1 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
11 * Multiple files are supported from RAR files
12 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
13 * DVB-S scanning support
14 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
15 * Support for VDR recordings
16 * Blu-Ray integration with libbluray
17 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI card input support (Linux only currently)
20 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
21 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback
24 * id3tag plugin is removed (superseded by taglib).
25 * Ogg seeking improvements
28 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
29 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
30 * Qt: effects dialogs reordering
31 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
34 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
37 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
40 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
43 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
44 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
45 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
48 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streamin (iphone-stuff),
49 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
50 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
51 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
52 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
53 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
56 * New capabilities for libVLC:
57 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
60 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
61 ----------------------------------
64 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
66 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
69 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
72 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
73 * Various fixes for Windows
76 * New Armenian translation
77 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
78 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
81 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
82 --------------------------------
85 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
87 * Fix folders opening from the interface
90 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
91 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
94 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
95 --------------------------------
98 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
99 * fix for podcasts parsing
100 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
103 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
104 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
107 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
108 * fix m3u playlists exports
111 * fix video autoresize behaviour
114 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
117 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
120 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
123 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
126 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
127 --------------------------------
130 * Avformat fps displaying fix
131 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
134 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
135 of mono streams, especially on Windows
138 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
139 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
140 * fix console output encoding
142 Interface and extensions:
143 * Youtube and other scripts updates
144 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
147 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
148 --------------------------------
151 * New capabilities for libVLC:
152 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
153 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
154 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
155 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
156 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
157 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
158 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
159 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
160 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
161 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
162 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
163 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
164 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
165 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
166 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
170 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
171 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
172 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
173 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
174 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
177 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
180 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
181 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
182 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
186 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
189 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
190 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
191 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
194 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
195 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
196 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
197 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
200 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
201 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
204 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
205 --------------------------------
207 Important changes for users:
208 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
209 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
211 Important changes for packagers:
212 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
213 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
214 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
215 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
216 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
218 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
220 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
221 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
222 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
223 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
224 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
227 * Support for the sftp protocol
228 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
229 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
230 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
231 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
232 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
235 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
236 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
237 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
239 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
240 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
241 * Invmem module improvements
242 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
243 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
244 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
245 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
246 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
247 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
248 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
249 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
250 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
251 * Support for VP8 codec
252 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
255 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
256 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
257 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
258 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
259 * Various EGP improvements
260 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
261 * Metadata and cover art improvements
264 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
265 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
266 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
267 * Podcast images are now displayed
270 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
271 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
272 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
273 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
274 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
275 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
276 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
277 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
278 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
279 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
280 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
283 * New content extensions lua framework
286 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
287 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
288 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
289 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
290 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
291 * NEON assembly audio converter module
292 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
295 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
296 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
297 * Service discovery based on libudev
298 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
301 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
302 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
303 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
304 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
305 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
306 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
307 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
310 * New smem module, streaming to memory
311 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
312 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
315 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
317 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
318 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
321 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
324 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
325 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
326 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
327 by Andy Matuschak et al.
328 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
329 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
330 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
333 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
334 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
337 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
338 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
339 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
343 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
344 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
345 * Improved Solaris port
348 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
349 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
352 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
353 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
354 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
355 * transrate: broken since too long
356 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
357 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
358 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
359 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
360 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
361 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
362 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
363 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
364 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
365 * cddax: use cdda instead.
366 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
367 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
368 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
369 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
372 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
373 --------------------------------
376 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
378 Decoders/Packetizers:
379 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
382 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
383 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
384 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
385 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
386 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
389 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
390 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
393 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
394 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
397 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
398 and Walloon translations updated
399 * Sinhala translation started
402 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
403 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
406 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
407 --------------------------------
410 * SubRip extra styles improvements
411 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
414 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
417 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
418 increase performance and fix x264 issues
421 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
422 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
423 Russian, Slovak translation updates
424 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
427 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
428 --------------------------------
431 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
432 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
435 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
436 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
439 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
440 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
443 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
446 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
447 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
450 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
451 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
454 * New Walloon translation
455 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
458 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
459 --------------------------------
462 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
463 regressions in most popular drivers
464 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
467 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
468 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
469 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
472 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
473 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
476 * Update for appletrailers lua script
477 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
478 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
479 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
480 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
483 * New udev module for linux
486 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
489 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
492 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
493 --------------------------------
496 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
497 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
498 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
501 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
502 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
505 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
506 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
509 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
512 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
513 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
514 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
515 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
518 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
519 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
520 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
521 - no support for Goom and SDL
522 - limited text rendering support
523 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
526 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
527 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
528 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
529 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
530 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
531 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
532 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
533 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
534 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
538 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
541 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
544 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
545 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
546 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
547 Arabic and French translation updates
550 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
551 --------------------------------
554 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
555 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
556 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
557 * Fix Dailymotion access script
558 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
559 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
562 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
563 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
566 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
567 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
568 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
571 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
574 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
575 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
578 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
579 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
580 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
581 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
582 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
583 * Fix various crashes
586 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
588 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
591 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
592 ---------------------------------
596 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
597 See 'Access:' for more info.
598 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
601 * Instantaneous pausing
602 * Frame-by-Frame playback
603 * Finer speed control
604 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
605 * Timeshift for most medias
606 * RTSP trickplay support
607 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
610 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
611 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
612 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
613 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
614 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
615 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
616 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
617 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
618 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
619 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
622 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
623 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
624 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
625 * Metadata for mod files are supported
626 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
627 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
628 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
631 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
632 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
635 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
636 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
637 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
638 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
639 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
640 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
641 * DVB scanning on linux
642 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
643 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
644 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
645 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
646 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
647 * MTP device access on Unix
648 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
649 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
652 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
653 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
654 Windows and Mac OS X.
657 * Export the playlist in HTML
658 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
659 * Better metadata handling and reading
661 Linux/Windows interface:
662 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
663 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
664 * Recently played items list
665 * Interface toolbar customizations
666 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
669 - Improvements on many dialogs
670 - New dialog for plugins listing
671 - Fixed-size mode for videos
672 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
673 * Better integration in GTK environments
676 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
677 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
678 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
679 * Additional usability improvements
682 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
683 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
684 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
685 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
686 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
689 * New Maemo port with:
690 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
691 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
694 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
697 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
698 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
699 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
700 * Support for latest iSight models
703 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
704 * Surround support for PulseAudio
707 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
708 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
709 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
710 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
711 The old image video output has been removed.
712 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
713 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
716 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
724 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
725 --------------------------------------
731 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
732 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
733 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
734 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
735 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
736 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
737 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
739 Various fixes to the following modules:
742 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
743 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
746 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
751 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
752 ---------------------------------
755 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
756 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
759 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
760 ---------------------------------
763 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
766 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
769 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
770 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
771 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
772 main controller window.
773 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
776 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
781 * Updates of other localizations
784 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
785 * Lots of small bugfixes.
786 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
787 * Telnet fixes on Windows
788 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
791 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
792 ---------------------------------
795 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
797 Bunch of small bugfixes.
800 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
801 --------------------------------
806 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
807 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
810 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
811 --------------------------------
813 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
814 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
817 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
820 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
821 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
824 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
825 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
828 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
829 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
830 * Various fixed in playlist
833 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
836 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
839 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
840 ------------------------------------
842 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
843 * Fixes several memory leaks.
846 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
847 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
848 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
851 * Stability fix for the video output.
854 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
855 --------------------------------
858 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
859 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
860 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
861 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
862 * Fixed update system bugs
863 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
866 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
867 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
868 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
869 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
870 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
871 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
872 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
873 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
874 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
875 modern Mac OS X versions
878 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
879 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
881 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
882 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
885 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
886 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
887 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
888 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
889 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
890 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
893 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
894 --------------------------------
896 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
897 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
901 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
902 --------------------------------
904 * Multiple bug fixes.
907 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
908 ---------------------------------
912 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
913 recent to work correctly
914 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
915 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
916 edit the ".hosts" file.
917 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
918 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
919 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
920 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
921 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
922 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
923 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
924 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
925 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
926 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
927 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
928 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
929 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
930 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
931 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
932 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
933 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
934 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
935 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
936 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
937 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
938 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
939 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
940 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
941 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
942 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
943 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
944 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
945 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
946 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
947 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
948 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
949 and postproc modules.
950 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
951 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
952 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
953 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
955 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
957 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
958 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
960 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
961 * Glide video output module has been removed.
967 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
969 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
970 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
973 * Vastly improved playlist support:
974 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
976 * Shoutcast TV listings
977 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
979 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
980 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
982 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
985 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
986 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
987 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
988 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
989 * JACK audio input support
990 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
991 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
992 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
993 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
994 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
995 * Experimental EyeTV access module
996 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
997 (available as a separate download).
998 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1000 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1001 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1002 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1004 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1005 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1008 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1009 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1010 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1011 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1013 * APEv1/2 tags support
1014 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1015 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1017 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1018 * TiVo Series 2 support
1019 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1024 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1025 * Flash Screen Video support
1026 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1027 * DosBox Capture support
1028 * Karl Morton's Video support
1029 * limited atrac3 support
1031 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1032 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1033 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1034 * H.264 PAFF support
1035 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1036 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1037 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1038 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1039 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1042 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1043 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1044 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1045 * AQTitle subtitles support
1046 * MKV USF subtitles support
1047 * HTML-based subtitles support
1048 * MPSub subtitles support
1049 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1050 * MPL2 subtitles support
1051 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1052 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1053 * Realtext subtitle support
1054 * DKS subtitle support
1055 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1056 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1059 * Flash Screen Video support
1060 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1062 Video outputs and filters:
1063 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1064 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1065 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1066 * New puzzle video output filter
1067 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1068 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1070 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1071 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1072 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1073 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1074 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1075 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1076 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1077 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1078 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1079 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1080 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1081 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1082 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1083 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1085 Audio outputs and filters:
1086 * Replay gain support
1087 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1088 new scaletempo audio filter)
1089 * New spatializer audio filter
1090 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1093 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1094 * New RTP payload formats:
1095 * Speex voice audio codec
1096 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1097 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1098 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1099 * DCCP transport for RTP
1100 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1105 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1106 end-user suitable way.
1107 * Improved user interaction
1108 * Improved mouse gestures
1109 * Vastly improved Update checker
1110 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1112 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1113 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1115 * Improved video output features
1116 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1117 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1118 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1119 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1120 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1122 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1123 if libncursesw is available.
1124 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1125 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1126 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1128 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1129 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1130 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1131 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1132 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1133 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1134 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1135 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1138 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1139 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1140 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1143 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1144 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1145 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1146 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1147 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1148 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1151 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1152 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1162 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1163 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1164 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1167 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1168 ----------------------------------
1171 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1174 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1175 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1176 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1177 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1178 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1179 * Updated Polish translation
1182 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1183 ----------------------------------
1186 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1187 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1188 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1191 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1192 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1193 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1194 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1195 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1196 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1197 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1198 to an unexpected application termination
1199 * New Serbian translation
1200 * Updated Romanian translation
1203 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1204 ----------------------------------
1207 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1208 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1209 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1210 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1211 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1212 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1213 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1214 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1217 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1218 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1219 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1220 * Fixed AAC resampling
1221 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1222 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1225 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1226 ----------------------------------
1229 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1230 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1231 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1232 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1233 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1236 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1237 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1238 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1239 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1240 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1243 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1244 ----------------------------------
1247 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1248 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1251 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1252 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1253 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1254 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1256 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1260 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1263 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1266 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1269 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1272 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1273 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1274 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1275 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1276 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1278 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1279 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1280 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1281 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1284 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1287 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1288 ----------------------------------
1291 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1292 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1293 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1295 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1296 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1298 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1299 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1302 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1304 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1305 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1306 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1307 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1308 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1309 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1310 two different movies
1311 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1312 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1313 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1316 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1319 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1320 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1321 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1322 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1325 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1326 ----------------------------------
1328 Various bugfixes, notably:
1329 * Windows Vista compatibility
1330 * Cropping in Direct3D
1331 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1332 * RSS filter string overflow
1334 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1336 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1337 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1340 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1341 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1344 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1347 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1350 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1353 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1354 ----------------------------------
1356 Various bugfixes, notably:
1357 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1358 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1359 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1360 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1361 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1362 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1365 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1366 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1369 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1371 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1372 * Diverse usability improvements
1373 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1374 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1375 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1378 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1379 ---------------------------------
1381 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1382 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1385 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1388 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1389 --------------------------------
1392 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1395 * Support for RTSP authentication
1396 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1397 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1398 * ATSC support for DVB input
1399 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1400 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1401 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1404 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1405 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1406 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1407 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1408 * Matroska WavPack support
1409 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1410 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1411 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1414 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1415 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1416 * Improved libcaca support
1420 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1421 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1423 * Systray support in skins
1425 * Support for Apple Remote control
1426 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1427 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1428 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1429 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1431 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1434 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1435 Windows 9x/ME users:
1436 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1437 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1438 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1439 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1440 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1442 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1443 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1452 * Updates to the libvlc API
1453 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1456 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1457 --------------------------------
1460 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1461 * Support for downloading updates
1465 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1466 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1467 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1468 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1470 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1471 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1472 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1475 * Cook (Real audio) support
1477 Playlist / Services discovery:
1478 * XSPF playlist support
1480 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1483 * New JACK audio output
1486 * New video filters:
1487 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1488 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1489 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1490 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1491 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1492 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1495 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1498 * System to inform the user and request information
1499 - HTTP authentication
1503 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1504 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1505 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1508 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1509 - Improved playlist handling
1510 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1512 - Embedded Video output
1513 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1514 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1515 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1516 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1517 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1519 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1520 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1523 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1526 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1527 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1528 * Growl "Now playing" support
1531 * Ability to log to syslog
1532 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1535 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1537 * A bit more automatic testing
1540 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1541 ---------------------------------
1544 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1545 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1548 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1549 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1552 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1555 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1556 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1562 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1565 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1566 --------------------------------
1569 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1573 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1574 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1575 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1578 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1579 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1580 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1581 * GnomeVFS input module
1582 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1583 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1586 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1587 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1588 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1591 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1592 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1598 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1599 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1602 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1603 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1604 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1607 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1609 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1610 - New extended controls panel
1611 - New bookmarks window
1612 - Fixed playlist sorting
1613 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1615 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1616 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1617 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1618 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1622 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1623 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1625 - Include macro to include other files
1629 * Should now work outside IE as well
1632 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1635 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1636 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1639 The following languages were added:
1643 * Simplified Chinese
1644 The following languages were re-added:
1648 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1649 --------------------------------
1652 * Rewrite of the playlist
1654 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1655 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1656 * Preferences improvements:
1657 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1658 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1660 * Core image manipulation support
1661 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1662 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1663 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1664 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1665 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1666 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1667 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1668 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1669 * Access filter architecture
1670 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1671 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1675 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1676 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1677 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1678 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1679 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1680 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1681 * Massive Matroska improvements
1682 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1684 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1685 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1686 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1687 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1688 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1690 Decoders / Encoders:
1691 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1692 * PNG decoder/encoder
1693 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1694 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1697 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1700 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1701 * Brand new SAP module
1702 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1703 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1704 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1705 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1706 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1707 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1711 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1714 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1715 * Image file video output (png)
1716 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1717 * Improvements to wall video filter
1718 * Support for font color and opacity
1724 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1725 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1726 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1730 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1731 - Improved preferences
1732 - Improvements to the wizard
1733 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1735 - Redesigned playlist
1736 - Improved preferences
1738 - Support for multiple actions
1741 - Support for the new playlist system
1743 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1746 * Screensaver disabling fix
1747 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1748 * Support for no-decoration windows
1751 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1752 * The OpenGL video output is back
1753 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1754 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1755 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1756 is not yet available in the new module
1757 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1760 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1769 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1772 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1775 The following languages were added:
1781 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1782 --------------------------------
1785 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1786 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1789 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1790 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1791 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1794 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1797 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1800 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1803 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1804 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1805 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1809 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1811 * Support of playlist group announcement
1814 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1815 --------------------------------
1818 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1819 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1820 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1821 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1822 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1823 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1826 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1827 (Stream your desktop)
1828 * Improved DVD support:
1829 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1830 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1831 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1832 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1833 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1834 (selection of titles/chapters).
1837 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1838 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1839 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1840 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1841 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1842 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1843 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1844 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1845 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1846 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1849 * G.726 audio support
1850 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1851 * MPEG-4 text support
1852 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1853 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1854 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1858 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1859 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1860 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1861 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1862 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1863 * DVB subtitles encoder
1864 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1865 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1867 * Text track muxing for mp4
1868 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1869 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1870 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1871 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1872 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1873 * Improved ASF muxer
1875 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1876 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1877 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1880 * New audio equalizer filter
1881 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1882 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1883 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1884 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1887 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1888 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1889 with support for effects.
1890 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1891 - New filters can be streamed.
1892 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1893 - Centralized scaling and blending
1895 - "time", to display current time
1896 - "marq", to display a marquee
1899 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1900 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1901 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1902 * A few skins2 improvements
1903 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1904 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1905 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1906 * Improved CORBA control module
1909 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1910 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1911 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1914 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1915 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1916 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1919 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1920 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1921 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1922 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1923 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1926 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1929 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1930 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1933 * Server/client network synchronization module
1934 * VBrick streams fully supported
1935 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1939 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1940 --------------------------------
1943 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1944 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1945 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1946 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1949 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1950 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1951 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1952 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1953 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1954 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1955 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1958 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1959 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1960 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1961 * Improved directory access module.
1962 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1963 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1964 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1965 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1966 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1969 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1970 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1971 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1974 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1975 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1976 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1979 * Improved session announcement system.
1980 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1981 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1982 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1983 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1984 * Improved transrater.
1985 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1986 * New configuration system.
1987 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1990 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1991 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1992 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1993 * Supports scheduling.
1994 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1995 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1998 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1999 - Ability to embed video output.
2000 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2001 - Lots of improvements.
2002 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2003 - New design and set of icons.
2004 - Ability to embed video output.
2005 - Support for hotkeys.
2006 - Support for bookmarks.
2008 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2009 - Better hotkeys handling.
2012 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2013 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2014 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2015 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2018 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2019 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2020 * Improved Windows installer.
2026 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2027 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2030 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2031 ---------------------------------
2034 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2035 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2038 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2039 --------------------------------
2042 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2043 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2046 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2047 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2048 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2049 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2052 * Internal improvments
2053 * Improved import/export
2056 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2058 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2059 small and strange formats.
2061 * New MOD audio demux.
2062 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2063 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2064 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2065 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2068 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2069 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2070 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2076 * New opengl video output plugin.
2079 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2080 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2083 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2084 --------------------------------
2087 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2088 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2089 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2090 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2091 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2092 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2093 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2094 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2097 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2102 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2103 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2104 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2105 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2106 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2107 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2108 * Better Icecast support.
2109 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2110 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2113 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2114 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2115 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2116 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2117 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2118 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2119 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2122 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2123 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2124 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2125 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2126 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2127 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2128 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2129 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2130 * Preliminary RTP support.
2131 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2136 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2137 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2139 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2140 - Improvements and help in preferences
2141 - New streaming wizard
2142 - Revised Disc Open menu
2144 - Improvements of the standard pages
2145 - Support for new commands
2146 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2149 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2150 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2153 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2154 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2155 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2156 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2157 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2158 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2159 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2160 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2161 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2164 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2166 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2167 * Support for Panther.
2168 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2169 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2172 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2173 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2174 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2175 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2176 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2177 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2178 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2179 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2182 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2183 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2184 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2187 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2190 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2191 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2192 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2193 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2196 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2197 --------------------------------
2200 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2203 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2204 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2207 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2208 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2211 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2214 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2215 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2218 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2221 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2224 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2225 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2229 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2230 --------------------------------
2233 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2234 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2238 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2239 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2240 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2242 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2243 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2246 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2249 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2252 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2253 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2257 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2258 --------------------------------
2261 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2262 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2266 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2267 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2268 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2269 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2270 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2273 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2274 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2275 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2278 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2279 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2280 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2283 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2284 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2285 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2286 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2287 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2290 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2291 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2292 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2295 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2298 * Improved build system.
2299 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2300 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2301 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2302 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2305 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2306 --------------------------------
2309 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2312 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2313 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2314 * Video 4 Linux support
2315 * CD Digital Audio support
2316 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2319 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2320 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2321 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2322 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2325 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2326 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2327 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2328 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2329 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2330 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2331 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2334 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2335 * New HTTP remote control interface
2338 * 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.
2339 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2340 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2341 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2344 * New reset option for the preferences
2345 * You can set your language in the prefences
2346 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2347 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2348 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2349 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2352 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2353 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2354 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2357 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2358 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2359 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2360 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2361 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2362 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2363 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2364 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2365 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2366 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2369 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2370 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2371 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2372 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2373 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2374 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2375 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2378 * Interface localization
2379 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2380 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2381 * New full-featured Preferences window
2384 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2385 --------------------------------
2388 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2389 * support for skins at the interface level
2390 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2391 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2392 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2393 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2394 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2397 * fixed HTTP redirects
2398 * support for opening an entire directory
2399 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2400 * new video4linux access plug-in
2401 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2404 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2405 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2406 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2409 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2410 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2411 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2412 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2413 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2414 * new codec for raw I420 video
2415 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2418 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2419 (although it still misses some important features)
2420 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2423 * new HTTP output support
2424 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2425 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2428 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2431 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2434 * reorderable playlist
2435 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2436 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2437 * support for mono audio output devices
2438 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2439 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2440 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2441 * the messages window remembers more lines
2442 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2443 * http and ogg stream output options
2444 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2447 * new skinnable interface
2448 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2450 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2451 * support for FLAC audio format
2452 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2454 * network tab in the interface
2455 * "apply" handling in preferences
2458 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2459 ---------------------------------
2462 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2463 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2464 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2465 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2467 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2468 * DTS S/PDIF support
2471 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2472 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2473 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2474 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2477 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2478 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2481 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2484 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2487 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2489 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2490 * rc interface is now fully useable
2491 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2494 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2495 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2496 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2497 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2498 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2500 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2501 * support for mouse gestures
2502 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2505 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2506 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2509 * improved ID3 tag detection
2510 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2511 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2512 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2514 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2517 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2518 ---------------------------------
2521 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2522 English was set as the preferred language
2525 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2526 --------------------------------
2529 * new mouse gesture interface
2530 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2534 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2535 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2536 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2539 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2540 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2544 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2547 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2548 without the user consent
2551 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2553 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2554 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2555 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2558 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2559 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2560 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2561 * playlist enhancements
2562 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2563 * new step forward/step backward commands
2564 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2565 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2566 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2569 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2570 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2571 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2574 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2575 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2578 * native video output is working again
2579 * only commandline interface support
2580 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2583 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2584 --------------------------------
2587 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2588 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2589 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2590 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2591 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2592 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2593 and A/52 streams are supported)
2594 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2599 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2600 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2601 * VCD entry points support
2602 * VCD image file support
2605 * support for *.asf format
2606 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2607 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2608 * support for ogg encapsulation
2609 * support for raw DV format
2610 * support for *.wav format
2611 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2614 Stream discovery & playlists:
2615 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2616 * support for .m3u file format
2617 * support for .asx file format
2618 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2621 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2622 (only available with the .avi demux)
2623 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2624 * support for raw PCM data
2625 * support for Cinepak video codec
2626 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2627 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2628 * support for Xvid codec
2629 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2630 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2631 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2633 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2635 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2638 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2641 * new WxWindows interface
2642 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2643 device and the channels configuration
2644 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2645 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2646 format that VLC can play
2647 * new swedish translation
2648 * enhancements of the playlist window
2649 * new messages window to see debug info
2650 * fixed a few crashes
2653 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2654 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2655 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2656 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working