1 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0-test3:
2 ---------------------------------------
6 * This release will not work with Windows 98/ME and Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther)
7 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
8 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
9 edit the ".hosts" file.
10 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
11 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
12 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
13 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
14 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
15 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
16 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
17 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
18 This interface has a fullscreen controller. This interface lacks the
19 "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
20 If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
21 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
22 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
23 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
24 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
25 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
26 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
27 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
28 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
29 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
30 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
31 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
32 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
33 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
34 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
35 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
36 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
37 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by avcodec, avformat, swscale
38 (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build) and postproc modules.
39 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
40 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
41 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
42 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
44 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
46 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
47 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
49 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
50 * Glide video output module has been removed.
56 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-??)
59 * Vastly improved playlist support:
60 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
62 * Shoutcast TV listings
63 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
65 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
66 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
67 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
68 share/lua/meta/README.txt
71 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
72 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
73 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
74 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
75 * JACK audio input support
76 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
77 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
78 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
79 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
80 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
81 * Experimental EyeTV access module
82 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
83 (available as a separate download).
85 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
86 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
87 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
89 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
90 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
93 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
94 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
95 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
96 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
98 * APEv1/2 tags support
99 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
100 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
102 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
103 * TiVo Series 2 support
104 * CD+G karaoke Files support
109 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
110 * Flash Screen Video support
111 * CamStudio Screen Video support
112 * DosBox Capture support
113 * Karl Morton's Video support
114 * limited atrac3 support
115 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
116 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
117 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
119 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
120 * NellyMoser ASAO support
121 * APE (Monkey audio) support
122 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
123 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
126 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
127 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
128 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
129 * AQTitle subtitles support
130 * MKV USF subtitles support
131 * HTML-based subtitles support
132 * MPSub subtitles support
133 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
134 * MPL2 subtitles support
135 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
136 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
137 * Realtext subtitle support
138 * DKS subtitle support
139 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
140 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
143 * Flash Screen Video support
144 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
146 Video outputs and filters:
147 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
148 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
149 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
150 * New puzzle video output filter
151 * Re-written motion detection video filter
152 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
154 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
155 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
156 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
157 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
158 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
159 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
160 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
161 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
162 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
163 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
164 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
165 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
166 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
168 Audio outputs and filters:
169 * Replay gain support
170 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
171 * New spatializer audio filter
172 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
175 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
176 * New RTP payload formats:
177 * Speex voice audio codec
178 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
179 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
180 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
181 * DCCP transport for RTP
182 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
187 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
188 end-user suitable way.
189 * Improved user interaction
190 * Improved mouse gestures
191 * Vastly improved Update checker
192 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
194 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
195 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
197 * Improved video output features
198 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
199 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
200 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
201 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
202 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
204 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
205 if libncursesw is available.
206 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
207 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
209 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
210 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
211 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
212 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
213 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
214 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
215 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
216 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
219 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
220 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
221 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
224 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
225 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
226 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
227 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
228 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
229 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
232 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
233 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
241 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
242 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
243 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
246 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
247 ----------------------------------
250 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
253 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
254 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
255 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
256 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
257 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
258 * Updated Polish translation
261 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
262 ----------------------------------
265 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
266 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
267 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
270 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
271 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
272 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
273 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
274 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
275 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
276 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
277 to an unexpected application termination
278 * New Serbian translation
279 * Updated Romanian translation
282 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
283 ----------------------------------
286 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
287 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
288 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
289 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
290 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
291 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
292 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
293 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
296 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
297 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
298 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
299 * Fixed AAC resampling
300 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
301 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
304 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
305 ----------------------------------
308 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
309 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
310 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
311 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
312 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
315 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
316 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
317 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
318 * Close MMS access on network timeout
319 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
322 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
323 ----------------------------------
326 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
327 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
330 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
331 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
332 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
333 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
335 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
339 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
342 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
345 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
348 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
351 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
352 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
353 encoding on multi-cpu systems
354 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
355 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
357 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
358 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
359 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
360 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
363 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
366 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
367 ----------------------------------
370 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
371 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
372 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
374 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
375 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
377 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
378 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
381 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
383 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
384 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
385 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
386 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
387 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
388 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
390 * Support for current Ogg file formats
391 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
392 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
395 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
398 * The automatic updating facility was removed
399 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
400 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
401 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
404 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
405 ----------------------------------
407 Various bugfixes, notably:
408 * Windows Vista compatibility
409 * Cropping in Direct3D
410 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
411 * RSS filter string overflow
413 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
415 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
416 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
419 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
420 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
423 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
426 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
429 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
432 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
433 ----------------------------------
435 Various bugfixes, notably:
436 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
437 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
438 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
439 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
440 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
441 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
444 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
445 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
448 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
450 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
451 * Diverse usability improvements
452 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
453 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
454 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
457 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
458 ---------------------------------
461 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
464 * Fullscreen controller improvements
467 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
468 --------------------------------
471 * Shoutcast TV listings support
474 * Support for RTSP authentication
475 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
476 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
477 * ATSC support for DVB input
478 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
479 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
480 * Improved support for Flash Video files
483 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
484 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
485 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
486 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
487 * Matroska WavPack support
488 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
489 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
490 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
493 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
494 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
495 * Improved libcaca support
499 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
500 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
502 * Systray support in skins
504 * Support for Apple Remote control
505 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
506 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
507 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
508 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
510 * Notifications using notification-daemon
513 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
515 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
516 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
517 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
518 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
519 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
521 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
522 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
531 * Updates to the libvlc API
532 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
535 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
536 --------------------------------
539 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
540 * Support for downloading updates
544 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
545 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
546 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
547 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
549 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
550 * Improved subtitles encoding support
551 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
554 * Cook (Real audio) support
556 Playlist / Services discovery:
557 * XSPF playlist support
559 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
562 * New JACK audio output
566 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
567 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
568 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
569 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
570 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
571 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
574 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
577 * System to inform the user and request information
578 - HTTP authentication
582 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
583 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
584 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
587 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
588 - Improved playlist handling
589 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
591 - Embedded Video output
592 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
593 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
594 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
595 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
596 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
598 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
599 - A bunch of new RPN functions
602 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
605 * Mac-Intel compatibility
606 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
607 * Growl "Now playing" support
610 * Ability to log to syslog
611 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
614 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
616 * A bit more automatic testing
619 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
620 ---------------------------------
623 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
624 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
627 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
628 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
631 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
634 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
635 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
641 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
644 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
645 --------------------------------
648 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
652 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
653 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
654 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
657 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
658 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
659 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
660 * GnomeVFS input module
661 * Support for RTP packet reordering
662 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
665 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
666 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
667 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
670 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
671 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
677 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
678 Mixer and Dolby Surround
681 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
682 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
683 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
686 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
688 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
689 - New extended controls panel
690 - New bookmarks window
691 - Fixed playlist sorting
692 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
694 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
695 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
696 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
697 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
701 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
702 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
704 - Include macro to include other files
708 * Should now work outside IE as well
711 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
714 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
715 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
718 The following languages were added:
723 The following languages were re-added:
727 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
728 --------------------------------
731 * Rewrite of the playlist
733 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
734 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
735 * Preferences improvements:
736 - New organization, designed to improve usability
737 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
739 * Core image manipulation support
740 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
741 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
742 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
743 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
744 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
745 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
746 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
747 now separated by ':' instead of ','
748 * Access filter architecture
749 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
750 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
754 * Support for SOCKS proxy
755 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
756 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
757 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
758 * Better support for Kasenna streams
759 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
760 * Massive Matroska improvements
761 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
763 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
764 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
765 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
766 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
767 * Support for FTP over IPv6
770 * Dirac decoder and encoder
771 * PNG decoder/encoder
772 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
773 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
776 * New Record and Timeshift filters
779 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
780 * Brand new SAP module
781 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
782 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
783 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
784 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
785 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
786 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
790 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
793 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
794 * Image file video output (png)
795 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
796 * Improvements to wall video filter
797 * Support for font color and opacity
803 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
804 - Seeking support in VoD streams
805 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
809 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
810 - Improved preferences
811 - Improvements to the wizard
812 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
814 - Redesigned playlist
815 - Improved preferences
817 - Support for multiple actions
820 - Support for the new playlist system
822 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
825 * Screensaver disabling fix
826 * DirectShow tuner configuration
827 * Support for no-decoration windows
830 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
831 * The OpenGL video output is back
832 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
833 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
834 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
835 is not yet available in the new module
836 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
839 * Support for single-buffered overlay
848 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
851 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
854 The following languages were added:
860 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
861 --------------------------------
864 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
865 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
868 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
869 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
870 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
873 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
876 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
879 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
882 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
883 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
884 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
888 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
890 * Support of playlist group announcement
893 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
894 --------------------------------
897 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
898 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
899 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
900 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
901 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
902 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
905 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
906 (Stream your desktop)
907 * Improved DVD support:
908 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
909 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
910 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
911 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
912 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
913 (selection of titles/chapters).
916 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
917 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
918 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
919 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
920 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
921 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
922 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
923 * Improved Ogg demuxer
924 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
925 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
928 * G.726 audio support
929 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
930 * MPEG-4 text support
931 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
932 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
933 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
937 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
938 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
939 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
940 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
941 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
942 * DVB subtitles encoder
943 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
944 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
946 * Text track muxing for mp4
947 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
948 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
949 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
950 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
951 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
954 * H.263 RTP streaming support
955 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
956 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
959 * New audio equalizer filter
960 * Very trivial volume normalizer
961 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
962 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
963 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
966 * Roku HD1000 Video output
967 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
968 with support for effects.
969 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
970 - New filters can be streamed.
971 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
972 - Centralized scaling and blending
974 - "time", to display current time
975 - "marq", to display a marquee
978 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
979 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
980 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
981 * A few skins2 improvements
982 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
983 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
984 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
985 * Improved CORBA control module
988 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
989 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
990 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
993 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
994 * Experimental SVG rendering module
995 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
998 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
999 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1000 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1001 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1002 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1005 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1008 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1009 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1012 * Server/client network synchronization module
1013 * VBrick streams fully supported
1014 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1018 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1019 --------------------------------
1022 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1023 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1024 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1025 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1028 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1029 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1030 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1031 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1032 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1033 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1034 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1037 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1038 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1039 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1040 * Improved directory access module.
1041 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1042 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1043 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1044 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1045 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1048 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1049 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1050 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1053 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1054 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1055 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1058 * Improved session announcement system.
1059 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1060 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1061 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1062 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1063 * Improved transrater.
1064 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1065 * New configuration system.
1066 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1069 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1070 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1071 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1072 * Supports scheduling.
1073 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1074 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1077 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1078 - Ability to embed video output.
1079 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1080 - Lots of improvements.
1081 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1082 - New design and set of icons.
1083 - Ability to embed video output.
1084 - Support for hotkeys.
1085 - Support for bookmarks.
1087 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1088 - Better hotkeys handling.
1091 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1092 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1093 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1094 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1097 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1098 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1099 * Improved Windows installer.
1105 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1106 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1109 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1110 ---------------------------------
1113 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1114 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1117 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1118 --------------------------------
1121 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1122 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1125 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1126 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1127 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1128 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1131 * Internal improvments
1132 * Improved import/export
1135 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1137 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1138 small and strange formats.
1140 * New MOD audio demux.
1141 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1142 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1143 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1144 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1147 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1148 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1149 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1155 * New opengl video output plugin.
1158 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1159 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1162 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1163 --------------------------------
1166 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1167 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1168 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1169 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1170 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1171 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1172 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1173 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1176 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1181 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1182 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1183 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1184 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1185 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1186 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1187 * Better Icecast support.
1188 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1189 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1192 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1193 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1194 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1195 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1196 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1197 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1198 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1201 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1202 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1203 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1204 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1205 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1206 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1207 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1208 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1209 * Preliminary RTP support.
1210 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1215 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1216 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1218 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1219 - Improvements and help in preferences
1220 - New streaming wizard
1221 - Revised Disc Open menu
1223 - Improvements of the standard pages
1224 - Support for new commands
1225 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1228 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1229 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1232 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1233 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1234 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1235 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1236 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1237 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1238 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1239 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1240 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1243 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1245 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1246 * Support for Panther.
1247 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1248 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1251 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1252 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1253 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1254 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1255 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1256 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1257 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1258 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1261 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1262 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1263 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1266 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1269 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1270 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1271 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1272 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1275 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1276 --------------------------------
1279 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1282 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1283 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1286 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1287 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1290 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1293 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1294 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1297 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1300 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1303 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1304 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1308 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1309 --------------------------------
1312 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1313 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1317 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1318 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1319 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1321 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1322 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1325 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1328 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1331 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1332 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1336 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1337 --------------------------------
1340 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1341 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1345 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1346 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1347 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1348 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1349 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1352 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1353 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1354 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1357 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1358 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1359 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1362 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1363 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1364 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1365 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1366 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1369 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1370 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1371 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1374 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1377 * Improved build system.
1378 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1379 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1380 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1381 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1384 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1385 --------------------------------
1388 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1391 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1392 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1393 * Video 4 Linux support
1394 * CD Digital Audio support
1395 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1398 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1399 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1400 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1401 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1404 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1405 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1406 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1407 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1408 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1409 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1410 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1413 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1414 * New HTTP remote control interface
1417 * 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.
1418 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1419 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1420 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1423 * New reset option for the preferences
1424 * You can set your language in the prefences
1425 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1426 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1427 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1428 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1431 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1432 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1433 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1436 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1437 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1438 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1439 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1440 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1441 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1442 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1443 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1444 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1445 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1448 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1449 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1450 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1451 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1452 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1453 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1454 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1457 * Interface localization
1458 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1459 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1460 * New full-featured Preferences window
1463 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1464 --------------------------------
1467 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1468 * support for skins at the interface level
1469 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1470 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1471 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1472 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1473 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1476 * fixed HTTP redirects
1477 * support for opening an entire directory
1478 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1479 * new video4linux access plug-in
1480 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1483 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1484 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1485 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1488 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1489 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1490 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1491 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1492 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1493 * new codec for raw I420 video
1494 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1497 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1498 (although it still misses some important features)
1499 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1502 * new HTTP output support
1503 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1504 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1507 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1510 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1513 * reorderable playlist
1514 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1515 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1516 * support for mono audio output devices
1517 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1518 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1519 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1520 * the messages window remembers more lines
1521 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1522 * http and ogg stream output options
1523 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1526 * new skinnable interface
1527 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1529 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1530 * support for FLAC audio format
1531 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1533 * network tab in the interface
1534 * "apply" handling in preferences
1537 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1538 ---------------------------------
1541 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1542 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1543 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1544 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1546 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1547 * DTS S/PDIF support
1550 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1551 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1552 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1553 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1556 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1557 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1560 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1563 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1566 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1568 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1569 * rc interface is now fully useable
1570 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1573 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1574 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1575 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1576 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1577 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1579 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1580 * support for mouse gestures
1581 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1584 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1585 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1588 * improved ID3 tag detection
1589 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1590 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1591 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1593 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1596 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1597 ---------------------------------
1600 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1601 English was set as the preferred language
1604 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1605 --------------------------------
1608 * new mouse gesture interface
1609 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1613 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1614 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1615 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1618 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1619 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1623 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1626 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1627 without the user consent
1630 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1632 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1633 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1634 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1637 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1638 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1639 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1640 * playlist enhancements
1641 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1642 * new step forward/step backward commands
1643 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1644 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1645 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1648 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1649 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1650 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1653 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1654 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1657 * native video output is working again
1658 * only commandline interface support
1659 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1662 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1663 --------------------------------
1666 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1667 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1668 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1669 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1670 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1671 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1672 and A/52 streams are supported)
1673 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1678 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1679 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1680 * VCD entry points support
1681 * VCD image file support
1684 * support for *.asf format
1685 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1686 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1687 * support for ogg encapsulation
1688 * support for raw DV format
1689 * support for *.wav format
1690 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1693 Stream discovery & playlists:
1694 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1695 * support for .m3u file format
1696 * support for .asx file format
1697 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1700 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1701 (only available with the .avi demux)
1702 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1703 * support for raw PCM data
1704 * support for Cinepak video codec
1705 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1706 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1707 * support for Xvid codec
1708 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1709 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1710 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1712 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1714 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1717 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1720 * new WxWindows interface
1721 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1722 device and the channels configuration
1723 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1724 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1725 format that VLC can play
1726 * new swedish translation
1727 * enhancements of the playlist window
1728 * new messages window to see debug info
1729 * fixed a few crashes
1732 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1733 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1734 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1735 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working