3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
12 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
13 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
14 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
15 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
16 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
17 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
18 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
19 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
20 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
21 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
22 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
23 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
25 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
26 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
27 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
28 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
29 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
30 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
36 * Vastly improved playlist support:
37 * Media library support
39 * Shoutcast TV listings
40 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
41 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
42 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
45 * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
46 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
47 * JACK audio input support
48 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
49 * Input run time option ( improved live stream recording )
50 * Fixed aiff stereo file
51 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
52 * Improved FLAC demuxer ( duration / current time / meta data )
54 * APEv1/2 tags support
55 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
56 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
60 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
61 * MKV USF subtitles support
62 * HTML based subtitles support
63 * Flash Screen Video support
64 * CamStudio Screen Video support
65 * DosBox Capture support
66 * Karl Morton's Video support
67 * limited atrac3 support
68 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files (Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...)
71 * Flash Screen Video support
73 Video output and filters:
74 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
75 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
76 * New puzzle video output filter
77 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
78 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
80 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
81 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
82 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
84 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
85 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
86 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
87 was previously part of the mosaic module.
88 * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
89 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
90 * Support for Intel SSE2 intruction set in chroma converters
91 * Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters
93 Audio output and filters
94 * Replay gain support.
95 * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet ).
96 * New spatializer audio filter.
99 * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
103 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
105 * Improved user interaction
106 * Improved mouse gestures
108 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
109 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
110 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
111 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
112 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
113 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
114 * Ncurses interface now uses ncursesw to correctly display wide characters
115 when using an UTF-8 locale.
118 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
119 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
120 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
123 * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
130 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
131 ----------------------------------
133 Various bugfixes, notably:
134 * Windows Vista compatibility
135 * Cropping in Direct3D
136 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
137 * RSS filter string overflow
139 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
141 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
142 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316)
145 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
148 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
151 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
154 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
157 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
158 ----------------------------------
160 Various bugfixes, notably:
161 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
162 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
163 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
164 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
165 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
166 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
169 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
170 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
173 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
175 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
176 * Diverse usability improvements
177 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
178 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
179 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
182 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
183 ---------------------------------
186 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
189 * Fullscreen controller improvements
192 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
193 --------------------------------
196 * Shoutcast TV listings support
199 * Support for RTSP authentication
200 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
201 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
202 * ATSC support for DVB input
203 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
204 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
205 * Improved support for Flash Video files
208 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
209 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
210 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
211 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
212 * Matroska WavPack support
213 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
214 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
215 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
218 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
219 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
220 * Improved libcaca support
224 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
225 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
227 * Systray support in skins
229 * Support for Apple Remote control
230 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
231 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
232 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
233 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
235 * Notifications using notification-daemon
238 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
240 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
241 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
242 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
243 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
244 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
246 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
247 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
256 * Updates to the libvlc API
257 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
260 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
261 --------------------------------
264 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
265 * Support for downloading updates
269 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
270 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
271 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
272 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
274 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
275 * Improved subtitles encoding support
276 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
279 * Cook (Real audio) support
281 Playlist / Services discovery:
282 * XSPF playlist support
284 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
287 * New JACK audio output
291 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
292 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
293 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
294 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
295 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
296 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
299 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
302 * System to inform the user and request information
303 - HTTP authentication
307 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
308 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
309 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
312 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
313 - Improved playlist handling
314 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
316 - Embedded Video output
317 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
318 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
319 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
320 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
321 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
323 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
324 - A bunch of new RPN functions
327 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
330 * Mac-Intel compatibility
331 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
332 * Growl "Now playing" support
335 * Ability to log to syslog
336 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
339 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
341 * A bit more automatic testing
344 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
345 ---------------------------------
348 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
349 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
352 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
353 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
356 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
359 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
360 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
366 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
369 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
370 --------------------------------
373 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
377 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
378 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
379 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
382 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
383 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
384 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
385 * GnomeVFS input module
386 * Support for RTP packet reordering
387 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
390 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
391 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
392 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
395 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
396 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
402 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
403 Mixer and Dolby Surround
406 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
407 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
408 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
411 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
413 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
414 - New extended controls panel
415 - New bookmarks window
416 - Fixed playlist sorting
417 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
419 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
420 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
421 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
422 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
426 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
427 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
429 - Include macro to include other files
433 * Should now work outside IE as well
436 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
439 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
440 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
443 The following languages were added:
448 The following languages were re-added:
452 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
453 --------------------------------
456 * Rewrite of the playlist
458 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
459 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
460 * Preferences improvements:
461 - New organization, designed to improve usability
462 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
464 * Core image manipulation support
465 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
466 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
467 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
468 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
469 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
470 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
471 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
472 now separated by ':' instead of ','
473 * Access filter architecture
474 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
475 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
479 * Support for SOCKS proxy
480 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
481 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
482 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
483 * Better support for Kasenna streams
484 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
485 * Massive Matroska improvements
486 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
488 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
489 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
490 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
491 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
492 * Support for FTP over IPv6
495 * Dirac decoder and encoder
496 * PNG decoder/encoder
497 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
498 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
501 * New Record and Timeshift filters
504 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
505 * Brand new SAP module
506 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
507 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
508 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
509 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
510 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
511 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
515 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
518 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
519 * Image file video output (png)
520 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
521 * Improvements to wall video filter
522 * Support for font color and opacity
528 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
529 - Seeking support in VoD streams
530 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
534 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
535 - Improved preferences
536 - Improvements to the wizard
537 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
539 - Redesigned playlist
540 - Improved preferences
542 - Support for multiple actions
545 - Support for the new playlist system
547 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
550 * Screensaver disabling fix
551 * DirectShow tuner configuration
552 * Support for no-decoration windows
555 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
556 * The OpenGL video output is back
557 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
558 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
559 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
560 is not yet available in the new module
561 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
564 * Support for single-buffered overlay
573 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
576 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
579 The following languages were added:
585 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
586 --------------------------------
589 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
590 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
593 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
594 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
595 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
598 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
601 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
604 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
607 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
608 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
609 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
613 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
615 * Support of playlist group announcement
618 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
619 --------------------------------
622 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
623 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
624 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
625 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
626 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
627 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
630 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
631 (Stream your desktop)
632 * Improved DVD support:
633 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
634 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
635 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
636 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
637 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
638 (selection of titles/chapters).
641 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
642 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
643 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
644 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
645 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
646 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
647 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
648 * Improved Ogg demuxer
649 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
650 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
653 * G.726 audio support
654 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
655 * MPEG-4 text support
656 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
657 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
658 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
662 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
663 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
664 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
665 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
666 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
667 * DVB subtitles encoder
668 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
669 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
671 * Text track muxing for mp4
672 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
673 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
674 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
675 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
676 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
679 * H.263 RTP streaming support
680 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
681 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
684 * New audio equalizer filter
685 * Very trivial volume normalizer
686 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
687 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
688 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
691 * Roku HD1000 Video output
692 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
693 with support for effects.
694 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
695 - New filters can be streamed.
696 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
697 - Centralized scaling and blending
699 - "time", to display current time
700 - "marq", to display a marquee
703 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
704 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
705 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
706 * A few skins2 improvements
707 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
708 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
709 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
710 * Improved CORBA control module
713 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
714 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
715 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
718 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
719 * Experimental SVG rendering module
720 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
723 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
724 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
725 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
726 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
727 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
730 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
733 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
734 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
737 * Server/client network synchronization module
738 * VBrick streams fully supported
739 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
743 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
744 --------------------------------
747 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
748 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
749 * Improved HTTP daemon.
750 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
753 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
754 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
755 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
756 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
757 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
758 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
759 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
762 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
763 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
764 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
765 * Improved directory access module.
766 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
767 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
768 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
769 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
770 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
773 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
774 * mmsh streaming fixes.
775 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
778 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
779 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
780 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
783 * Improved session announcement system.
784 * Minimize threads usage by default.
785 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
786 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
787 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
788 * Improved transrater.
789 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
790 * New configuration system.
791 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
794 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
795 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
796 * Supports live streams and VoD.
797 * Supports scheduling.
798 * Telnet interface for vlm.
799 * HTTP interface for vlm.
802 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
803 - Ability to embed video output.
804 - Support for bitmap fonts.
805 - Lots of improvements.
806 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
807 - New design and set of icons.
808 - Ability to embed video output.
809 - Support for hotkeys.
810 - Support for bookmarks.
812 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
813 - Better hotkeys handling.
816 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
817 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
818 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
819 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
822 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
823 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
824 * Improved Windows installer.
830 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
831 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
834 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
835 ---------------------------------
838 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
839 * Playing MOD files is working now.
842 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
843 --------------------------------
846 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
847 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
850 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
851 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
852 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
853 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
856 * Internal improvments
857 * Improved import/export
860 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
862 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
863 small and strange formats.
865 * New MOD audio demux.
866 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
867 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
868 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
869 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
872 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
873 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
874 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
880 * New opengl video output plugin.
883 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
884 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
887 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
888 --------------------------------
891 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
892 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
893 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
894 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
895 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
896 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
897 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
898 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
901 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
906 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
907 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
908 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
909 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
910 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
911 * Reworked DVB tuning.
912 * Better Icecast support.
913 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
914 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
917 * Support for Theora video encoding.
918 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
919 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
920 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
921 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
922 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
923 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
926 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
927 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
928 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
929 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
930 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
931 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
932 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
933 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
934 * Preliminary RTP support.
935 * Fixes to SAP announces.
940 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
941 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
943 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
944 - Improvements and help in preferences
945 - New streaming wizard
946 - Revised Disc Open menu
948 - Improvements of the standard pages
949 - Support for new commands
950 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
953 * Many fixes to the SAP module
954 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
957 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
958 * Text subtitles autodetection.
959 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
960 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
961 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
962 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
963 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
964 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
965 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
968 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
970 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
971 * Support for Panther.
972 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
973 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
976 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
977 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
978 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
979 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
980 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
981 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
982 * Multimonitor support (untested).
983 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
986 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
987 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
988 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
991 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
994 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
995 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
996 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
997 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1000 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1001 --------------------------------
1004 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1007 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1008 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1011 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1012 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1015 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1018 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1019 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1022 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1025 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1028 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1029 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1033 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1034 --------------------------------
1037 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1038 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1042 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1043 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1044 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1046 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1047 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1050 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1053 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1056 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1057 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1061 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1062 --------------------------------
1065 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1066 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1070 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1071 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1072 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1073 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1074 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1077 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1078 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1079 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1082 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1083 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1084 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1087 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1088 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1089 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1090 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1091 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1094 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1095 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1096 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1099 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1102 * Improved build system.
1103 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1104 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1105 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1106 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1109 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1110 --------------------------------
1113 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1116 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1117 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1118 * Video 4 Linux support
1119 * CD Digital Audio support
1120 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1123 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1124 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1125 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1126 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1129 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1130 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1131 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1132 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1133 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1134 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1135 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1138 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1139 * New HTTP remote control interface
1142 * 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.
1143 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1144 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1145 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1148 * New reset option for the preferences
1149 * You can set your language in the prefences
1150 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1151 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1152 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1153 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1156 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1157 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1158 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1161 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1162 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1163 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1164 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1165 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1166 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1167 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1168 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1169 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1170 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1173 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1174 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1175 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1176 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1177 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1178 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1179 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1182 * Interface localization
1183 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1184 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1185 * New full-featured Preferences window
1188 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1189 --------------------------------
1192 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1193 * support for skins at the interface level
1194 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1195 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1196 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1197 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1198 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1201 * fixed HTTP redirects
1202 * support for opening an entire directory
1203 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1204 * new video4linux access plug-in
1205 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1208 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1209 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1210 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1213 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1214 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1215 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1216 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1217 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1218 * new codec for raw I420 video
1219 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1222 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1223 (although it still misses some important features)
1224 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1227 * new HTTP output support
1228 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1229 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1232 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1235 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1238 * reorderable playlist
1239 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1240 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1241 * support for mono audio output devices
1242 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1243 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1244 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1245 * the messages window remembers more lines
1246 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1247 * http and ogg stream output options
1248 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1251 * new skinnable interface
1252 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1254 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1255 * support for FLAC audio format
1256 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1258 * network tab in the interface
1259 * "apply" handling in preferences
1262 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1263 ---------------------------------
1266 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1267 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1268 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1269 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1271 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1272 * DTS S/PDIF support
1275 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1276 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1277 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1278 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1281 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1282 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1285 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1288 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1291 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1293 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1294 * rc interface is now fully useable
1295 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1298 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1299 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1300 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1301 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1302 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1304 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1305 * support for mouse gestures
1306 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1309 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1310 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1313 * improved ID3 tag detection
1314 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1315 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1316 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1318 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1321 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1322 ---------------------------------
1325 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1326 English was set as the preferred language
1329 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1330 --------------------------------
1333 * new mouse gesture interface
1334 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1338 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1339 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1340 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1343 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1344 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1348 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1351 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1352 without the user consent
1355 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1357 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1358 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1359 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1362 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1363 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1364 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1365 * playlist enhancements
1366 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1367 * new step forward/step backward commands
1368 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1369 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1370 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1373 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1374 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1375 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1378 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1379 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1382 * native video output is working again
1383 * only commandline interface support
1384 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1387 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1388 --------------------------------
1391 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1392 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1393 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1394 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1395 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1396 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1397 and A/52 streams are supported)
1398 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1403 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1404 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1405 * VCD entry points support
1406 * VCD image file support
1409 * support for *.asf format
1410 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1411 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1412 * support for ogg encapsulation
1413 * support for raw DV format
1414 * support for *.wav format
1415 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1418 Stream discovery & playlists:
1419 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1420 * support for .m3u file format
1421 * support for .asx file format
1422 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1425 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1426 (only available with the .avi demux)
1427 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1428 * support for raw PCM data
1429 * support for Cinepak video codec
1430 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1431 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1432 * support for Xvid codec
1433 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1434 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1435 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1437 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1439 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1442 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1445 * new WxWindows interface
1446 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1447 device and the channels configuration
1448 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1449 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1450 format that VLC can play
1451 * new swedish translation
1452 * enhancements of the playlist window
1453 * new messages window to see debug info
1454 * fixed a few crashes
1457 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1458 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1459 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1460 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working