3 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6-svn (not released yet)
4 --------------------------------------------------
15 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
16 ---------------------------------
19 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
20 * Support for downloading updates
24 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
25 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
26 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
27 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
29 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
30 * Improved subtitles encoding support
31 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
34 * Cook (Real audio) support
36 Playlist / Services discovery:
37 * XSPF playlist support
39 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
42 * New JACK audio output
46 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
47 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
48 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
49 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
50 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
51 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
54 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
57 * System to inform the user and request information
62 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
63 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
64 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
67 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
68 - Improved playlist handling
69 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
71 - Embedded Video output
72 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
73 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
74 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
75 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
76 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
78 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
79 - A bunch of new RPN functions
82 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
85 * Mac-Intel compatibility
86 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
87 * Growl "Now playing" support
90 * Ability to log to syslog
91 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
94 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
96 * A bit more automatic testing
98 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
99 ---------------------------------
102 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
103 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
106 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
107 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
110 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
113 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
114 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
120 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
122 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
123 --------------------------------
126 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
130 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
131 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
132 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
135 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
136 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
137 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
138 * GnomeVFS input module
139 * Support for RTP packet reordering
140 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
143 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
144 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
145 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
148 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
149 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
155 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
156 Mixer and Dolby Surround
159 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
160 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
161 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
164 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
166 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
167 - New extended controls panel
168 - New bookmarks window
169 - Fixed playlist sorting
170 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
172 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
173 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
174 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
175 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
179 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
180 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
182 - Include macro to include other files
186 * Should now work outside IE as well
189 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
192 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
193 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
196 The following languages were added:
201 The following languages were re-added:
204 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
205 --------------------------------
208 * Rewrite of the playlist
210 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
211 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
212 * Preferences improvements:
213 - New organization, designed to improve usability
214 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
216 * Core image manipulation support
217 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
218 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
219 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
220 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
221 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
222 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
223 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
224 now separated by ':' instead of ','
225 * Access filter architecture
226 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
227 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
231 * Support for SOCKS proxy
232 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
233 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
234 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
235 * Better support for Kasenna streams
236 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
237 * Massive Matroska improvements
238 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
240 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
241 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
242 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
243 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
244 * Support for FTP over IPv6
247 * Dirac decoder and encoder
248 * PNG decoder/encoder
249 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
250 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
253 * New Record and Timeshift filters
256 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
257 * Brand new SAP module
258 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
259 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
260 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
261 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
262 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
263 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
267 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
270 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
271 * Image file video output (png)
272 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
273 * Improvements to wall video filter
274 * Support for font color and opacity
280 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
281 - Seeking support in VoD streams
282 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
286 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
287 - Improved preferences
288 - Improvements to the wizard
289 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
291 - Redesigned playlist
292 - Improved preferences
294 - Support for multiple actions
297 - Support for the new playlist system
299 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
302 * Screensaver disabling fix
303 * DirectShow tuner configuration
304 * Support for no-decoration windows
307 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
308 * The OpenGL video output is back
309 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
310 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
311 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
312 is not yet available in the new module
313 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
316 * Support for single-buffered overlay
325 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
328 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
331 The following languages were added:
337 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
338 -----------------------------------------------------
341 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
342 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
345 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
346 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
347 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
350 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
353 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
356 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
359 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
360 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
361 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
365 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
367 * Support of playlist group announcement
369 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
370 -----------------------------------------------------
373 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
374 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
375 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
376 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
377 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
378 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
381 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
382 (Stream your desktop)
383 * Improved DVD support:
384 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
385 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
386 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
387 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
388 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
389 (selection of titles/chapters).
392 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
393 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
394 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
395 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
396 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
397 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
398 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
399 * Improved Ogg demuxer
400 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
401 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
404 * G.726 audio support
405 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
406 * MPEG-4 text support
407 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
408 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
409 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
413 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
414 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
415 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
416 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
417 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
418 * DVB subtitles encoder
419 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
420 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
422 * Text track muxing for mp4
423 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
424 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
425 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
426 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
427 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
430 * H.263 RTP streaming support
431 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
432 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
435 * New audio equalizer filter
436 * Very trivial volume normalizer
437 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
438 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
439 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
442 * Roku HD1000 Video output
443 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
444 with support for effects.
445 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
446 - New filters can be streamed.
447 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
448 - Centralized scaling and blending
450 - "time", to display current time
451 - "marq", to display a marquee
454 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
455 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
456 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
457 * A few skins2 improvements
458 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
459 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
460 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
461 * Improved CORBA control module
464 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
465 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
466 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
469 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
470 * Experimental SVG rendering module
471 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
474 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
475 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
476 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
477 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
478 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
481 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
484 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
485 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
488 * Server/client network synchronization module
489 * VBrick streams fully supported
490 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
493 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
494 --------------------------------
497 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
498 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
499 * Improved HTTP daemon.
500 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
503 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
504 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
505 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
506 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
507 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
508 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
509 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
512 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
513 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
514 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
515 * Improved directory access module.
516 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
517 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
518 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
519 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
520 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
523 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
524 * mmsh streaming fixes.
525 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
528 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
529 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
530 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
533 * Improved session announcement system.
534 * Minimize threads usage by default.
535 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
536 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
537 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
538 * Improved transrater.
539 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
540 * New configuration system.
541 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
544 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
545 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
546 * Supports live streams and VoD.
547 * Supports scheduling.
548 * Telnet interface for vlm.
549 * HTTP interface for vlm.
552 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
553 - Ability to embed video output.
554 - Support for bitmap fonts.
555 - Lots of improvements.
556 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
557 - New design and set of icons.
558 - Ability to embed video output.
559 - Support for hotkeys.
560 - Support for bookmarks.
562 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
563 - Better hotkeys handling.
566 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
567 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
568 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
569 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
572 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
573 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
574 * Improved Windows installer.
580 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
581 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
583 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
584 ---------------------------------
587 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
588 * Playing MOD files is working now.
591 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
592 ---------------------------------
595 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
596 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
599 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
600 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
601 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
602 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
605 * Internal improvments
606 * Improved import/export
609 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
611 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
612 small and strange formats.
614 * New MOD audio demux.
615 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
616 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
617 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
618 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
621 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
622 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
623 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
629 * New opengl video output plugin.
632 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
633 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
635 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
636 ---------------------------------
639 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
640 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
641 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
642 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
643 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
644 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
645 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
646 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
649 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
654 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
655 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
656 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
657 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
658 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
659 * Reworked DVB tuning.
660 * Better Icecast support.
661 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
662 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
665 * Support for Theora video encoding.
666 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
667 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
668 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
669 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
670 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
671 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
674 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
675 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
676 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
677 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
678 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
679 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
680 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
681 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
682 * Preliminary RTP support.
683 * Fixes to SAP announces.
688 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
689 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
691 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
692 - Improvements and help in preferences
693 - New streaming wizard
694 - Revised Disc Open menu
696 - Improvements of the standard pages
697 - Support for new commands
698 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
701 * Many fixes to the SAP module
702 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
705 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
706 * Text subtitles autodetection.
707 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
708 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
709 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
710 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
711 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
712 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
713 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
716 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
718 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
719 * Support for Panther.
720 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
721 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
724 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
725 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
726 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
727 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
728 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
729 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
730 * Multimonitor support (untested).
731 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
734 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
735 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
736 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
739 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
742 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
743 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
744 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
745 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
747 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
748 ---------------------------------
751 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
754 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
755 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
758 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
759 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
762 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
765 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
766 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
769 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
772 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
775 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
776 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
779 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
780 ---------------------------------
783 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
784 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
788 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
789 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
790 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
792 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
793 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
796 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
799 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
802 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
803 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
806 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
807 ---------------------------------
810 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
811 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
815 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
816 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
817 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
818 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
819 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
822 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
823 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
824 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
827 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
828 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
829 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
832 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
833 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
834 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
835 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
836 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
839 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
840 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
841 * A new CORBA control plugin.
844 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
847 * Improved build system.
848 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
849 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
850 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
851 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
854 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
855 ---------------------------------
858 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
861 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
862 * Fixed large file support on Windows
863 * Video 4 Linux support
864 * CD Digital Audio support
865 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
868 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
869 * Support for OpenDML avi files
870 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
871 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
874 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
875 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
876 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
877 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
878 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
879 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
880 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
883 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
884 * New HTTP remote control interface
887 * 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.
888 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
889 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
890 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
893 * New reset option for the preferences
894 * You can set your language in the prefences
895 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
896 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
897 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
898 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
901 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
902 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
903 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
906 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
907 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
908 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
909 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
910 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
911 * New icons by Davor Orel.
912 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
913 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
914 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
915 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
918 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
919 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
920 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
921 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
922 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
923 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
924 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
927 * Interface localization
928 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
929 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
930 * New full-featured Preferences window
932 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
933 ---------------------------------
936 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
937 * support for skins at the interface level
938 * new OSD module using Freetype2
939 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
940 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
941 input level before dropping out of date frames.
942 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
945 * fixed HTTP redirects
946 * support for opening an entire directory
947 * EOF should be detected more reliably
948 * new video4linux access plug-in
949 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
952 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
953 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
954 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
957 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
958 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
959 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
960 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
961 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
962 * new codec for raw I420 video
963 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
966 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
967 (although it still misses some important features)
968 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
971 * new HTTP output support
972 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
973 * fixed AV synchronization issues
976 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
979 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
982 * reorderable playlist
983 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
984 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
985 * support for mono audio output devices
986 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
987 * fixed several cosmetic issues
988 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
989 * the messages window remembers more lines
990 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
991 * http and ogg stream output options
992 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
995 * new skinnable interface
996 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
998 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
999 * support for FLAC audio format
1000 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1002 * network tab in the interface
1003 * "apply" handling in preferences
1006 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1007 ---------------------------------
1010 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1011 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1012 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1013 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1015 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1016 * DTS S/PDIF support
1019 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1020 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1021 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1022 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1025 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1026 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1029 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1032 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1035 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1037 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1038 * rc interface is now fully useable
1039 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1042 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1043 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1044 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1045 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1046 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1048 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1049 * support for mouse gestures
1050 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1053 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1054 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1057 * improved ID3 tag detection
1058 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1059 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1060 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1062 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1065 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1066 ---------------------------------
1069 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1070 English was set as the preferred language
1073 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1074 --------------------------------
1077 * new mouse gesture interface
1078 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1082 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1083 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1084 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1087 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1088 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1092 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1095 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1096 without the user consent
1099 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1101 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1102 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1103 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1106 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1107 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1108 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1109 * playlist enhancements
1110 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1111 * new step forward/step backward commands
1112 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1113 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1114 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1117 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1118 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1119 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1122 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1123 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1126 * native video output is working again
1127 * only commandline interface support
1128 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1131 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1132 --------------------------------
1135 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1136 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1137 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1138 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1139 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1140 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1141 and A/52 streams are supported)
1142 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1147 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1148 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1149 * VCD entry points support
1150 * VCD image file support
1153 * support for *.asf format
1154 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1155 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1156 * support for ogg encapsulation
1157 * support for raw DV format
1158 * support for *.wav format
1159 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1162 Stream discovery & playlists:
1163 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1164 * support for .m3u file format
1165 * support for .asx file format
1166 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1169 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1170 (only available with the .avi demux)
1171 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1172 * support for raw PCM data
1173 * support for Cinepak video codec
1174 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1175 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1176 * support for Xvid codec
1177 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1178 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1179 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1181 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1183 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1186 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1189 * new WxWindows interface
1190 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1191 device and the channels configuration
1192 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1193 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1194 format that VLC can play
1195 * new swedish translation
1196 * enhancements of the playlist window
1197 * new messages window to see debug info
1198 * fixed a few crashes
1201 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1202 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1203 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1204 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working