3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet)
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
12 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
13 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
14 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
15 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
16 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
17 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
19 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
25 * Vastly improved playlist support:
26 * Media library support
28 * Shoutcast TV listings
29 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
32 * VP60/VP61 codecs support
35 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splitted into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
36 and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
37 * New puzzle video output filter
38 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
39 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a video)
43 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
45 * Improved user interaction
48 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
49 --------------------------------
52 * Shoutcast TV listings support
55 * Support for RTSP authentication
56 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
57 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
58 * ATSC support for DVB input
59 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
60 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
61 * Improved support for Flash Video files
64 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
65 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
66 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
67 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
68 * Matroska WavPack support
69 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
70 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
71 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
74 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
75 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
76 * Improved libcaca support
80 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
81 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
83 * Systray support in skins
85 * Support for Apple Remote control
86 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
87 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
88 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
89 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
91 * Notifications using notification-daemon
94 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
96 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
97 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
98 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
99 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
100 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
102 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
103 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
112 * Updates to the libvlc API
113 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
117 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
118 ---------------------------------
121 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
122 * Support for downloading updates
126 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
127 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
128 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
129 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
131 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
132 * Improved subtitles encoding support
133 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
136 * Cook (Real audio) support
138 Playlist / Services discovery:
139 * XSPF playlist support
141 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
144 * New JACK audio output
148 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
149 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
150 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
151 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
152 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
153 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
156 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
159 * System to inform the user and request information
160 - HTTP authentication
164 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
165 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
166 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
169 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
170 - Improved playlist handling
171 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
173 - Embedded Video output
174 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
175 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
176 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
177 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
178 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
180 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
181 - A bunch of new RPN functions
184 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
187 * Mac-Intel compatibility
188 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
189 * Growl "Now playing" support
192 * Ability to log to syslog
193 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
196 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
198 * A bit more automatic testing
200 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
201 ---------------------------------
204 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
205 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
208 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
209 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
212 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
215 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
216 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
222 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
224 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
225 --------------------------------
228 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
232 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
233 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
234 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
237 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
238 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
239 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
240 * GnomeVFS input module
241 * Support for RTP packet reordering
242 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
245 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
246 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
247 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
250 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
251 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
257 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
258 Mixer and Dolby Surround
261 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
262 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
263 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
266 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
268 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
269 - New extended controls panel
270 - New bookmarks window
271 - Fixed playlist sorting
272 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
274 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
275 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
276 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
277 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
281 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
282 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
284 - Include macro to include other files
288 * Should now work outside IE as well
291 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
294 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
295 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
298 The following languages were added:
303 The following languages were re-added:
306 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
307 --------------------------------
310 * Rewrite of the playlist
312 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
313 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
314 * Preferences improvements:
315 - New organization, designed to improve usability
316 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
318 * Core image manipulation support
319 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
320 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
321 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
322 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
323 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
324 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
325 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
326 now separated by ':' instead of ','
327 * Access filter architecture
328 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
329 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
333 * Support for SOCKS proxy
334 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
335 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
336 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
337 * Better support for Kasenna streams
338 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
339 * Massive Matroska improvements
340 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
342 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
343 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
344 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
345 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
346 * Support for FTP over IPv6
349 * Dirac decoder and encoder
350 * PNG decoder/encoder
351 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
352 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
355 * New Record and Timeshift filters
358 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
359 * Brand new SAP module
360 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
361 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
362 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
363 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
364 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
365 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
369 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
372 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
373 * Image file video output (png)
374 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
375 * Improvements to wall video filter
376 * Support for font color and opacity
382 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
383 - Seeking support in VoD streams
384 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
388 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
389 - Improved preferences
390 - Improvements to the wizard
391 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
393 - Redesigned playlist
394 - Improved preferences
396 - Support for multiple actions
399 - Support for the new playlist system
401 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
404 * Screensaver disabling fix
405 * DirectShow tuner configuration
406 * Support for no-decoration windows
409 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
410 * The OpenGL video output is back
411 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
412 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
413 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
414 is not yet available in the new module
415 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
418 * Support for single-buffered overlay
427 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
430 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
433 The following languages were added:
439 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
440 -----------------------------------------------------
443 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
444 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
447 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
448 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
449 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
452 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
455 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
458 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
461 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
462 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
463 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
467 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
469 * Support of playlist group announcement
471 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
472 -----------------------------------------------------
475 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
476 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
477 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
478 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
479 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
480 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
483 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
484 (Stream your desktop)
485 * Improved DVD support:
486 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
487 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
488 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
489 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
490 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
491 (selection of titles/chapters).
494 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
495 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
496 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
497 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
498 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
499 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
500 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
501 * Improved Ogg demuxer
502 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
503 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
506 * G.726 audio support
507 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
508 * MPEG-4 text support
509 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
510 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
511 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
515 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
516 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
517 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
518 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
519 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
520 * DVB subtitles encoder
521 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
522 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
524 * Text track muxing for mp4
525 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
526 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
527 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
528 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
529 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
532 * H.263 RTP streaming support
533 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
534 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
537 * New audio equalizer filter
538 * Very trivial volume normalizer
539 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
540 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
541 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
544 * Roku HD1000 Video output
545 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
546 with support for effects.
547 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
548 - New filters can be streamed.
549 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
550 - Centralized scaling and blending
552 - "time", to display current time
553 - "marq", to display a marquee
556 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
557 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
558 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
559 * A few skins2 improvements
560 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
561 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
562 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
563 * Improved CORBA control module
566 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
567 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
568 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
571 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
572 * Experimental SVG rendering module
573 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
576 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
577 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
578 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
579 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
580 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
583 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
586 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
587 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
590 * Server/client network synchronization module
591 * VBrick streams fully supported
592 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
595 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
596 --------------------------------
599 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
600 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
601 * Improved HTTP daemon.
602 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
605 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
606 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
607 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
608 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
609 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
610 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
611 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
614 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
615 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
616 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
617 * Improved directory access module.
618 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
619 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
620 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
621 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
622 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
625 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
626 * mmsh streaming fixes.
627 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
630 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
631 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
632 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
635 * Improved session announcement system.
636 * Minimize threads usage by default.
637 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
638 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
639 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
640 * Improved transrater.
641 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
642 * New configuration system.
643 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
646 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
647 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
648 * Supports live streams and VoD.
649 * Supports scheduling.
650 * Telnet interface for vlm.
651 * HTTP interface for vlm.
654 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
655 - Ability to embed video output.
656 - Support for bitmap fonts.
657 - Lots of improvements.
658 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
659 - New design and set of icons.
660 - Ability to embed video output.
661 - Support for hotkeys.
662 - Support for bookmarks.
664 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
665 - Better hotkeys handling.
668 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
669 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
670 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
671 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
674 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
675 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
676 * Improved Windows installer.
682 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
683 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
685 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
686 ---------------------------------
689 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
690 * Playing MOD files is working now.
693 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
694 ---------------------------------
697 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
698 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
701 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
702 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
703 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
704 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
707 * Internal improvments
708 * Improved import/export
711 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
713 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
714 small and strange formats.
716 * New MOD audio demux.
717 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
718 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
719 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
720 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
723 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
724 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
725 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
731 * New opengl video output plugin.
734 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
735 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
737 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
738 ---------------------------------
741 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
742 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
743 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
744 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
745 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
746 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
747 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
748 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
751 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
756 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
757 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
758 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
759 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
760 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
761 * Reworked DVB tuning.
762 * Better Icecast support.
763 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
764 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
767 * Support for Theora video encoding.
768 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
769 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
770 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
771 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
772 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
773 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
776 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
777 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
778 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
779 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
780 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
781 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
782 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
783 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
784 * Preliminary RTP support.
785 * Fixes to SAP announces.
790 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
791 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
793 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
794 - Improvements and help in preferences
795 - New streaming wizard
796 - Revised Disc Open menu
798 - Improvements of the standard pages
799 - Support for new commands
800 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
803 * Many fixes to the SAP module
804 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
807 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
808 * Text subtitles autodetection.
809 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
810 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
811 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
812 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
813 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
814 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
815 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
818 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
820 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
821 * Support for Panther.
822 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
823 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
826 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
827 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
828 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
829 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
830 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
831 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
832 * Multimonitor support (untested).
833 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
836 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
837 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
838 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
841 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
844 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
845 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
846 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
847 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
849 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
850 ---------------------------------
853 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
856 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
857 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
860 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
861 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
864 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
867 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
868 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
871 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
874 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
877 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
878 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
881 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
882 ---------------------------------
885 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
886 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
890 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
891 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
892 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
894 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
895 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
898 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
901 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
904 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
905 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
908 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
909 ---------------------------------
912 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
913 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
917 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
918 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
919 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
920 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
921 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
924 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
925 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
926 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
929 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
930 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
931 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
934 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
935 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
936 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
937 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
938 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
941 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
942 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
943 * A new CORBA control plugin.
946 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
949 * Improved build system.
950 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
951 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
952 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
953 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
956 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
957 ---------------------------------
960 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
963 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
964 * Fixed large file support on Windows
965 * Video 4 Linux support
966 * CD Digital Audio support
967 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
970 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
971 * Support for OpenDML avi files
972 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
973 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
976 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
977 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
978 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
979 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
980 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
981 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
982 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
985 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
986 * New HTTP remote control interface
989 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
990 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
991 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
992 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
995 * New reset option for the preferences
996 * You can set your language in the prefences
997 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
998 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
999 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1000 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1003 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1004 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1005 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1008 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1009 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1010 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1011 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1012 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1013 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1014 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1015 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1016 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1017 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1020 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1021 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1022 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1023 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1024 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1025 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1026 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1029 * Interface localization
1030 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1031 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1032 * New full-featured Preferences window
1034 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1035 ---------------------------------
1038 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1039 * support for skins at the interface level
1040 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1041 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1042 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1043 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1044 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1047 * fixed HTTP redirects
1048 * support for opening an entire directory
1049 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1050 * new video4linux access plug-in
1051 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1054 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1055 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1056 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1059 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1060 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1061 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1062 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1063 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1064 * new codec for raw I420 video
1065 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1068 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1069 (although it still misses some important features)
1070 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1073 * new HTTP output support
1074 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1075 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1078 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1081 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1084 * reorderable playlist
1085 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1086 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1087 * support for mono audio output devices
1088 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1089 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1090 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1091 * the messages window remembers more lines
1092 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1093 * http and ogg stream output options
1094 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1097 * new skinnable interface
1098 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1100 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1101 * support for FLAC audio format
1102 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1104 * network tab in the interface
1105 * "apply" handling in preferences
1108 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1109 ---------------------------------
1112 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1113 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1114 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1115 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1117 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1118 * DTS S/PDIF support
1121 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1122 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1123 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1124 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1127 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1128 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1131 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1134 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1137 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1139 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1140 * rc interface is now fully useable
1141 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1144 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1145 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1146 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1147 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1148 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1150 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1151 * support for mouse gestures
1152 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1155 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1156 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1159 * improved ID3 tag detection
1160 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1161 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1162 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1164 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1167 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1168 ---------------------------------
1171 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1172 English was set as the preferred language
1175 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1176 --------------------------------
1179 * new mouse gesture interface
1180 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1184 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1185 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1186 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1189 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1190 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1194 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1197 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1198 without the user consent
1201 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1203 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1204 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1205 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1208 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1209 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1210 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1211 * playlist enhancements
1212 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1213 * new step forward/step backward commands
1214 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1215 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1216 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1219 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1220 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1221 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1224 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1225 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1228 * native video output is working again
1229 * only commandline interface support
1230 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1233 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1234 --------------------------------
1237 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1238 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1239 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1240 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1241 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1242 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1243 and A/52 streams are supported)
1244 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1249 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1250 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1251 * VCD entry points support
1252 * VCD image file support
1255 * support for *.asf format
1256 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1257 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1258 * support for ogg encapsulation
1259 * support for raw DV format
1260 * support for *.wav format
1261 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1264 Stream discovery & playlists:
1265 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1266 * support for .m3u file format
1267 * support for .asx file format
1268 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1271 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1272 (only available with the .avi demux)
1273 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1274 * support for raw PCM data
1275 * support for Cinepak video codec
1276 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1277 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1278 * support for Xvid codec
1279 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1280 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1281 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1283 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1285 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1288 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1291 * new WxWindows interface
1292 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1293 device and the channels configuration
1294 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1295 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1296 format that VLC can play
1297 * new swedish translation
1298 * enhancements of the playlist window
1299 * new messages window to see debug info
1300 * fixed a few crashes
1303 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1304 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1305 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1306 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working