1 Changes between 0.9.8a and 1.0.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
6 * Frame-By-Frame Support
8 * RTSP trickplay support
12 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
13 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
14 * Playback for video in Rar archives
15 * DVB-S and ATSC support on Windows
18 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
19 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on
23 * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
24 * Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) support
26 * Blu-Ray Linear PCM support
27 * QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) support
28 * Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 support
31 * Support for Dirac and RealVideo in Matroska files
32 * Major improvements in RealMedia files (.rm and .rmvb)
35 * Dirac encoding support using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
38 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
39 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
40 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
41 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
43 Linux/Windows interface:
44 * Recently played items list
47 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
50 * New Maemo port with:
51 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
52 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
55 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
58 * support to Export the playlist in HTML
59 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
62 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
63 * Surround support for PulseAudio
66 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
69 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
70 ---------------------------------
73 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
75 Bunch of small bugfixes.
78 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
79 --------------------------------
84 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
85 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
88 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
89 --------------------------------
91 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
92 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
95 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
98 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
99 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
102 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
103 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
106 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
107 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
108 * Various fixed in playlist
111 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
114 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
117 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
118 ------------------------------------
120 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
121 * Fixes several memory leaks.
124 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
125 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
126 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
129 * Stability fix for the video output.
132 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
133 --------------------------------
136 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
137 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
138 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
139 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
140 * Fixed update system bugs
141 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
144 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
145 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
146 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
147 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
148 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
149 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
150 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
151 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
152 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
153 modern Mac OS X versions
156 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
157 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
159 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
160 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
163 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
164 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
165 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
166 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
167 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
168 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
171 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
172 --------------------------------
174 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
175 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
179 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
180 --------------------------------
182 * Multiple bug fixes.
185 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
186 ---------------------------------
190 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
191 recent to work correctly
192 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
193 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
194 edit the ".hosts" file.
195 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
196 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
197 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
198 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
199 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
200 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
201 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
202 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
203 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
204 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
205 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
206 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
207 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
208 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
209 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
210 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
211 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
212 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
213 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
214 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
215 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
216 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
217 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
218 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
219 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
220 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
221 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
222 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
223 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
224 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
225 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
226 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
227 and postproc modules.
228 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
229 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
230 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
231 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
233 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
235 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
236 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
238 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
239 * Glide video output module has been removed.
245 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
247 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
248 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
251 * Vastly improved playlist support:
252 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
254 * Shoutcast TV listings
255 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
257 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
258 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
260 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
263 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
264 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
265 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
266 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
267 * JACK audio input support
268 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
269 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
270 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
271 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
272 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
273 * Experimental EyeTV access module
274 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
275 (available as a separate download).
276 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
278 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
279 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
280 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
282 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
283 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
286 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
287 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
288 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
289 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
291 * APEv1/2 tags support
292 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
293 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
295 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
296 * TiVo Series 2 support
297 * CD+G karaoke Files support
302 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
303 * Flash Screen Video support
304 * CamStudio Screen Video support
305 * DosBox Capture support
306 * Karl Morton's Video support
307 * limited atrac3 support
309 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
310 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
311 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
313 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
314 * NellyMoser ASAO support
315 * APE (Monkey audio) support
316 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
317 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
320 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
321 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
322 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
323 * AQTitle subtitles support
324 * MKV USF subtitles support
325 * HTML-based subtitles support
326 * MPSub subtitles support
327 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
328 * MPL2 subtitles support
329 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
330 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
331 * Realtext subtitle support
332 * DKS subtitle support
333 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
334 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
337 * Flash Screen Video support
338 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
340 Video outputs and filters:
341 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
342 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
343 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
344 * New puzzle video output filter
345 * Re-written motion detection video filter
346 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
348 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
349 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
350 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
351 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
352 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
353 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
354 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
355 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
356 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
357 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
358 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
359 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
360 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
361 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
363 Audio outputs and filters:
364 * Replay gain support
365 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
366 new scaletempo audio filter)
367 * New spatializer audio filter
368 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
371 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
372 * New RTP payload formats:
373 * Speex voice audio codec
374 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
375 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
376 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
377 * DCCP transport for RTP
378 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
383 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
384 end-user suitable way.
385 * Improved user interaction
386 * Improved mouse gestures
387 * Vastly improved Update checker
388 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
390 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
391 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
393 * Improved video output features
394 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
395 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
396 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
397 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
398 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
400 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
401 if libncursesw is available.
402 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
403 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
404 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
406 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
407 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
408 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
409 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
410 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
411 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
412 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
413 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
416 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
417 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
418 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
421 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
422 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
423 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
424 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
425 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
426 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
429 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
430 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
440 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
441 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
442 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
445 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
446 ----------------------------------
449 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
452 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
453 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
454 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
455 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
456 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
457 * Updated Polish translation
460 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
461 ----------------------------------
464 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
465 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
466 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
469 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
470 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
471 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
472 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
473 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
474 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
475 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
476 to an unexpected application termination
477 * New Serbian translation
478 * Updated Romanian translation
481 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
482 ----------------------------------
485 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
486 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
487 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
488 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
489 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
490 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
491 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
492 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
495 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
496 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
497 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
498 * Fixed AAC resampling
499 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
500 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
503 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
504 ----------------------------------
507 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
508 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
509 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
510 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
511 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
514 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
515 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
516 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
517 * Close MMS access on network timeout
518 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
521 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
522 ----------------------------------
525 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
526 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
529 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
530 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
531 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
532 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
534 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
538 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
541 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
544 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
547 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
550 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
551 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
552 encoding on multi-cpu systems
553 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
554 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
556 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
557 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
558 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
559 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
562 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
565 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
566 ----------------------------------
569 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
570 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
571 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
573 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
574 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
576 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
577 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
580 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
582 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
583 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
584 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
585 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
586 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
587 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
589 * Support for current Ogg file formats
590 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
591 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
594 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
597 * The automatic updating facility was removed
598 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
599 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
600 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
603 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
604 ----------------------------------
606 Various bugfixes, notably:
607 * Windows Vista compatibility
608 * Cropping in Direct3D
609 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
610 * RSS filter string overflow
612 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
614 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
615 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
618 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
619 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
622 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
625 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
628 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
631 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
632 ----------------------------------
634 Various bugfixes, notably:
635 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
636 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
637 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
638 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
639 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
640 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
643 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
644 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
647 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
649 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
650 * Diverse usability improvements
651 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
652 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
653 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
656 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
657 ---------------------------------
660 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
663 * Fullscreen controller improvements
666 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
667 --------------------------------
670 * Shoutcast TV listings support
673 * Support for RTSP authentication
674 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
675 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
676 * ATSC support for DVB input
677 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
678 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
679 * Improved support for Flash Video files
682 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
683 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
684 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
685 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
686 * Matroska WavPack support
687 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
688 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
689 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
692 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
693 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
694 * Improved libcaca support
698 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
699 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
701 * Systray support in skins
703 * Support for Apple Remote control
704 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
705 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
706 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
707 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
709 * Notifications using notification-daemon
712 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
714 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
715 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
716 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
717 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
718 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
720 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
721 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
730 * Updates to the libvlc API
731 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
734 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
735 --------------------------------
738 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
739 * Support for downloading updates
743 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
744 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
745 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
746 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
748 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
749 * Improved subtitles encoding support
750 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
753 * Cook (Real audio) support
755 Playlist / Services discovery:
756 * XSPF playlist support
758 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
761 * New JACK audio output
765 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
766 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
767 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
768 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
769 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
770 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
773 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
776 * System to inform the user and request information
777 - HTTP authentication
781 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
782 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
783 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
786 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
787 - Improved playlist handling
788 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
790 - Embedded Video output
791 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
792 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
793 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
794 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
795 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
797 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
798 - A bunch of new RPN functions
801 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
804 * Mac-Intel compatibility
805 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
806 * Growl "Now playing" support
809 * Ability to log to syslog
810 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
813 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
815 * A bit more automatic testing
818 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
819 ---------------------------------
822 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
823 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
826 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
827 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
830 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
833 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
834 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
840 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
843 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
844 --------------------------------
847 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
851 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
852 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
853 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
856 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
857 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
858 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
859 * GnomeVFS input module
860 * Support for RTP packet reordering
861 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
864 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
865 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
866 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
869 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
870 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
876 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
877 Mixer and Dolby Surround
880 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
881 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
882 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
885 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
887 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
888 - New extended controls panel
889 - New bookmarks window
890 - Fixed playlist sorting
891 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
893 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
894 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
895 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
896 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
900 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
901 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
903 - Include macro to include other files
907 * Should now work outside IE as well
910 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
913 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
914 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
917 The following languages were added:
922 The following languages were re-added:
926 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
927 --------------------------------
930 * Rewrite of the playlist
932 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
933 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
934 * Preferences improvements:
935 - New organization, designed to improve usability
936 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
938 * Core image manipulation support
939 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
940 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
941 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
942 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
943 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
944 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
945 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
946 now separated by ':' instead of ','
947 * Access filter architecture
948 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
949 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
953 * Support for SOCKS proxy
954 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
955 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
956 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
957 * Better support for Kasenna streams
958 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
959 * Massive Matroska improvements
960 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
962 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
963 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
964 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
965 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
966 * Support for FTP over IPv6
969 * Dirac decoder and encoder
970 * PNG decoder/encoder
971 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
972 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
975 * New Record and Timeshift filters
978 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
979 * Brand new SAP module
980 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
981 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
982 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
983 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
984 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
985 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
989 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
992 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
993 * Image file video output (png)
994 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
995 * Improvements to wall video filter
996 * Support for font color and opacity
1002 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1003 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1004 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1008 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1009 - Improved preferences
1010 - Improvements to the wizard
1011 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1013 - Redesigned playlist
1014 - Improved preferences
1016 - Support for multiple actions
1019 - Support for the new playlist system
1021 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1024 * Screensaver disabling fix
1025 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1026 * Support for no-decoration windows
1029 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1030 * The OpenGL video output is back
1031 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1032 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1033 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1034 is not yet available in the new module
1035 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1038 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1047 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1050 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1053 The following languages were added:
1059 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1060 --------------------------------
1063 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1064 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1067 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1068 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1069 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1072 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1075 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1078 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1081 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1082 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1083 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1087 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1089 * Support of playlist group announcement
1092 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1093 --------------------------------
1096 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1097 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1098 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1099 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1100 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1101 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1104 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1105 (Stream your desktop)
1106 * Improved DVD support:
1107 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1108 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1109 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1110 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1111 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1112 (selection of titles/chapters).
1115 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1116 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1117 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1118 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1119 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1120 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1121 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1122 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1123 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1124 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1127 * G.726 audio support
1128 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1129 * MPEG-4 text support
1130 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1131 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1132 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1136 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1137 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1138 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1139 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1140 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1141 * DVB subtitles encoder
1142 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1143 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1145 * Text track muxing for mp4
1146 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1147 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1148 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1149 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1150 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1151 * Improved ASF muxer
1153 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1154 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1155 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1158 * New audio equalizer filter
1159 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1160 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1161 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1162 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1165 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1166 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1167 with support for effects.
1168 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1169 - New filters can be streamed.
1170 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1171 - Centralized scaling and blending
1173 - "time", to display current time
1174 - "marq", to display a marquee
1177 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1178 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1179 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1180 * A few skins2 improvements
1181 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1182 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1183 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1184 * Improved CORBA control module
1187 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1188 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1189 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1192 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1193 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1194 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1197 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1198 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1199 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1200 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1201 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1204 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1207 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1208 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1211 * Server/client network synchronization module
1212 * VBrick streams fully supported
1213 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1217 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1218 --------------------------------
1221 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1222 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1223 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1224 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1227 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1228 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1229 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1230 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1231 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1232 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1233 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1236 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1237 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1238 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1239 * Improved directory access module.
1240 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1241 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1242 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1243 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1244 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1247 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1248 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1249 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1252 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1253 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1254 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1257 * Improved session announcement system.
1258 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1259 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1260 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1261 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1262 * Improved transrater.
1263 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1264 * New configuration system.
1265 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1268 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1269 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1270 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1271 * Supports scheduling.
1272 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1273 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1276 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1277 - Ability to embed video output.
1278 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1279 - Lots of improvements.
1280 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1281 - New design and set of icons.
1282 - Ability to embed video output.
1283 - Support for hotkeys.
1284 - Support for bookmarks.
1286 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1287 - Better hotkeys handling.
1290 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1291 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1292 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1293 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1296 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1297 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1298 * Improved Windows installer.
1304 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1305 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1308 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1309 ---------------------------------
1312 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1313 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1316 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1317 --------------------------------
1320 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1321 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1324 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1325 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1326 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1327 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1330 * Internal improvments
1331 * Improved import/export
1334 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1336 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1337 small and strange formats.
1339 * New MOD audio demux.
1340 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1341 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1342 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1343 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1346 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1347 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1348 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1354 * New opengl video output plugin.
1357 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1358 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1361 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1362 --------------------------------
1365 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1366 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1367 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1368 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1369 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1370 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1371 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1372 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1375 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1380 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1381 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1382 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1383 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1384 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1385 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1386 * Better Icecast support.
1387 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1388 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1391 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1392 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1393 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1394 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1395 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1396 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1397 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1400 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1401 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1402 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1403 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1404 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1405 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1406 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1407 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1408 * Preliminary RTP support.
1409 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1414 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1415 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1417 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1418 - Improvements and help in preferences
1419 - New streaming wizard
1420 - Revised Disc Open menu
1422 - Improvements of the standard pages
1423 - Support for new commands
1424 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1427 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1428 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1431 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1432 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1433 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1434 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1435 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1436 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1437 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1438 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1439 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1442 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1444 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1445 * Support for Panther.
1446 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1447 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1450 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1451 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1452 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1453 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1454 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1455 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1456 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1457 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1460 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1461 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1462 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1465 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1468 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1469 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1470 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1471 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1474 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1475 --------------------------------
1478 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1481 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1482 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1485 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1486 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1489 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1492 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1493 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1496 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1499 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1502 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1503 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1507 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1508 --------------------------------
1511 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1512 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1516 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1517 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1518 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1520 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1521 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1524 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1527 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1530 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1531 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1535 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1536 --------------------------------
1539 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1540 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1544 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1545 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1546 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1547 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1548 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1551 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1552 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1553 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1556 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1557 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1558 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1561 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1562 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1563 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1564 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1565 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1568 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1569 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1570 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1573 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1576 * Improved build system.
1577 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1578 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1579 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1580 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1583 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1584 --------------------------------
1587 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1590 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1591 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1592 * Video 4 Linux support
1593 * CD Digital Audio support
1594 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1597 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1598 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1599 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1600 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1603 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1604 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1605 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1606 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1607 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1608 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1609 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1612 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1613 * New HTTP remote control interface
1616 * 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.
1617 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1618 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1619 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1622 * New reset option for the preferences
1623 * You can set your language in the prefences
1624 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1625 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1626 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1627 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1630 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1631 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1632 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1635 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1636 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1637 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1638 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1639 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1640 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1641 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1642 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1643 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1644 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1647 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1648 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1649 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1650 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1651 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1652 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1653 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1656 * Interface localization
1657 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1658 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1659 * New full-featured Preferences window
1662 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1663 --------------------------------
1666 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1667 * support for skins at the interface level
1668 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1669 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1670 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1671 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1672 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1675 * fixed HTTP redirects
1676 * support for opening an entire directory
1677 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1678 * new video4linux access plug-in
1679 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1682 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1683 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1684 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1687 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1688 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1689 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1690 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1691 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1692 * new codec for raw I420 video
1693 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1696 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1697 (although it still misses some important features)
1698 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1701 * new HTTP output support
1702 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1703 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1706 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1709 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1712 * reorderable playlist
1713 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1714 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1715 * support for mono audio output devices
1716 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1717 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1718 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1719 * the messages window remembers more lines
1720 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1721 * http and ogg stream output options
1722 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1725 * new skinnable interface
1726 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1728 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1729 * support for FLAC audio format
1730 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1732 * network tab in the interface
1733 * "apply" handling in preferences
1736 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1737 ---------------------------------
1740 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1741 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1742 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1743 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1745 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1746 * DTS S/PDIF support
1749 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1750 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1751 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1752 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1755 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1756 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1759 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1762 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1765 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1767 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1768 * rc interface is now fully useable
1769 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1772 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1773 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1774 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1775 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1776 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1778 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1779 * support for mouse gestures
1780 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1783 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1784 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1787 * improved ID3 tag detection
1788 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1789 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1790 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1792 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1795 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1796 ---------------------------------
1799 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1800 English was set as the preferred language
1803 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1804 --------------------------------
1807 * new mouse gesture interface
1808 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1812 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1813 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1814 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1817 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1818 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1822 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1825 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1826 without the user consent
1829 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1831 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1832 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1833 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1836 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1837 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1838 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1839 * playlist enhancements
1840 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1841 * new step forward/step backward commands
1842 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1843 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1844 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1847 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1848 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1849 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1852 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1853 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1856 * native video output is working again
1857 * only commandline interface support
1858 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1861 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1862 --------------------------------
1865 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1866 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1867 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1868 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1869 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1870 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1871 and A/52 streams are supported)
1872 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1877 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1878 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1879 * VCD entry points support
1880 * VCD image file support
1883 * support for *.asf format
1884 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1885 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1886 * support for ogg encapsulation
1887 * support for raw DV format
1888 * support for *.wav format
1889 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1892 Stream discovery & playlists:
1893 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1894 * support for .m3u file format
1895 * support for .asx file format
1896 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1899 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1900 (only available with the .avi demux)
1901 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1902 * support for raw PCM data
1903 * support for Cinepak video codec
1904 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1905 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1906 * support for Xvid codec
1907 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1908 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1909 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1911 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1913 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1916 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1919 * new WxWindows interface
1920 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1921 device and the channels configuration
1922 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1923 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1924 format that VLC can play
1925 * new swedish translation
1926 * enhancements of the playlist window
1927 * new messages window to see debug info
1928 * fixed a few crashes
1931 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1932 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1933 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1934 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working