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
24 * Vastly improved playlist support:
25 * Media library support
27 * Shoutcast TV listings
28 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
31 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splitted into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
32 and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
33 * New puzzle video output filter
37 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
39 * Improved user interaction
42 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
43 --------------------------------
46 * Shoutcast TV listings support
49 * Support for RTSP authentication
50 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
51 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
52 * ATSC support for DVB input
53 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
54 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
55 * Improved support for Flash Video files
58 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
59 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
60 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
61 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
62 * Matroska WavPack support
63 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
64 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
65 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
68 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
69 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
70 * Improved libcaca support
74 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
75 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
77 * Systray support in skins
79 * Support for Apple Remote control
80 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
81 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
82 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
83 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
85 * Notifications using notification-daemon
88 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
90 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
91 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
92 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
93 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
94 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
96 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
97 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
106 * Updates to the libvlc API
107 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
111 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
112 ---------------------------------
115 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
116 * Support for downloading updates
120 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
121 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
122 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
123 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
125 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
126 * Improved subtitles encoding support
127 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
130 * Cook (Real audio) support
132 Playlist / Services discovery:
133 * XSPF playlist support
135 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
138 * New JACK audio output
142 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
143 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
144 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
145 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
146 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
147 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
150 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
153 * System to inform the user and request information
154 - HTTP authentication
158 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
159 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
160 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
163 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
164 - Improved playlist handling
165 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
167 - Embedded Video output
168 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
169 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
170 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
171 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
172 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
174 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
175 - A bunch of new RPN functions
178 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
181 * Mac-Intel compatibility
182 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
183 * Growl "Now playing" support
186 * Ability to log to syslog
187 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
190 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
192 * A bit more automatic testing
194 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
195 ---------------------------------
198 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
199 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
202 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
203 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
206 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
209 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
210 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
216 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
218 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
219 --------------------------------
222 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
226 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
227 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
228 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
231 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
232 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
233 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
234 * GnomeVFS input module
235 * Support for RTP packet reordering
236 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
239 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
240 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
241 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
244 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
245 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
251 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
252 Mixer and Dolby Surround
255 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
256 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
257 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
260 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
262 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
263 - New extended controls panel
264 - New bookmarks window
265 - Fixed playlist sorting
266 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
268 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
269 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
270 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
271 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
275 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
276 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
278 - Include macro to include other files
282 * Should now work outside IE as well
285 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
288 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
289 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
292 The following languages were added:
297 The following languages were re-added:
300 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
301 --------------------------------
304 * Rewrite of the playlist
306 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
307 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
308 * Preferences improvements:
309 - New organization, designed to improve usability
310 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
312 * Core image manipulation support
313 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
314 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
315 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
316 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
317 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
318 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
319 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
320 now separated by ':' instead of ','
321 * Access filter architecture
322 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
323 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
327 * Support for SOCKS proxy
328 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
329 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
330 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
331 * Better support for Kasenna streams
332 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
333 * Massive Matroska improvements
334 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
336 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
337 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
338 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
339 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
340 * Support for FTP over IPv6
343 * Dirac decoder and encoder
344 * PNG decoder/encoder
345 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
346 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
349 * New Record and Timeshift filters
352 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
353 * Brand new SAP module
354 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
355 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
356 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
357 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
358 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
359 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
363 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
366 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
367 * Image file video output (png)
368 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
369 * Improvements to wall video filter
370 * Support for font color and opacity
376 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
377 - Seeking support in VoD streams
378 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
382 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
383 - Improved preferences
384 - Improvements to the wizard
385 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
387 - Redesigned playlist
388 - Improved preferences
390 - Support for multiple actions
393 - Support for the new playlist system
395 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
398 * Screensaver disabling fix
399 * DirectShow tuner configuration
400 * Support for no-decoration windows
403 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
404 * The OpenGL video output is back
405 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
406 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
407 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
408 is not yet available in the new module
409 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
412 * Support for single-buffered overlay
421 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
424 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
427 The following languages were added:
433 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
434 -----------------------------------------------------
437 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
438 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
441 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
442 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
443 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
446 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
449 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
452 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
455 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
456 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
457 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
461 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
463 * Support of playlist group announcement
465 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
466 -----------------------------------------------------
469 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
470 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
471 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
472 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
473 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
474 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
477 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
478 (Stream your desktop)
479 * Improved DVD support:
480 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
481 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
482 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
483 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
484 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
485 (selection of titles/chapters).
488 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
489 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
490 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
491 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
492 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
493 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
494 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
495 * Improved Ogg demuxer
496 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
497 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
500 * G.726 audio support
501 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
502 * MPEG-4 text support
503 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
504 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
505 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
509 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
510 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
511 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
512 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
513 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
514 * DVB subtitles encoder
515 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
516 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
518 * Text track muxing for mp4
519 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
520 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
521 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
522 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
523 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
526 * H.263 RTP streaming support
527 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
528 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
531 * New audio equalizer filter
532 * Very trivial volume normalizer
533 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
534 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
535 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
538 * Roku HD1000 Video output
539 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
540 with support for effects.
541 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
542 - New filters can be streamed.
543 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
544 - Centralized scaling and blending
546 - "time", to display current time
547 - "marq", to display a marquee
550 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
551 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
552 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
553 * A few skins2 improvements
554 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
555 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
556 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
557 * Improved CORBA control module
560 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
561 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
562 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
565 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
566 * Experimental SVG rendering module
567 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
570 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
571 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
572 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
573 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
574 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
577 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
580 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
581 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
584 * Server/client network synchronization module
585 * VBrick streams fully supported
586 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
589 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
590 --------------------------------
593 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
594 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
595 * Improved HTTP daemon.
596 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
599 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
600 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
601 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
602 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
603 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
604 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
605 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
608 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
609 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
610 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
611 * Improved directory access module.
612 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
613 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
614 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
615 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
616 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
619 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
620 * mmsh streaming fixes.
621 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
624 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
625 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
626 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
629 * Improved session announcement system.
630 * Minimize threads usage by default.
631 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
632 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
633 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
634 * Improved transrater.
635 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
636 * New configuration system.
637 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
640 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
641 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
642 * Supports live streams and VoD.
643 * Supports scheduling.
644 * Telnet interface for vlm.
645 * HTTP interface for vlm.
648 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
649 - Ability to embed video output.
650 - Support for bitmap fonts.
651 - Lots of improvements.
652 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
653 - New design and set of icons.
654 - Ability to embed video output.
655 - Support for hotkeys.
656 - Support for bookmarks.
658 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
659 - Better hotkeys handling.
662 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
663 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
664 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
665 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
668 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
669 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
670 * Improved Windows installer.
676 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
677 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
679 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
680 ---------------------------------
683 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
684 * Playing MOD files is working now.
687 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
688 ---------------------------------
691 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
692 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
695 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
696 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
697 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
698 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
701 * Internal improvments
702 * Improved import/export
705 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
707 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
708 small and strange formats.
710 * New MOD audio demux.
711 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
712 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
713 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
714 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
717 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
718 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
719 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
725 * New opengl video output plugin.
728 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
729 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
731 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
732 ---------------------------------
735 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
736 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
737 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
738 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
739 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
740 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
741 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
742 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
745 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
750 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
751 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
752 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
753 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
754 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
755 * Reworked DVB tuning.
756 * Better Icecast support.
757 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
758 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
761 * Support for Theora video encoding.
762 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
763 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
764 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
765 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
766 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
767 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
770 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
771 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
772 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
773 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
774 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
775 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
776 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
777 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
778 * Preliminary RTP support.
779 * Fixes to SAP announces.
784 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
785 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
787 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
788 - Improvements and help in preferences
789 - New streaming wizard
790 - Revised Disc Open menu
792 - Improvements of the standard pages
793 - Support for new commands
794 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
797 * Many fixes to the SAP module
798 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
801 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
802 * Text subtitles autodetection.
803 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
804 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
805 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
806 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
807 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
808 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
809 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
812 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
814 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
815 * Support for Panther.
816 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
817 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
820 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
821 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
822 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
823 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
824 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
825 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
826 * Multimonitor support (untested).
827 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
830 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
831 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
832 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
835 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
838 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
839 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
840 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
841 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
843 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
844 ---------------------------------
847 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
850 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
851 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
854 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
855 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
858 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
861 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
862 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
865 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
868 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
871 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
872 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
875 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
876 ---------------------------------
879 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
880 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
884 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
885 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
886 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
888 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
889 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
892 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
895 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
898 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
899 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
902 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
903 ---------------------------------
906 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
907 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
911 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
912 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
913 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
914 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
915 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
918 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
919 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
920 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
923 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
924 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
925 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
928 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
929 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
930 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
931 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
932 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
935 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
936 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
937 * A new CORBA control plugin.
940 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
943 * Improved build system.
944 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
945 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
946 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
947 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
950 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
951 ---------------------------------
954 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
957 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
958 * Fixed large file support on Windows
959 * Video 4 Linux support
960 * CD Digital Audio support
961 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
964 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
965 * Support for OpenDML avi files
966 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
967 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
970 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
971 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
972 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
973 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
974 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
975 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
976 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
979 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
980 * New HTTP remote control interface
983 * 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.
984 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
985 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
986 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
989 * New reset option for the preferences
990 * You can set your language in the prefences
991 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
992 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
993 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
994 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
997 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
998 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
999 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1002 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1003 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1004 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1005 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1006 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1007 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1008 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1009 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1010 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1011 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1014 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1015 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1016 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1017 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1018 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1019 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1020 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1023 * Interface localization
1024 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1025 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1026 * New full-featured Preferences window
1028 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1029 ---------------------------------
1032 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1033 * support for skins at the interface level
1034 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1035 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1036 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1037 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1038 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1041 * fixed HTTP redirects
1042 * support for opening an entire directory
1043 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1044 * new video4linux access plug-in
1045 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1048 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1049 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1050 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1053 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1054 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1055 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1056 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1057 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1058 * new codec for raw I420 video
1059 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1062 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1063 (although it still misses some important features)
1064 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1067 * new HTTP output support
1068 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1069 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1072 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1075 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1078 * reorderable playlist
1079 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1080 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1081 * support for mono audio output devices
1082 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1083 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1084 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1085 * the messages window remembers more lines
1086 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1087 * http and ogg stream output options
1088 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1091 * new skinnable interface
1092 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1094 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1095 * support for FLAC audio format
1096 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1098 * network tab in the interface
1099 * "apply" handling in preferences
1102 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1103 ---------------------------------
1106 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1107 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1108 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1109 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1111 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1112 * DTS S/PDIF support
1115 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1116 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1117 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1118 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1121 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1122 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1125 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1128 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1131 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1133 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1134 * rc interface is now fully useable
1135 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1138 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1139 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1140 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1141 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1142 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1144 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1145 * support for mouse gestures
1146 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1149 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1150 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1153 * improved ID3 tag detection
1154 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1155 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1156 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1158 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1161 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1162 ---------------------------------
1165 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1166 English was set as the preferred language
1169 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1170 --------------------------------
1173 * new mouse gesture interface
1174 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1178 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1179 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1180 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1183 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1184 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1188 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1191 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1192 without the user consent
1195 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1197 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1198 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1199 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1202 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1203 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1204 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1205 * playlist enhancements
1206 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1207 * new step forward/step backward commands
1208 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1209 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1210 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1213 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1214 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1215 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1218 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1219 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1222 * native video output is working again
1223 * only commandline interface support
1224 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1227 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1228 --------------------------------
1231 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1232 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1233 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1234 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1235 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1236 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1237 and A/52 streams are supported)
1238 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1243 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1244 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1245 * VCD entry points support
1246 * VCD image file support
1249 * support for *.asf format
1250 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1251 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1252 * support for ogg encapsulation
1253 * support for raw DV format
1254 * support for *.wav format
1255 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1258 Stream discovery & playlists:
1259 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1260 * support for .m3u file format
1261 * support for .asx file format
1262 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1265 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1266 (only available with the .avi demux)
1267 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1268 * support for raw PCM data
1269 * support for Cinepak video codec
1270 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1271 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1272 * support for Xvid codec
1273 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1274 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1275 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1277 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1279 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1282 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1285 * new WxWindows interface
1286 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1287 device and the channels configuration
1288 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1289 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1290 format that VLC can play
1291 * new swedish translation
1292 * enhancements of the playlist window
1293 * new messages window to see debug info
1294 * fixed a few crashes
1297 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1298 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1299 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1300 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working