1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
6 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
7 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
8 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
9 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
10 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
11 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
12 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
13 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
14 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
15 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
16 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
17 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
18 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
19 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
20 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
21 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
22 --http-crl (optional CRL).
23 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
24 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
25 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
26 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
27 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
28 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
30 Important changes for packagers:
31 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
32 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
33 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
34 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
35 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
36 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
37 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
38 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
39 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
41 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
42 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
45 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
46 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
47 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
48 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
49 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
50 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
53 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
54 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
55 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
56 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
57 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
58 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
59 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
60 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
61 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
62 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
63 * PulseAudio audio input support
64 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
65 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
66 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
67 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
68 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
71 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
72 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
73 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
74 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
75 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
76 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
77 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
78 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
79 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
80 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
81 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
82 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
83 * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
84 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
87 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
88 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
89 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
90 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
91 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
92 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
93 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
94 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling
95 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
98 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
99 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
100 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
101 * Qt: small look improvements
102 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
103 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
104 and important cleanups and optimisations
105 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
106 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
107 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
108 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
109 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
110 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
111 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
112 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
113 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
114 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
115 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
116 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
117 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
118 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
121 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
122 * New video output for iOS platform
123 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
124 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
125 * Various vmem improvements
126 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
128 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
129 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
130 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
132 Audio Output and Filters:
133 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
134 * New audio output in memory (amem)
135 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
136 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
137 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
138 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
139 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
140 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
143 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
144 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
145 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
146 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
147 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
148 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
149 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
150 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
151 * New anti-flickering filter
152 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
153 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
154 blackbox and customizable shadow
155 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
156 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
159 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
160 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
161 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
162 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
163 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
164 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
165 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
166 * Major rework of VoD support
167 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
168 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
169 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
170 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
171 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
172 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
173 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
174 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
175 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
176 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
179 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
180 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
183 * New capabilities for libVLC:
184 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
185 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
186 list of available audio and video filters
187 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
188 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
189 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
192 * asademux: use libass only
193 * subsass: use libass
194 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
195 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
197 * upnp: use upnp_intel
198 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
199 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
200 * removal of the noise filter
201 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
202 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
203 removed in Growl's next release, too.
204 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
207 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
208 ----------------------------------
211 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
212 including support for OS X Lion
213 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
214 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
217 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
220 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
221 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
222 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
225 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
228 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
229 ----------------------------------
232 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
233 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
236 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
237 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
238 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
239 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
240 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
242 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
243 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
244 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
246 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
247 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
250 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
253 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
256 * Fix quitting on Linux
257 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
261 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
264 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
267 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
268 ---------------------------------
270 Windows and Mac OS X:
271 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
274 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
275 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
278 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
281 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
284 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
286 Miscellaneous fixes in:
287 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
289 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
290 * RTP output and XML export
291 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
295 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
296 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
297 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
298 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
301 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
302 --------------------------------
304 Windows and Mac OS X:
305 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
308 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
311 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
312 * Improve Apple Remote handling
313 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
314 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
315 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
316 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
319 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
320 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
324 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
325 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
326 * New Luganda Translation
329 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
330 --------------------------------
333 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
336 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
337 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
338 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
339 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
342 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
344 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
345 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
346 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
347 * mp4 demuxer improvements
348 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
349 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
350 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
351 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
353 Miscellaneous fixes in:
354 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
355 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
356 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
357 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
358 * Configure and build system improvements
359 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
362 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
363 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
364 * New icelandic translation
367 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
368 --------------------------------
371 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
375 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
376 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
377 and stability reasons
380 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
384 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
387 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
388 ----------------------------------
391 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
394 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
395 ---------------------------------
398 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
399 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
400 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
401 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
404 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
407 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
408 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
409 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
410 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
413 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
414 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
415 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
417 Subtitles and renderer:
418 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
419 * Mark more freetype options as safe
420 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
421 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
422 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
425 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
426 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
427 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
428 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
431 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
432 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
435 * KDE device solid actions
437 * Transcode integer overflow
438 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
439 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
442 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
443 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
444 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
447 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
448 ----------------------------------
451 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
455 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
458 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
461 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
462 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
463 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
464 * Taglib thread-safety fix
467 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
471 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
474 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
477 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
478 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
480 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
484 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
485 * Miscellaneous fixes
488 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
489 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
491 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
492 * New Asturian translation
495 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
496 ----------------------------------
499 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
501 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
504 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
507 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
508 * Various fixes for Windows
511 * New Armenian translation
512 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
513 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
516 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
517 --------------------------------
520 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
522 * Fix folders opening from the interface
525 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
526 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
529 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
530 --------------------------------
533 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
534 * fix for podcasts parsing
535 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
538 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
539 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
542 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
543 * fix m3u playlists exports
546 * fix video autoresize behaviour
549 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
552 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
555 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
558 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
561 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
562 --------------------------------
565 * Avformat fps displaying fix
566 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
569 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
570 of mono streams, especially on Windows
573 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
574 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
575 * fix console output encoding
577 Interface and extensions:
578 * Youtube and other scripts updates
579 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
582 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
583 --------------------------------
586 * New capabilities for libVLC:
587 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
588 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
589 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
590 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
591 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
592 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
593 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
594 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
595 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
596 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
597 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
598 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
599 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
600 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
601 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
605 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
606 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
607 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
608 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
609 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
612 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
615 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
616 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
617 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
621 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
624 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
625 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
626 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
629 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
630 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
631 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
632 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
635 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
636 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
639 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
640 --------------------------------
642 Important changes for users:
643 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
644 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
646 Important changes for packagers:
647 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
648 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
649 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
650 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
651 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
653 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
655 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
656 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
657 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
658 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
659 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
662 * Support for the sftp protocol
663 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
664 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
665 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
666 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
667 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
670 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
671 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
672 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
674 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
675 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
676 * Invmem module improvements
677 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
678 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
679 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
680 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
681 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
682 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
683 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
684 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
685 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
686 * Support for VP8 codec
687 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
690 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
691 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
692 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
693 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
694 * Various EGP improvements
695 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
696 * Metadata and cover art improvements
699 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
700 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
701 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
702 * Podcast images are now displayed
705 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
706 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
707 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
708 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
709 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
710 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
711 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
712 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
713 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
714 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
715 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
718 * New content extensions lua framework
721 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
722 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
723 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
724 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
725 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
726 * NEON assembly audio converter module
727 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
730 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
731 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
732 * Service discovery based on libudev
733 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
736 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
737 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
738 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
739 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
740 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
741 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
742 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
745 * New smem module, streaming to memory
746 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
747 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
750 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
752 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
753 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
756 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
759 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
760 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
761 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
762 by Andy Matuschak et al.
763 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
764 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
765 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
768 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
769 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
772 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
773 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
774 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
778 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
779 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
780 * Improved Solaris port
783 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
784 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
787 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
788 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
789 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
790 * transrate: broken since too long
791 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
792 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
793 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
794 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
795 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
796 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
797 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
798 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
799 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
800 * cddax: use cdda instead.
801 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
802 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
803 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
804 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
807 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
808 --------------------------------
811 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
813 Decoders/Packetizers:
814 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
817 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
818 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
819 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
820 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
821 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
824 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
825 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
828 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
829 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
832 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
833 and Walloon translations updated
834 * Sinhala translation started
837 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
838 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
841 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
842 --------------------------------
845 * SubRip extra styles improvements
846 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
849 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
852 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
853 increase performance and fix x264 issues
856 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
857 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
858 Russian, Slovak translation updates
859 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
862 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
863 --------------------------------
866 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
867 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
870 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
871 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
874 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
875 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
878 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
881 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
882 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
885 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
886 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
889 * New Walloon translation
890 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
893 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
894 --------------------------------
897 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
898 regressions in most popular drivers
899 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
902 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
903 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
904 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
907 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
908 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
911 * Update for appletrailers lua script
912 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
913 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
914 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
915 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
918 * New udev module for linux
921 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
924 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
927 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
928 --------------------------------
931 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
932 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
933 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
936 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
937 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
940 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
941 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
944 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
947 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
948 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
949 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
950 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
953 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
954 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
955 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
956 - no support for Goom and SDL
957 - limited text rendering support
958 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
961 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
962 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
963 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
964 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
965 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
966 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
967 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
968 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
969 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
973 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
976 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
979 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
980 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
981 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
982 Arabic and French translation updates
985 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
986 --------------------------------
989 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
990 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
991 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
992 * Fix Dailymotion access script
993 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
994 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
997 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
998 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1002 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1003 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1004 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1007 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1010 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1011 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1014 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1015 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1016 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1017 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1018 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1019 * Fix various crashes
1022 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1024 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1028 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1029 ---------------------------------
1033 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1034 See 'Access:' for more info.
1035 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1038 * Instantaneous pausing
1039 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1040 * Finer speed control
1041 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1042 * Timeshift for most medias
1043 * RTSP trickplay support
1044 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1047 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1048 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1049 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1050 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1051 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1052 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1053 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1054 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1055 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1056 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1059 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1060 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1061 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1062 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1063 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1064 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1065 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1068 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1069 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1072 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1073 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1074 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1075 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1076 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1077 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1078 * DVB scanning on linux
1079 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1080 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1081 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1082 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1083 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1084 * MTP device access on Unix
1085 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1086 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1089 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1090 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1091 Windows and Mac OS X.
1094 * Export the playlist in HTML
1095 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1096 * Better metadata handling and reading
1098 Linux/Windows interface:
1099 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1100 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1101 * Recently played items list
1102 * Interface toolbar customizations
1103 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1104 - More menus actions
1105 - Finer speed slider
1106 - Improvements on many dialogs
1107 - New dialog for plugins listing
1108 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1109 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1110 * Better integration in GTK environments
1113 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1114 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1115 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1116 * Additional usability improvements
1119 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1120 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1121 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1122 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1123 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1126 * New Maemo port with:
1127 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1128 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1131 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1134 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1135 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1136 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1137 * Support for latest iSight models
1140 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1141 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1144 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1145 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1146 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1147 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1148 The old image video output has been removed.
1149 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1150 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1153 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1161 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1162 --------------------------------------
1168 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1169 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1170 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1171 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1172 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1173 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1174 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1176 Various fixes to the following modules:
1179 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1180 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1181 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1183 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1188 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1189 ---------------------------------
1192 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1193 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1196 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1197 ---------------------------------
1200 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1203 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1206 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1207 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1208 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1209 main controller window.
1210 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1213 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1218 * Updates of other localizations
1221 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1222 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1223 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1224 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1225 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1228 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1229 ---------------------------------
1232 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1234 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1237 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1238 --------------------------------
1243 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1244 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1247 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1248 --------------------------------
1250 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1251 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1254 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1257 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1258 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1261 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1262 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1265 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1266 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1267 * Various fixed in playlist
1270 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1273 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1276 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1277 ------------------------------------
1279 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1280 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1283 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1284 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1285 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1288 * Stability fix for the video output.
1291 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1292 --------------------------------
1295 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1296 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1297 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1298 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1299 * Fixed update system bugs
1300 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1303 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1304 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1305 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1306 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1307 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1308 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1309 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1310 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1311 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1312 modern Mac OS X versions
1315 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1316 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1318 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1319 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1322 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1323 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1324 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1325 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1326 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1327 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1330 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1331 --------------------------------
1333 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1334 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1335 * Multiple bugfixes.
1338 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1339 --------------------------------
1341 * Multiple bug fixes.
1344 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1345 ---------------------------------
1349 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1350 recent to work correctly
1351 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1352 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1353 edit the ".hosts" file.
1354 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1355 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1356 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1357 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1358 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1359 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1360 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1361 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1362 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1363 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1364 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1365 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1366 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1367 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1368 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1369 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1370 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1371 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1372 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1373 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1374 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1375 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1376 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1377 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1378 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1379 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1380 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1381 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1382 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1383 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1384 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1385 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1386 and postproc modules.
1387 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1388 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1389 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1390 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1392 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1393 filter. For example:
1394 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1395 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1397 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1398 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1404 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1406 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1407 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1410 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1411 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1413 * Shoutcast TV listings
1414 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1416 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1417 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1419 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1422 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1423 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1424 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1425 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1426 * JACK audio input support
1427 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1428 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1429 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1430 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1431 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1432 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1433 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1434 (available as a separate download).
1435 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1436 * RTMP input support
1437 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1438 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1439 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1441 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1442 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1445 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1446 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1447 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1448 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1450 * APEv1/2 tags support
1451 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1452 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1454 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1455 * TiVo Series 2 support
1456 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1461 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1462 * Flash Screen Video support
1463 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1464 * DosBox Capture support
1465 * Karl Morton's Video support
1466 * limited atrac3 support
1468 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1469 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1470 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1471 * H.264 PAFF support
1472 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1473 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1474 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1475 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1476 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1479 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1480 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1481 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1482 * AQTitle subtitles support
1483 * MKV USF subtitles support
1484 * HTML-based subtitles support
1485 * MPSub subtitles support
1486 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1487 * MPL2 subtitles support
1488 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1489 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1490 * Realtext subtitle support
1491 * DKS subtitle support
1492 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1493 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1496 * Flash Screen Video support
1497 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1499 Video outputs and filters:
1500 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1501 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1502 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1503 * New puzzle video output filter
1504 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1505 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1507 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1508 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1509 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1510 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1511 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1512 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1513 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1514 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1515 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1516 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1517 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1518 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1519 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1520 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1522 Audio outputs and filters:
1523 * Replay gain support
1524 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1525 new scaletempo audio filter)
1526 * New spatializer audio filter
1527 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1530 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1531 * New RTP payload formats:
1532 * Speex voice audio codec
1533 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1534 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1535 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1536 * DCCP transport for RTP
1537 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1542 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1543 end-user suitable way.
1544 * Improved user interaction
1545 * Improved mouse gestures
1546 * Vastly improved Update checker
1547 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1549 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1550 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1552 * Improved video output features
1553 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1554 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1555 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1556 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1557 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1559 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1560 if libncursesw is available.
1561 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1562 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1563 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1565 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1566 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1567 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1568 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1569 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1570 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1571 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1572 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1575 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1576 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1577 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1580 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1581 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1582 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1583 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1584 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1585 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1588 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1589 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1599 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1600 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1601 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1604 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1605 ----------------------------------
1608 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1611 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1612 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1613 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1614 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1615 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1616 * Updated Polish translation
1619 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1620 ----------------------------------
1623 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1624 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1625 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1628 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1629 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1630 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1631 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1632 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1633 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1634 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1635 to an unexpected application termination
1636 * New Serbian translation
1637 * Updated Romanian translation
1640 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1641 ----------------------------------
1644 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1645 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1646 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1647 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1648 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1649 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1650 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1651 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1654 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1655 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1656 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1657 * Fixed AAC resampling
1658 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1659 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1662 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1663 ----------------------------------
1666 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1667 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1668 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1669 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1670 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1673 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1674 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1675 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1676 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1677 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1680 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1681 ----------------------------------
1684 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1685 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1688 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1689 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1690 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1691 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1693 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1697 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1700 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1703 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1706 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1709 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1710 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1711 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1712 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1713 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1715 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1716 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1717 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1718 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1721 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1724 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1725 ----------------------------------
1728 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1729 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1730 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1732 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1733 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1735 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1736 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1739 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1741 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1742 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1743 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1744 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1745 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1746 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1747 two different movies
1748 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1749 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1750 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1753 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1756 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1757 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1758 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1759 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1762 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1763 ----------------------------------
1765 Various bugfixes, notably:
1766 * Windows Vista compatibility
1767 * Cropping in Direct3D
1768 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1769 * RSS filter string overflow
1771 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1773 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1774 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1777 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1778 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1781 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1784 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1787 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1790 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1791 ----------------------------------
1793 Various bugfixes, notably:
1794 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1795 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1796 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1797 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1798 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1799 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1802 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1803 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1806 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1808 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1809 * Diverse usability improvements
1810 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1811 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1812 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1815 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1816 ---------------------------------
1818 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1819 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1822 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1825 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1826 --------------------------------
1829 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1832 * Support for RTSP authentication
1833 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1834 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1835 * ATSC support for DVB input
1836 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1837 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1838 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1841 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1842 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1843 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1844 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1845 * Matroska WavPack support
1846 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1847 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1848 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1851 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1852 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1853 * Improved libcaca support
1857 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1858 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1860 * Systray support in skins
1862 * Support for Apple Remote control
1863 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1864 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1865 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1866 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1868 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1871 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1872 Windows 9x/ME users:
1873 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1874 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1875 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1876 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1877 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1879 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1880 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1889 * Updates to the libvlc API
1890 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1893 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1894 --------------------------------
1897 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1898 * Support for downloading updates
1902 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1903 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1904 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1905 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1907 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1908 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1909 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1912 * Cook (Real audio) support
1914 Playlist / Services discovery:
1915 * XSPF playlist support
1917 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1920 * New JACK audio output
1923 * New video filters:
1924 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1925 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1926 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1927 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1928 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1929 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1932 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1935 * System to inform the user and request information
1936 - HTTP authentication
1940 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1941 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1942 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1945 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1946 - Improved playlist handling
1947 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1949 - Embedded Video output
1950 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1951 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1952 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1953 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1954 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1956 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1957 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1960 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1963 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1964 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1965 * Growl "Now playing" support
1968 * Ability to log to syslog
1969 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1972 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1974 * A bit more automatic testing
1977 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1978 ---------------------------------
1981 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1982 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1985 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1986 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1989 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1992 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1993 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1999 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2002 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2003 --------------------------------
2006 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2010 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2011 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2012 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2015 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2016 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2017 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2018 * GnomeVFS input module
2019 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2020 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2023 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2024 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2025 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2028 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2029 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2035 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2036 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2039 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2040 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2041 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2044 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2046 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2047 - New extended controls panel
2048 - New bookmarks window
2049 - Fixed playlist sorting
2050 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2052 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2053 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2054 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2055 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2059 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2060 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2062 - Include macro to include other files
2066 * Should now work outside IE as well
2069 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2072 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2073 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2076 The following languages were added:
2080 * Simplified Chinese
2081 The following languages were re-added:
2085 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2086 --------------------------------
2089 * Rewrite of the playlist
2091 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2092 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2093 * Preferences improvements:
2094 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2095 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2097 * Core image manipulation support
2098 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2099 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2100 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2101 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2102 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2103 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2104 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2105 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2106 * Access filter architecture
2107 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2108 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2112 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2113 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2114 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2115 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2116 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2117 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2118 * Massive Matroska improvements
2119 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2121 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2122 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2123 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2124 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2125 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2127 Decoders / Encoders:
2128 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2129 * PNG decoder/encoder
2130 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2131 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2134 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2137 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2138 * Brand new SAP module
2139 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2140 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2141 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2142 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2143 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2144 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2148 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2151 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2152 * Image file video output (png)
2153 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2154 * Improvements to wall video filter
2155 * Support for font color and opacity
2161 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2162 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2163 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2167 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2168 - Improved preferences
2169 - Improvements to the wizard
2170 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2172 - Redesigned playlist
2173 - Improved preferences
2175 - Support for multiple actions
2178 - Support for the new playlist system
2180 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2183 * Screensaver disabling fix
2184 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2185 * Support for no-decoration windows
2188 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2189 * The OpenGL video output is back
2190 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2191 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2192 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2193 is not yet available in the new module
2194 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2197 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2206 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2209 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2212 The following languages were added:
2218 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2219 --------------------------------
2222 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2223 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2226 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2227 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2228 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2231 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2234 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2237 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2240 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2241 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2242 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2246 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2248 * Support of playlist group announcement
2251 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2252 --------------------------------
2255 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2256 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2257 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2258 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2259 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2260 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2263 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2264 (Stream your desktop)
2265 * Improved DVD support:
2266 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2267 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2268 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2269 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2270 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2271 (selection of titles/chapters).
2274 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2275 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2276 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2277 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2278 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2279 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2280 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2281 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2282 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2283 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2286 * G.726 audio support
2287 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2288 * MPEG-4 text support
2289 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2290 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2291 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2295 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2296 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2297 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2298 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2299 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2300 * DVB subtitles encoder
2301 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2302 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2304 * Text track muxing for mp4
2305 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2306 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2307 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2308 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2309 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2310 * Improved ASF muxer
2312 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2313 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2314 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2317 * New audio equalizer filter
2318 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2319 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2320 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2321 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2324 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2325 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2326 with support for effects.
2327 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2328 - New filters can be streamed.
2329 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2330 - Centralized scaling and blending
2332 - "time", to display current time
2333 - "marq", to display a marquee
2336 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2337 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2338 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2339 * A few skins2 improvements
2340 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2341 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2342 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2343 * Improved CORBA control module
2346 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2347 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2348 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2351 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2352 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2353 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2356 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2357 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2358 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2359 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2360 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2363 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2366 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2367 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2370 * Server/client network synchronization module
2371 * VBrick streams fully supported
2372 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2376 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2377 --------------------------------
2380 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2381 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2382 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2383 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2386 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2387 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2388 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2389 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2390 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2391 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2392 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2395 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2396 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2397 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2398 * Improved directory access module.
2399 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2400 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2401 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2402 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2403 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2406 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2407 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2408 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2411 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2412 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2413 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2416 * Improved session announcement system.
2417 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2418 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2419 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2420 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2421 * Improved transrater.
2422 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2423 * New configuration system.
2424 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2427 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2428 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2429 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2430 * Supports scheduling.
2431 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2432 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2435 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2436 - Ability to embed video output.
2437 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2438 - Lots of improvements.
2439 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2440 - New design and set of icons.
2441 - Ability to embed video output.
2442 - Support for hotkeys.
2443 - Support for bookmarks.
2445 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2446 - Better hotkeys handling.
2449 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2450 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2451 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2452 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2455 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2456 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2457 * Improved Windows installer.
2463 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2464 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2467 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2468 ---------------------------------
2471 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2472 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2475 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2476 --------------------------------
2479 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2480 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2483 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2484 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2485 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2486 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2489 * Internal improvments
2490 * Improved import/export
2493 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2495 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2496 small and strange formats.
2498 * New MOD audio demux.
2499 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2500 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2501 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2502 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2505 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2506 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2507 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2513 * New opengl video output plugin.
2516 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2517 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2520 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2521 --------------------------------
2524 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2525 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2526 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2527 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2528 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2529 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2530 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2531 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2534 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2539 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2540 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2541 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2542 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2543 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2544 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2545 * Better Icecast support.
2546 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2547 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2550 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2551 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2552 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2553 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2554 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2555 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2556 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2559 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2560 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2561 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2562 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2563 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2564 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2565 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2566 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2567 * Preliminary RTP support.
2568 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2573 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2574 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2576 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2577 - Improvements and help in preferences
2578 - New streaming wizard
2579 - Revised Disc Open menu
2581 - Improvements of the standard pages
2582 - Support for new commands
2583 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2586 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2587 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2590 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2591 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2592 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2593 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2594 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2595 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2596 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2597 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2598 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2601 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2603 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2604 * Support for Panther.
2605 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2606 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2609 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2610 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2611 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2612 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2613 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2614 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2615 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2616 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2619 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2620 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2621 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2624 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2627 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2628 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2629 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2630 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2633 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2634 --------------------------------
2637 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2640 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2641 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2644 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2645 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2648 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2651 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2652 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2655 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2658 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2661 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2662 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2666 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2667 --------------------------------
2670 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2671 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2675 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2676 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2677 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2679 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2680 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2683 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2686 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2689 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2690 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2694 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2695 --------------------------------
2698 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2699 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2703 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2704 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2705 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2706 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2707 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2710 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2711 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2712 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2715 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2716 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2717 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2720 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2721 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2722 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2723 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2724 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2727 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2728 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2729 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2732 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2735 * Improved build system.
2736 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2737 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2738 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2739 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2742 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2743 --------------------------------
2746 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2749 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2750 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2751 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2752 * Video 4 Linux support
2753 * CD Digital Audio support
2754 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2757 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2758 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2759 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2760 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2763 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2764 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2765 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2766 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2767 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2768 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2769 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2772 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2773 * New HTTP remote control interface
2776 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2777 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2778 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2779 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2780 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2783 * New reset option for the preferences
2784 * You can set your language in the prefences
2785 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2786 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2787 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2788 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2791 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2792 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2793 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2796 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2797 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2798 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2799 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2800 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2801 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2802 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2803 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2804 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2805 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2808 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2809 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2810 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2811 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2812 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2813 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2814 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2817 * Interface localization
2818 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2819 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2820 * New full-featured Preferences window
2823 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2824 --------------------------------
2827 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2828 * support for skins at the interface level
2829 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2830 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2831 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2832 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2833 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2836 * fixed HTTP redirects
2837 * support for opening an entire directory
2838 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2839 * new video4linux access plug-in
2840 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2843 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2844 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2845 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2848 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2849 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2850 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2851 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2852 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2853 * new codec for raw I420 video
2854 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2857 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2858 (although it still misses some important features)
2859 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2862 * new HTTP output support
2863 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2864 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2867 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2870 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2873 * reorderable playlist
2874 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2875 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2876 * support for mono audio output devices
2877 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2878 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2879 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2880 * the messages window remembers more lines
2881 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2882 * http and ogg stream output options
2883 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2886 * new skinnable interface
2887 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2889 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2890 * support for FLAC audio format
2891 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2893 * network tab in the interface
2894 * "apply" handling in preferences
2897 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2898 ---------------------------------
2901 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2902 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2903 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2904 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2906 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2907 * DTS S/PDIF support
2910 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2911 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2912 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2913 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2916 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2917 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2920 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2923 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2926 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2928 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2929 * rc interface is now fully useable
2930 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2933 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2934 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2935 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2936 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2937 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2939 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2940 * support for mouse gestures
2941 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2944 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2945 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2948 * improved ID3 tag detection
2949 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2950 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2951 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2953 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2956 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2957 ---------------------------------
2960 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2961 English was set as the preferred language
2964 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2965 --------------------------------
2968 * new mouse gesture interface
2969 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2973 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2974 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2975 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2978 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2979 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2983 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2986 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2987 without the user consent
2990 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2992 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2993 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2994 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2997 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2998 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2999 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3000 * playlist enhancements
3001 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3002 * new step forward/step backward commands
3003 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3004 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3005 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3008 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3009 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3010 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3013 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3014 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3017 * native video output is working again
3018 * only commandline interface support
3019 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3022 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3023 --------------------------------
3026 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3027 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3028 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3029 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3030 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3031 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3032 and A/52 streams are supported)
3033 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3038 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3039 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3040 * VCD entry points support
3041 * VCD image file support
3044 * support for *.asf format
3045 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3046 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3047 * support for ogg encapsulation
3048 * support for raw DV format
3049 * support for *.wav format
3050 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3053 Stream discovery & playlists:
3054 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3055 * support for .m3u file format
3056 * support for .asx file format
3057 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3060 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3061 (only available with the .avi demux)
3062 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3063 * support for raw PCM data
3064 * support for Cinepak video codec
3065 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3066 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3067 * support for Xvid codec
3068 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3069 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3070 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3072 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3074 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3077 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3080 * new WxWindows interface
3081 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3082 device and the channels configuration
3083 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3084 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3085 format that VLC can play
3086 * new swedish translation
3087 * enhancements of the playlist window
3088 * new messages window to see debug info
3089 * fixed a few crashes
3092 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3093 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3094 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3095 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working