833 --------------------------------
1836 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1837 regressions in most popular drivers
1838 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1841 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1842 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1843 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1846 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1847 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1850 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1851 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1852 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1853 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1854 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1857 * New udev module for linux
1860 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1863 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1866 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1867 --------------------------------
1870 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1871 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1872 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1875 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1876 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1879 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1880 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1883 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1886 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1887 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1888 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1889 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1892 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1893 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1894 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1895 - no support for Goom and SDL
1896 - limited text rendering support
1897 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1900 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1901 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1902 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1903 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1904 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1905 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1906 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1907 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1908 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1912 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1915 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1918 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1919 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1920 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1921 Arabic and French translation updates
1924 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1925 --------------------------------
1928 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1929 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1930 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1931 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1932 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1933 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1936 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1937 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1938 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1941 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1942 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1943 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1946 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1949 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1950 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1953 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1954 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1955 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1956 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1957 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1958 * Fix various crashes
1961 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1963 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1967 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1968 ---------------------------------
1972 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1973 See 'Access:' for more info.
1974 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1977 * Instantaneous pausing
1978 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1979 * Finer speed control
1980 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1981 * Timeshift for most medias
1982 * RTSP trickplay support
1983 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1986 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1987 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1988 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1989 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1990 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1991 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1992 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1993 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1994 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1995 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1998 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1999 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2000 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2001 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2002 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2003 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2004 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2007 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2008 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2011 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2012 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2013 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2014 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2015 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2016 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2017 * DVB scanning on linux
2018 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2019 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2020 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2021 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2022 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2023 * MTP device access on Unix
2024 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2025 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2028 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2029 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2030 Windows and Mac OS X.
2033 * Export the playlist in HTML
2034 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2035 * Better metadata handling and reading
2037 Linux/Windows interface:
2038 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2039 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2040 * Recently played items list
2041 * Interface toolbar customizations
2042 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2043 - More menus actions
2044 - Finer speed slider
2045 - Improvements on many dialogs
2046 - New dialog for plugins listing
2047 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2048 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2049 * Better integration in GTK environments
2052 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2053 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2054 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2055 * Additional usability improvements
2058 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2059 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2060 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2061 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2062 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2065 * New Maemo port with:
2066 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2067 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2070 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2073 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2074 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2075 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2076 * Support for latest iSight models
2079 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2080 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2083 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2084 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2085 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2086 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2087 The old image video output has been removed.
2088 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2089 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2092 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2100 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2101 --------------------------------------
2107 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2108 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2109 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2110 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2111 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2112 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2113 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2115 Various fixes to the following modules:
2118 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2119 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2120 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2122 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2127 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2128 ---------------------------------
2131 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2132 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2135 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2136 ---------------------------------
2139 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2142 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2145 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2146 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2147 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2148 main controller window.
2149 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2152 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2157 * Updates of other localizations
2160 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2161 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2162 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2163 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2164 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2167 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2168 ---------------------------------
2171 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2173 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2176 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2177 --------------------------------
2182 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2183 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2186 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2187 --------------------------------
2189 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2190 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2193 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2196 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2197 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2200 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2201 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2204 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2205 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2206 * Various fixed in playlist
2209 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2212 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2215 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2216 ------------------------------------
2218 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2219 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2222 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2223 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2224 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2227 * Stability fix for the video output.
2230 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2231 --------------------------------
2234 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2235 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2236 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2237 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2238 * Fixed update system bugs
2239 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2242 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2243 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2244 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2245 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2246 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2247 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2248 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2249 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2250 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2251 modern Mac OS X versions
2254 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2255 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2257 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2258 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2261 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2262 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2263 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2264 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2265 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2266 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2269 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2270 --------------------------------
2272 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2273 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2274 * Multiple bugfixes.
2277 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2278 --------------------------------
2280 * Multiple bug fixes.
2283 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2284 ---------------------------------
2288 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2289 recent to work correctly
2290 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2291 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2292 edit the ".hosts" file.
2293 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2294 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2295 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2296 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2297 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2298 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2299 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2300 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2301 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2302 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2303 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2304 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2305 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2306 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2307 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2308 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2309 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2310 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2311 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2312 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2313 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2314 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2315 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2316 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2317 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2318 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2319 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2320 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2321 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2322 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2323 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2324 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2325 and postproc modules.
2326 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2327 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2328 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2329 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2331 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2332 filter. For example:
2333 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2334 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2336 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2337 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2343 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2345 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2346 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2349 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2350 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2352 * Shoutcast TV listings
2353 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2355 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2356 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2358 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2361 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2362 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2363 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2364 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2365 * JACK audio input support
2366 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2367 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2368 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2369 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2370 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2371 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2372 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2373 (available as a separate download).
2374 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2375 * RTMP input support
2376 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2377 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2378 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2380 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2381 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2384 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2385 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2386 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2387 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2389 * APEv1/2 tags support
2390 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2391 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2393 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2394 * TiVo Series 2 support
2395 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2400 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2401 * Flash Screen Video support
2402 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2403 * DosBox Capture support
2404 * Karl Morton's Video support
2405 * limited atrac3 support
2407 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2408 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2409 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2410 * H.264 PAFF support
2411 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2412 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2413 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2414 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2415 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2418 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2419 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2420 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2421 * AQTitle subtitles support
2422 * MKV USF subtitles support
2423 * HTML-based subtitles support
2424 * MPSub subtitles support
2425 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2426 * MPL2 subtitles support
2427 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2428 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2429 * Realtext subtitle support
2430 * DKS subtitle support
2431 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2432 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2435 * Flash Screen Video support
2436 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2438 Video outputs and filters:
2439 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2440 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2441 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2442 * New puzzle video output filter
2443 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2444 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2446 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2447 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2448 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2449 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2450 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2451 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2452 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2453 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2454 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2455 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2456 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2457 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2458 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2459 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2461 Audio outputs and filters:
2462 * Replay gain support
2463 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2464 new scaletempo audio filter)
2465 * New spatializer audio filter
2466 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2469 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2470 * New RTP payload formats:
2471 * Speex voice audio codec
2472 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2473 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2474 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2475 * DCCP transport for RTP
2476 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2481 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2482 end-user suitable way.
2483 * Improved user interaction
2484 * Improved mouse gestures
2485 * Vastly improved Update checker
2486 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2488 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2489 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2491 * Improved video output features
2492 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2493 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2494 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2495 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2496 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2498 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2499 if libncursesw is available.
2500 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2501 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2502 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2504 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2505 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2506 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2507 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2508 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2509 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2510 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2511 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2514 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2515 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2516 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2519 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2520 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2521 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2522 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2523 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2524 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2527 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2528 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2538 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2539 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2540 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2543 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2544 ----------------------------------
2547 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2550 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2551 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2552 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2553 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2554 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2555 * Updated Polish translation
2558 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2559 ----------------------------------
2562 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2563 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2564 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2567 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2568 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2569 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2570 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2571 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2572 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2573 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2574 to an unexpected application termination
2575 * New Serbian translation
2576 * Updated Romanian translation
2579 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2580 ----------------------------------
2583 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2584 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2585 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2586 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2587 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2588 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2589 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2590 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2593 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2594 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2595 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2596 * Fixed AAC resampling
2597 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2598 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2601 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2602 ----------------------------------
2605 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2606 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2607 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2608 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2609 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2612 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2613 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2614 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2615 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2616 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2619 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2620 ----------------------------------
2623 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2624 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2627 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2628 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2629 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2630 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2632 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2636 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2639 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2642 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2645 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2648 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2649 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2650 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2651 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2652 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2654 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2655 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2656 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2657 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2660 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2663 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2664 ----------------------------------
2667 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2668 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2669 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2671 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2672 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2674 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2675 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2678 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2680 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2681 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2682 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2683 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2684 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2685 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2686 two different movies
2687 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2688 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2689 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2692 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2695 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2696 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2697 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2698 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2701 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2702 ----------------------------------
2704 Various bugfixes, notably:
2705 * Windows Vista compatibility
2706 * Cropping in Direct3D
2707 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2708 * RSS filter string overflow
2710 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2712 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2713 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2716 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2717 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2720 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2723 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2726 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2729 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2730 ----------------------------------
2732 Various bugfixes, notably:
2733 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2734 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2735 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2736 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2737 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2738 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2741 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2742 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2745 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2747 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2748 * Diverse usability improvements
2749 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2750 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2751 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2754 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2755 ---------------------------------
2757 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2758 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2761 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2764 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2765 --------------------------------
2768 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2771 * Support for RTSP authentication
2772 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2773 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2774 * ATSC support for DVB input
2775 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2776 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2777 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2780 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2781 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2782 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2783 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2784 * Matroska WavPack support
2785 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2786 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2787 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2790 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2791 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2792 * Improved libcaca support
2796 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2797 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2799 * Systray support in skins
2801 * Support for Apple Remote control
2802 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2803 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2804 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2805 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2807 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2810 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2811 Windows 9x/ME users:
2812 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2813 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2814 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2815 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2816 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2818 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2819 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2828 * Updates to the libvlc API
2829 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2832 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2833 --------------------------------
2836 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2837 * Support for downloading updates
2841 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2842 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2843 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2844 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2846 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2847 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2848 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2851 * Cook (Real audio) support
2853 Playlist / Services discovery:
2854 * XSPF playlist support
2856 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2859 * New JACK audio output
2862 * New video filters:
2863 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2864 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2865 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2866 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2867 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2868 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2871 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2874 * System to inform the user and request information
2875 - HTTP authentication
2879 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2880 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2881 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2884 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2885 - Improved playlist handling
2886 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2888 - Embedded Video output
2889 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2890 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2891 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2892 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2893 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2895 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2896 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2899 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2902 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2903 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2904 * Growl "Now playing" support
2907 * Ability to log to syslog
2908 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2911 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2913 * A bit more automatic testing
2916 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2917 ---------------------------------
2920 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2921 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2924 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2925 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2928 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2931 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2932 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2938 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2941 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2942 --------------------------------
2945 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2949 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2950 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2951 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2954 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2955 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2956 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2957 * GnomeVFS input module
2958 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2959 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2962 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2963 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2964 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2967 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2968 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2974 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2975 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2978 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2979 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2980 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2983 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2985 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2986 - New extended controls panel
2987 - New bookmarks window
2988 - Fixed playlist sorting
2989 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2991 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2992 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2993 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2994 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2998 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2999 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3001 - Include macro to include other files
3005 * Should now work outside IE as well
3008 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3011 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3012 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3015 The following languages were added:
3019 * Simplified Chinese
3020 The following languages were re-added:
3024 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3025 --------------------------------
3028 * Rewrite of the playlist
3030 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3031 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3032 * Preferences improvements:
3033 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3034 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3036 * Core image manipulation support
3037 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3038 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3039 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3040 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3041 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3042 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3043 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3044 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3045 * Access filter architecture
3046 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3047 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3051 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3052 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3053 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3054 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3055 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3056 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3057 * Massive Matroska improvements
3058 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3060 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3061 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3062 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3063 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3064 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3066 Decoders / Encoders:
3067 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3068 * PNG decoder/encoder
3069 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3070 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3073 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3076 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3077 * Brand new SAP module
3078 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3079 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3080 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3081 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3082 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3083 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3087 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3090 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3091 * Image file video output (png)
3092 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3093 * Improvements to wall video filter
3094 * Support for font color and opacity
3100 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3101 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3102 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3106 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3107 - Improved preferences
3108 - Improvements to the wizard
3109 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3111 - Redesigned playlist
3112 - Improved preferences
3114 - Support for multiple actions
3117 - Support for the new playlist system
3119 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3122 * Screensaver disabling fix
3123 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3124 * Support for no-decoration windows
3127 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3128 * The OpenGL video output is back
3129 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3130 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3131 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3132 is not yet available in the new module
3133 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3136 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3145 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3148 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3151 The following languages were added:
3157 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3158 --------------------------------
3161 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3162 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3165 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3166 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3167 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3170 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3173 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3176 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3179 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3180 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3181 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3185 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3187 * Support of playlist group announcement
3190 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3191 --------------------------------
3194 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3195 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3196 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3197 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3198 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3199 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3202 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3203 (Stream your desktop)
3204 * Improved DVD support:
3205 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3206 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3207 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3208 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3209 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3210 (selection of titles/chapters).
3213 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3214 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3215 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3216 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3217 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3218 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3219 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3220 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3221 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3222 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3225 * G.726 audio support
3226 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3227 * MPEG-4 text support
3228 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3229 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3230 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3234 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3235 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3236 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3237 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3238 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3239 * DVB subtitles encoder
3240 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3241 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3243 * Text track muxing for mp4
3244 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3245 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3246 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3247 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3248 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3249 * Improved ASF muxer
3251 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3252 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3253 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3256 * New audio equalizer filter
3257 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3258 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3259 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3260 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3263 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3264 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3265 with support for effects.
3266 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3267 - New filters can be streamed.
3268 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3269 - Centralized scaling and blending
3271 - "time", to display current time
3272 - "marq", to display a marquee
3275 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3276 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3277 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3278 * A few skins2 improvements
3279 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3280 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3281 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3282 * Improved CORBA control module
3285 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3286 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3287 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3290 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3291 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3292 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3295 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3296 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3297 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3298 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3299 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3302 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3305 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3306 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3309 * Server/client network synchronization module
3310 * VBrick streams fully supported
3311 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3315 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3316 --------------------------------
3319 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3320 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3321 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3322 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3325 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3326 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3327 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3328 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3329 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3330 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3331 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3334 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3335 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3336 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3337 * Improved directory access module.
3338 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3339 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3340 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3341 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3342 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3345 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3346 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3347 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3350 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3351 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3352 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3355 * Improved session announcement system.
3356 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3357 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3358 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3359 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3360 * Improved transrater.
3361 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3362 * New configuration system.
3363 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3366 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3367 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3368 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3369 * Supports scheduling.
3370 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3371 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3374 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3375 - Ability to embed video output.
3376 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3377 - Lots of improvements.
3378 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3379 - New design and set of icons.
3380 - Ability to embed video output.
3381 - Support for hotkeys.
3382 - Support for bookmarks.
3384 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3385 - Better hotkeys handling.
3388 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3389 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3390 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3391 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3394 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3395 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3396 * Improved Windows installer.
3402 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3403 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3406 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3407 ---------------------------------
3410 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3411 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3414 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3415 --------------------------------
3418 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3419 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3422 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3423 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3424 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3425 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3428 * Internal improvments
3429 * Improved import/export
3432 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3434 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3435 small and strange formats.
3437 * New MOD audio demux.
3438 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3439 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3440 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3441 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3444 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3445 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3446 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3452 * New opengl video output plugin.
3455 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3456 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3459 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3460 --------------------------------
3463 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3464 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3465 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3466 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3467 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3468 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3469 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3470 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3473 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3478 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3479 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3480 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3481 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3482 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3483 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3484 * Better Icecast support.
3485 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3486 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3489 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3490 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3491 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3492 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3493 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3494 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3495 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3498 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3499 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3500 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3501 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3502 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3503 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3504 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3505 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3506 * Preliminary RTP support.
3507 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3512 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3513 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3515 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3516 - Improvements and help in preferences
3517 - New streaming wizard
3518 - Revised Disc Open menu
3520 - Improvements of the standard pages
3521 - Support for new commands
3522 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3525 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3526 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3529 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3530 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3531 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3532 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3533 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3534 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3535 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3536 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3537 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3540 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3542 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3543 * Support for Panther.
3544 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3545 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3548 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3549 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3550 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3551 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3552 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3553 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3554 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3555 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3558 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3559 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3560 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3563 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3566 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3567 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3568 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3569 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3572 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3573 --------------------------------
3576 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3579 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3580 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3583 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3584 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3587 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3590 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3591 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3594 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3597 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3600 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3601 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3605 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3606 --------------------------------
3609 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3610 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3614 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3615 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3616 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3618 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3619 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3622 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3625 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3628 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3629 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3633 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3634 --------------------------------
3637 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3638 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3642 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3643 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3644 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3645 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3646 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3649 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3650 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3651 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3654 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3655 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3656 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3659 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3660 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3661 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3662 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3663 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3666 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3667 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3668 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3671 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3674 * Improved build system.
3675 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3676 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3677 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3678 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3681 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3682 --------------------------------
3685 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3688 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3689 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3690 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3691 * Video 4 Linux support
3692 * CD Digital Audio support
3693 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3696 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3697 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3698 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3699 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3702 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3703 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3704 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3705 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3706 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3707 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3708 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3711 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3712 * New HTTP remote control interface
3715 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3716 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3717 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3718 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3719 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3722 * New reset option for the preferences
3723 * You can set your language in the prefences
3724 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3725 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3726 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3727 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3730 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3731 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3732 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3735 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3736 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3737 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3738 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3739 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3740 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3741 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3742 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3743 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3744 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3747 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3748 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3749 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3750 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3751 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3752 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3753 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3756 * Interface localization
3757 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3758 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3759 * New full-featured Preferences window
3762 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3763 --------------------------------
3766 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3767 * support for skins at the interface level
3768 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3769 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3770 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3771 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3772 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3775 * fixed HTTP redirects
3776 * support for opening an entire directory
3777 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3778 * new video4linux access plug-in
3779 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3782 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3783 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3784 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3787 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3788 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3789 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3790 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3791 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3792 * new codec for raw I420 video
3793 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3796 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3797 (although it still misses some important features)
3798 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3801 * new HTTP output support
3802 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3803 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3806 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3809 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3812 * reorderable playlist
3813 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3814 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3815 * support for mono audio output devices
3816 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3817 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3818 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3819 * the messages window remembers more lines
3820 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3821 * http and ogg stream output options
3822 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3825 * new skinnable interface
3826 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3828 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3829 * support for FLAC audio format
3830 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3832 * network tab in the interface
3833 * "apply" handling in preferences
3836 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3837 ---------------------------------
3840 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3841 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3842 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3843 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3845 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3846 * DTS S/PDIF support
3849 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3850 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3851 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3852 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3855 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3856 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3859 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3862 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3865 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3867 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3868 * rc interface is now fully useable
3869 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3872 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3873 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3874 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3875 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3876 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3878 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3879 * support for mouse gestures
3880 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3883 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3884 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3887 * improved ID3 tag detection
3888 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3889 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3890 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3892 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3895 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3896 ---------------------------------
3899 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3900 English was set as the preferred language
3903 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3904 --------------------------------
3907 * new mouse gesture interface
3908 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3912 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3913 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3914 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3917 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3918 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3922 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3925 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3926 without the user consent
3929 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3931 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3932 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3933 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3936 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3937 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3938 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3939 * playlist enhancements
3940 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3941 * new step forward/step backward commands
3942 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3943 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3944 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3947 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3948 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3949 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3952 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3953 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3956 * native video output is working again
3957 * only commandline interface support
3958 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3961 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3962 --------------------------------
3965 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3966 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3967 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3968 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3969 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3970 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3971 and A/52 streams are supported)
3972 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3977 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3978 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3979 * VCD entry points support
3980 * VCD image file support
3983 * support for *.asf format
3984 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3985 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3986 * support for ogg encapsulation
3987 * support for raw DV format
3988 * support for *.wav format
3989 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3992 Stream discovery & playlists:
3993 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3994 * support for .m3u file format
3995 * support for .asx file format
3996 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3999 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4000 (only available with the .avi demux)
4001 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4002 * support for raw PCM data
4003 * support for Cinepak video codec
4004 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4005 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4006 * support for Xvid codec
4007 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4008 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4009 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4011 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4013 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4016 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4019 * new WxWindows interface
4020 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4021 device and the channels configuration
4022 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4023 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4024 format that VLC can play
4025 * new swedish translation
4026 * enhancements of the playlist window
4027 * new messages window to see debug info
4028 * fixed a few crashes
4031 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4032 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4033 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4034 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working