1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
13 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
14 * Support for Ulead DV audio
15 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
16 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
17 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
20 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
23 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
24 * Major improvements in DASH support
25 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
26 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
29 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
30 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
31 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
32 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
33 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
34 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
35 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
36 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
37 * Support for more MJPEG streams
40 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
41 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
42 * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
45 * new remapping channel filter
46 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
47 * new VSXu visualization plugin
50 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
53 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
54 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
55 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
56 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
57 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
60 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
63 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
64 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
65 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
66 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
67 * Partial support for Qt5.0
70 * added a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
71 * added an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
72 VLC's internal volume level
73 * added an option to show next / previous buttons
74 * added an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
75 * added optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
77 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
80 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
81 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
82 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
83 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
84 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
86 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
87 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
90 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
91 --------------------------------
94 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
97 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
98 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
101 * Add GateKeeper support
102 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
103 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
104 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
107 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
110 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
111 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
112 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
113 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
114 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
117 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
118 --------------------------------
121 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
122 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
123 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
124 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
125 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
126 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
127 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
128 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
129 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
130 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
131 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
135 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
136 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
137 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
138 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
139 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
140 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
141 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
142 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
143 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
144 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
145 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
146 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
149 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
150 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
152 * Fix MP3 free format support
155 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
156 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
157 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
158 * Fix for DVB channels file support
159 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
162 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
163 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
165 Audio filters and output:
166 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
167 * Fix DirectSound device selection
168 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
169 * Do not apply volume in file output
170 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
171 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
174 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
175 the persistant media library
176 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
177 to the media library or the temporary playlist
178 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
179 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
180 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
181 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
182 press on the Play/Pause button
183 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
184 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
185 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
186 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
187 * Many Fullscreen fixes
188 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
189 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
190 Synchronization panel
191 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
192 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
193 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
194 * Fix crashes on exit
195 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
197 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
198 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
199 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
200 automatically reset on the first launch.
201 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
202 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
203 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
206 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
207 * Fixes for icecast SD
210 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
211 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
212 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
213 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
214 * Fix tags and file names display
215 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
218 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
219 * Fix for key events and focus loss
222 * Fix display of some buttons
223 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
224 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
227 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
228 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
229 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
232 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
233 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
234 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
235 Thai translations update
236 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
239 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
240 --------------------------------
243 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
244 * fix the samba module compilation
245 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
246 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
247 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
248 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
251 * Support for MXPEG files
252 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
253 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
256 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
257 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
258 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
261 * Fix ogm header creation
264 * limit spatializer filter distortions
265 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
268 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
269 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
270 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
271 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
274 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
277 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
278 * allow to hide the sidebar
279 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
280 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
281 * noticebly faster launch time
282 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
283 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
284 * improve track synchronization panel
285 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
286 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
289 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
290 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
291 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
292 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
295 * fix for menus display
296 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
297 * documentation update
300 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
301 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
304 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
305 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
306 * Update Jamendo selections
310 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
311 * fix a crash on VLM close
314 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
315 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
316 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
317 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
320 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
323 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
324 ---------------------------------
327 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
328 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
329 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
330 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
331 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
332 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
333 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
334 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
335 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
336 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
337 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
338 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
339 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
340 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
341 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
342 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
343 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
344 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
345 --http-crl (optional CRL).
346 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
347 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
348 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
349 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
350 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
351 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
352 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
354 Important changes for packagers:
355 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
356 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
357 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
358 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
359 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
360 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
361 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
362 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
363 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
364 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
367 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
368 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
369 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
370 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
371 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
372 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
373 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
376 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
377 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
378 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
379 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
380 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
381 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
382 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
383 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
384 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
385 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
386 * PulseAudio audio input support
387 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
388 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
389 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
390 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
391 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
392 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
393 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
394 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
397 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
398 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
399 are notably concerned.
400 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
401 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
402 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
403 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
404 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
405 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
406 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
407 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
408 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
409 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
410 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
411 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
412 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
413 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
414 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
417 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
418 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
419 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
420 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
421 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
422 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
423 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
424 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
425 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
426 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
427 * Improved support of tracker files
428 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
431 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
432 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
433 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
434 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
435 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
436 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
437 and important cleanups and optimisations
438 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
439 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
440 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
441 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
442 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
443 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
444 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
445 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
446 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
447 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
448 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
449 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
450 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
451 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
452 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
453 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
454 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
455 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
456 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
457 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
458 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
461 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
462 * New video output for iOS platform
463 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
464 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
465 * Various vmem improvements
466 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
467 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
468 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
469 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
470 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
471 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
473 Audio Output and Filters:
474 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
475 * New audio output in memory (amem)
476 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
477 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
478 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
479 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
480 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
481 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
482 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
483 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
486 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
487 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
488 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
489 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
490 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
491 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
492 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
493 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
494 * New anti-flickering filter
495 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
496 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
497 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
498 blackbox and customizable shadow.
499 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
500 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
501 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
504 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
505 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
506 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
507 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
508 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
509 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
510 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
511 * Major rework of VoD support
512 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
513 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
514 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
515 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
516 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
517 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
518 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
519 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
520 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
521 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
524 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
525 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
528 * New capabilities for libVLC:
529 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
530 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
531 list of available audio and video filters
532 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
533 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
534 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
537 * asademux, subsass: use libass
538 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
539 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
541 * upnp: use upnp_intel
542 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
543 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
544 * removal of the noise filter
545 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
546 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
547 removed in Growl's next release, too.
548 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
551 * Update of translations for most languages.
552 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
555 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
556 ----------------------------------
559 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
560 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
563 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
564 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
567 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
568 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
569 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
572 * Camtasia decoding fix.
575 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
576 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
579 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
582 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
583 ----------------------------------
586 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
587 including support for OS X Lion
588 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
589 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
592 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
595 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
596 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
597 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
600 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
603 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
604 ----------------------------------
607 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
608 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
611 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
612 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
613 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
614 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
615 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
617 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
618 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
619 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
621 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
622 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
625 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
628 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
631 * Fix quitting on Linux
632 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
636 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
639 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
642 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
643 ---------------------------------
645 Windows and Mac OS X:
646 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
649 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
650 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
653 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
656 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
659 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
661 Miscellaneous fixes in:
662 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
664 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
665 * RTP output and XML export
666 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
670 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
671 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
672 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
673 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
676 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
677 --------------------------------
679 Windows and Mac OS X:
680 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
683 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
686 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
687 * Improve Apple Remote handling
688 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
689 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
690 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
691 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
694 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
695 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
699 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
700 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
701 * New Luganda Translation
704 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
705 --------------------------------
708 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
711 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
712 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
713 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
714 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
717 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
719 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
720 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
721 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
722 * mp4 demuxer improvements
723 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
724 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
725 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
726 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
728 Miscellaneous fixes in:
729 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
730 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
731 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
732 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
733 * Configure and build system improvements
734 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
737 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
738 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
739 * New icelandic translation
742 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
743 --------------------------------
746 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
750 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
751 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
752 and stability reasons
755 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
759 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
762 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
763 ----------------------------------
766 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
769 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
770 ---------------------------------
773 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
774 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
775 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
776 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
779 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
782 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
783 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
784 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
785 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
788 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
789 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
790 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
792 Subtitles and renderer:
793 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
794 * Mark more freetype options as safe
795 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
796 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
797 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
800 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
801 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
802 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
803 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
806 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
807 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
810 * KDE device solid actions
812 * Transcode integer overflow
813 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
814 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
817 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
818 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
819 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
822 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
823 ----------------------------------
826 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
830 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
833 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
836 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
837 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
838 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
839 * Taglib thread-safety fix
842 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
846 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
849 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
852 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
853 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
855 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
859 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
860 * Miscellaneous fixes
863 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
864 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
866 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
867 * New Asturian translation
870 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
871 ----------------------------------
874 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
876 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
879 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
882 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
883 * Various fixes for Windows
886 * New Armenian translation
887 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
888 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
891 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
892 --------------------------------
895 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
897 * Fix folders opening from the interface
900 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
901 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
904 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
905 --------------------------------
908 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
909 * fix for podcasts parsing
910 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
913 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
914 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
917 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
918 * fix m3u playlists exports
921 * fix video autoresize behaviour
924 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
927 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
930 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
933 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
936 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
937 --------------------------------
940 * Avformat fps displaying fix
941 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
944 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
945 of mono streams, especially on Windows
948 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
949 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
950 * fix console output encoding
952 Interface and extensions:
953 * Youtube and other scripts updates
954 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
957 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
958 --------------------------------
961 * New capabilities for libVLC:
962 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
963 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
964 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
965 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
966 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
967 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
968 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
969 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
970 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
971 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
972 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
973 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
974 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
975 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
976 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
980 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
981 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
982 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
983 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
984 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
987 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
990 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
991 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
992 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
996 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
999 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1000 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1001 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1004 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1005 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1006 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1007 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1010 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1011 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1014 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1015 --------------------------------
1017 Important changes for users:
1018 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1019 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1021 Important changes for packagers:
1022 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1023 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1024 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1025 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1026 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1028 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1030 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1031 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1032 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1033 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1034 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1037 * Support for the sftp protocol
1038 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1039 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1040 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1041 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1042 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1045 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1046 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1047 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1049 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1050 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1051 * Invmem module improvements
1052 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1053 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1054 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1055 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1056 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1057 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1058 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1059 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1060 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1061 * Support for VP8 codec
1062 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1065 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1066 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1067 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1068 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1069 * Various EGP improvements
1070 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1071 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1074 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1075 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1076 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1077 * Podcast images are now displayed
1080 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1081 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1082 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1083 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1084 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1085 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1086 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1087 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1088 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1089 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1090 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1093 * New content extensions lua framework
1096 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1097 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1098 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1099 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1100 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1101 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1102 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1105 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1106 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1107 * Service discovery based on libudev
1108 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1111 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1112 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1113 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1114 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1115 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1116 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1117 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1120 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1121 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1122 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1125 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1127 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1128 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1131 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1134 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1135 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1136 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1137 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1138 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1139 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1140 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1143 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1144 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1147 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1148 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1149 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1153 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1154 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1155 * Improved Solaris port
1158 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1159 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1162 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1163 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1164 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1165 * transrate: broken since too long
1166 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1167 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1168 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1169 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1170 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1171 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1172 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1173 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1174 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1175 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1176 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1177 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1178 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1179 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1182 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1183 --------------------------------
1186 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1188 Decoders/Packetizers:
1189 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1192 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1193 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1194 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1195 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1196 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1199 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1200 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1203 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1204 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1207 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1208 and Walloon translations updated
1209 * Sinhala translation started
1212 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1213 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1216 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1217 --------------------------------
1220 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1221 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1224 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1227 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1228 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1231 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1232 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1233 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1234 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1237 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1238 --------------------------------
1241 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1242 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1245 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1246 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1249 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1250 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1253 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1256 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1257 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1260 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1261 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1264 * New Walloon translation
1265 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1268 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1269 --------------------------------
1272 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1273 regressions in most popular drivers
1274 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1277 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1278 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1279 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1282 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1283 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1286 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1287 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1288 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1289 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1290 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1293 * New udev module for linux
1296 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1299 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1302 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1303 --------------------------------
1306 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1307 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1308 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1311 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1312 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1315 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1316 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1319 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1322 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1323 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1324 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1325 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1328 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1329 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1330 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1331 - no support for Goom and SDL
1332 - limited text rendering support
1333 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1336 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1337 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1338 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1339 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1340 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1341 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1342 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1343 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1344 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1348 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1351 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1354 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1355 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1356 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1357 Arabic and French translation updates
1360 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1361 --------------------------------
1364 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1365 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1366 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1367 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1368 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1369 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1372 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1373 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1374 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1377 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1378 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1379 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1382 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1385 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1386 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1389 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1390 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1391 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1392 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1393 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1394 * Fix various crashes
1397 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1399 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1403 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1404 ---------------------------------
1408 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1409 See 'Access:' for more info.
1410 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1413 * Instantaneous pausing
1414 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1415 * Finer speed control
1416 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1417 * Timeshift for most medias
1418 * RTSP trickplay support
1419 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1422 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1423 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1424 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1425 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1426 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1427 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1428 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1429 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1430 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1431 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1434 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1435 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1436 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1437 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1438 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1439 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1440 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1443 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1444 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1447 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1448 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1449 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1450 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1451 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1452 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1453 * DVB scanning on linux
1454 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1455 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1456 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1457 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1458 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1459 * MTP device access on Unix
1460 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1461 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1464 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1465 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1466 Windows and Mac OS X.
1469 * Export the playlist in HTML
1470 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1471 * Better metadata handling and reading
1473 Linux/Windows interface:
1474 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1475 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1476 * Recently played items list
1477 * Interface toolbar customizations
1478 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1479 - More menus actions
1480 - Finer speed slider
1481 - Improvements on many dialogs
1482 - New dialog for plugins listing
1483 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1484 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1485 * Better integration in GTK environments
1488 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1489 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1490 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1491 * Additional usability improvements
1494 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1495 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1496 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1497 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1498 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1501 * New Maemo port with:
1502 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1503 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1506 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1509 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1510 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1511 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1512 * Support for latest iSight models
1515 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1516 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1519 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1520 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1521 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1522 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1523 The old image video output has been removed.
1524 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1525 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1528 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1536 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1537 --------------------------------------
1543 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1544 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1545 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1546 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1547 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1548 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1549 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1551 Various fixes to the following modules:
1554 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1555 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1556 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1558 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1563 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1564 ---------------------------------
1567 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1568 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1571 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1572 ---------------------------------
1575 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1578 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1581 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1582 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1583 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1584 main controller window.
1585 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1588 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1593 * Updates of other localizations
1596 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1597 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1598 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1599 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1600 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1603 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1604 ---------------------------------
1607 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1609 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1612 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1613 --------------------------------
1618 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1619 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1622 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1623 --------------------------------
1625 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1626 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1629 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1632 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1633 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1636 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1637 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1640 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1641 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1642 * Various fixed in playlist
1645 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1648 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1651 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1652 ------------------------------------
1654 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1655 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1658 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1659 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1660 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1663 * Stability fix for the video output.
1666 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1667 --------------------------------
1670 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1671 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1672 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1673 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1674 * Fixed update system bugs
1675 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1678 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1679 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1680 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1681 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1682 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1683 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1684 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1685 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1686 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1687 modern Mac OS X versions
1690 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1691 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1693 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1694 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1697 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1698 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1699 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1700 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1701 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1702 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1705 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1706 --------------------------------
1708 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1709 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1710 * Multiple bugfixes.
1713 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1714 --------------------------------
1716 * Multiple bug fixes.
1719 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1720 ---------------------------------
1724 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1725 recent to work correctly
1726 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1727 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1728 edit the ".hosts" file.
1729 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1730 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1731 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1732 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1733 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1734 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1735 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1736 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1737 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1738 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1739 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1740 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1741 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1742 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1743 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1744 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1745 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1746 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1747 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1748 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1749 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1750 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1751 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1752 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1753 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1754 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1755 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1756 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1757 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1758 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1759 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1760 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1761 and postproc modules.
1762 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1763 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1764 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1765 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1767 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1768 filter. For example:
1769 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1770 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1772 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1773 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1779 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1781 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1782 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1785 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1786 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1788 * Shoutcast TV listings
1789 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1791 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1792 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1794 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1797 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1798 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1799 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1800 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1801 * JACK audio input support
1802 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1803 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1804 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1805 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1806 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1807 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1808 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1809 (available as a separate download).
1810 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1811 * RTMP input support
1812 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1813 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1814 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1816 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1817 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1820 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1821 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1822 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1823 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1825 * APEv1/2 tags support
1826 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1827 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1829 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1830 * TiVo Series 2 support
1831 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1836 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1837 * Flash Screen Video support
1838 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1839 * DosBox Capture support
1840 * Karl Morton's Video support
1841 * limited atrac3 support
1843 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1844 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1845 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1846 * H.264 PAFF support
1847 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1848 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1849 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1850 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1851 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1854 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1855 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1856 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1857 * AQTitle subtitles support
1858 * MKV USF subtitles support
1859 * HTML-based subtitles support
1860 * MPSub subtitles support
1861 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1862 * MPL2 subtitles support
1863 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1864 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1865 * Realtext subtitle support
1866 * DKS subtitle support
1867 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1868 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1871 * Flash Screen Video support
1872 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1874 Video outputs and filters:
1875 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1876 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1877 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1878 * New puzzle video output filter
1879 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1880 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1882 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1883 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1884 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1885 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1886 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1887 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1888 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1889 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1890 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1891 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1892 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1893 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1894 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1895 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1897 Audio outputs and filters:
1898 * Replay gain support
1899 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1900 new scaletempo audio filter)
1901 * New spatializer audio filter
1902 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1905 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1906 * New RTP payload formats:
1907 * Speex voice audio codec
1908 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1909 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1910 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1911 * DCCP transport for RTP
1912 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1917 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1918 end-user suitable way.
1919 * Improved user interaction
1920 * Improved mouse gestures
1921 * Vastly improved Update checker
1922 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1924 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1925 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1927 * Improved video output features
1928 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1929 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1930 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1931 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1932 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1934 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1935 if libncursesw is available.
1936 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1937 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1938 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1940 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1941 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1942 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1943 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1944 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1945 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1946 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1947 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1950 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1951 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1952 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1955 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1956 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1957 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1958 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1959 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1960 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1963 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1964 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1974 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1975 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1976 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1979 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1980 ----------------------------------
1983 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1986 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1987 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1988 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1989 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1990 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1991 * Updated Polish translation
1994 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1995 ----------------------------------
1998 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1999 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2000 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2003 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2004 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2005 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2006 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2007 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2008 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2009 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2010 to an unexpected application termination
2011 * New Serbian translation
2012 * Updated Romanian translation
2015 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2016 ----------------------------------
2019 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2020 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2021 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2022 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2023 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2024 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2025 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2026 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2029 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2030 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2031 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2032 * Fixed AAC resampling
2033 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2034 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2037 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2038 ----------------------------------
2041 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2042 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2043 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2044 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2045 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2048 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2049 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2050 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2051 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2052 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2055 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2056 ----------------------------------
2059 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2060 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2063 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2064 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2065 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2066 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2068 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2072 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2075 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2078 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2081 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2084 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2085 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2086 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2087 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2088 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2090 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2091 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2092 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2093 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2096 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2099 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2100 ----------------------------------
2103 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2104 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2105 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2107 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2108 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2110 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2111 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2114 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2116 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2117 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2118 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2119 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2120 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2121 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2122 two different movies
2123 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2124 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2125 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2128 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2131 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2132 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2133 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2134 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2137 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2138 ----------------------------------
2140 Various bugfixes, notably:
2141 * Windows Vista compatibility
2142 * Cropping in Direct3D
2143 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2144 * RSS filter string overflow
2146 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2148 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2149 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2152 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2153 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2156 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2159 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2162 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2165 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2166 ----------------------------------
2168 Various bugfixes, notably:
2169 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2170 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2171 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2172 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2173 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2174 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2177 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2178 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2181 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2183 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2184 * Diverse usability improvements
2185 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2186 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2187 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2190 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2191 ---------------------------------
2193 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2194 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2197 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2200 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2201 --------------------------------
2204 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2207 * Support for RTSP authentication
2208 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2209 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2210 * ATSC support for DVB input
2211 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2212 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2213 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2216 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2217 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2218 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2219 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2220 * Matroska WavPack support
2221 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2222 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2223 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2226 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2227 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2228 * Improved libcaca support
2232 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2233 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2235 * Systray support in skins
2237 * Support for Apple Remote control
2238 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2239 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2240 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2241 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2243 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2246 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2247 Windows 9x/ME users:
2248 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2249 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2250 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2251 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2252 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2254 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2255 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2264 * Updates to the libvlc API
2265 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2268 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2269 --------------------------------
2272 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2273 * Support for downloading updates
2277 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2278 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2279 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2280 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2282 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2283 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2284 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2287 * Cook (Real audio) support
2289 Playlist / Services discovery:
2290 * XSPF playlist support
2292 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2295 * New JACK audio output
2298 * New video filters:
2299 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2300 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2301 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2302 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2303 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2304 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2307 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2310 * System to inform the user and request information
2311 - HTTP authentication
2315 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2316 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2317 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2320 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2321 - Improved playlist handling
2322 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2324 - Embedded Video output
2325 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2326 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2327 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2328 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2329 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2331 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2332 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2335 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2338 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2339 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2340 * Growl "Now playing" support
2343 * Ability to log to syslog
2344 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2347 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2349 * A bit more automatic testing
2352 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2353 ---------------------------------
2356 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2357 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2360 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2361 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2364 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2367 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2368 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2374 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2377 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2378 --------------------------------
2381 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2385 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2386 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2387 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2390 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2391 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2392 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2393 * GnomeVFS input module
2394 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2395 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2398 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2399 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2400 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2403 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2404 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2410 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2411 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2414 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2415 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2416 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2419 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2421 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2422 - New extended controls panel
2423 - New bookmarks window
2424 - Fixed playlist sorting
2425 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2427 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2428 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2429 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2430 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2434 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2435 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2437 - Include macro to include other files
2441 * Should now work outside IE as well
2444 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2447 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2448 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2451 The following languages were added:
2455 * Simplified Chinese
2456 The following languages were re-added:
2460 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2461 --------------------------------
2464 * Rewrite of the playlist
2466 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2467 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2468 * Preferences improvements:
2469 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2470 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2472 * Core image manipulation support
2473 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2474 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2475 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2476 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2477 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2478 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2479 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2480 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2481 * Access filter architecture
2482 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2483 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2487 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2488 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2489 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2490 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2491 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2492 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2493 * Massive Matroska improvements
2494 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2496 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2497 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2498 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2499 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2500 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2502 Decoders / Encoders:
2503 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2504 * PNG decoder/encoder
2505 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2506 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2509 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2512 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2513 * Brand new SAP module
2514 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2515 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2516 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2517 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2518 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2519 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2523 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2526 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2527 * Image file video output (png)
2528 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2529 * Improvements to wall video filter
2530 * Support for font color and opacity
2536 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2537 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2538 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2542 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2543 - Improved preferences
2544 - Improvements to the wizard
2545 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2547 - Redesigned playlist
2548 - Improved preferences
2550 - Support for multiple actions
2553 - Support for the new playlist system
2555 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2558 * Screensaver disabling fix
2559 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2560 * Support for no-decoration windows
2563 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2564 * The OpenGL video output is back
2565 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2566 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2567 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2568 is not yet available in the new module
2569 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2572 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2581 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2584 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2587 The following languages were added:
2593 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2594 --------------------------------
2597 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2598 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2601 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2602 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2603 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2606 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2609 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2612 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2615 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2616 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2617 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2621 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2623 * Support of playlist group announcement
2626 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2627 --------------------------------
2630 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2631 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2632 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2633 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2634 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2635 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2638 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2639 (Stream your desktop)
2640 * Improved DVD support:
2641 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2642 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2643 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2644 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2645 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2646 (selection of titles/chapters).
2649 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2650 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2651 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2652 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2653 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2654 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2655 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2656 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2657 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2658 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2661 * G.726 audio support
2662 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2663 * MPEG-4 text support
2664 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2665 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2666 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2670 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2671 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2672 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2673 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2674 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2675 * DVB subtitles encoder
2676 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2677 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2679 * Text track muxing for mp4
2680 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2681 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2682 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2683 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2684 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2685 * Improved ASF muxer
2687 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2688 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2689 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2692 * New audio equalizer filter
2693 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2694 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2695 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2696 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2699 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2700 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2701 with support for effects.
2702 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2703 - New filters can be streamed.
2704 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2705 - Centralized scaling and blending
2707 - "time", to display current time
2708 - "marq", to display a marquee
2711 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2712 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2713 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2714 * A few skins2 improvements
2715 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2716 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2717 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2718 * Improved CORBA control module
2721 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2722 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2723 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2726 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2727 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2728 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2731 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2732 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2733 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2734 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2735 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2738 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2741 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2742 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2745 * Server/client network synchronization module
2746 * VBrick streams fully supported
2747 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2751 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2752 --------------------------------
2755 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2756 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2757 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2758 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2761 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2762 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2763 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2764 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2765 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2766 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2767 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2770 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2771 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2772 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2773 * Improved directory access module.
2774 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2775 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2776 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2777 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2778 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2781 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2782 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2783 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2786 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2787 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2788 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2791 * Improved session announcement system.
2792 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2793 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2794 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2795 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2796 * Improved transrater.
2797 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2798 * New configuration system.
2799 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2802 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2803 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2804 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2805 * Supports scheduling.
2806 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2807 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2810 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2811 - Ability to embed video output.
2812 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2813 - Lots of improvements.
2814 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2815 - New design and set of icons.
2816 - Ability to embed video output.
2817 - Support for hotkeys.
2818 - Support for bookmarks.
2820 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2821 - Better hotkeys handling.
2824 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2825 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2826 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2827 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2830 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2831 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2832 * Improved Windows installer.
2838 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2839 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2842 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2843 ---------------------------------
2846 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2847 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2850 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2851 --------------------------------
2854 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2855 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2858 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2859 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2860 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2861 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2864 * Internal improvments
2865 * Improved import/export
2868 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2870 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2871 small and strange formats.
2873 * New MOD audio demux.
2874 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2875 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2876 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2877 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2880 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2881 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2882 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2888 * New opengl video output plugin.
2891 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2892 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2895 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2896 --------------------------------
2899 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2900 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2901 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2902 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2903 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2904 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2905 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2906 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2909 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2914 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2915 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2916 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2917 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2918 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2919 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2920 * Better Icecast support.
2921 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2922 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2925 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2926 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2927 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2928 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2929 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2930 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2931 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2934 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2935 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2936 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2937 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2938 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2939 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2940 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2941 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2942 * Preliminary RTP support.
2943 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2948 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2949 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2951 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2952 - Improvements and help in preferences
2953 - New streaming wizard
2954 - Revised Disc Open menu
2956 - Improvements of the standard pages
2957 - Support for new commands
2958 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2961 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2962 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2965 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2966 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2967 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2968 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2969 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2970 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2971 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2972 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2973 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2976 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2978 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2979 * Support for Panther.
2980 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2981 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2984 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2985 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2986 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2987 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2988 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2989 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2990 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2991 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2994 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2995 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2996 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2999 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3002 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3003 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3004 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3005 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3008 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3009 --------------------------------
3012 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3015 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3016 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3019 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3020 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3023 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3026 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3027 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3030 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3033 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3036 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3037 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3041 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3042 --------------------------------
3045 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3046 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3050 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3051 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3052 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3054 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3055 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3058 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3061 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3064 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3065 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3069 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3070 --------------------------------
3073 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3074 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3078 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3079 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3080 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3081 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3082 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3085 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3086 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3087 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3090 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3091 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3092 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3095 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3096 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3097 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3098 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3099 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3102 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3103 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3104 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3107 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3110 * Improved build system.
3111 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3112 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3113 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3114 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3117 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3118 --------------------------------
3121 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3124 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3125 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3126 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3127 * Video 4 Linux support
3128 * CD Digital Audio support
3129 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3132 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3133 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3134 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3135 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3138 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3139 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3140 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3141 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3142 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3143 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3144 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3147 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3148 * New HTTP remote control interface
3151 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3152 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3153 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3154 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3155 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3158 * New reset option for the preferences
3159 * You can set your language in the prefences
3160 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3161 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3162 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3163 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3166 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3167 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3168 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3171 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3172 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3173 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3174 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3175 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3176 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3177 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3178 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3179 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3180 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3183 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3184 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3185 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3186 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3187 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3188 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3189 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3192 * Interface localization
3193 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3194 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3195 * New full-featured Preferences window
3198 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3199 --------------------------------
3202 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3203 * support for skins at the interface level
3204 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3205 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3206 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3207 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3208 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3211 * fixed HTTP redirects
3212 * support for opening an entire directory
3213 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3214 * new video4linux access plug-in
3215 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3218 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3219 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3220 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3223 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3224 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3225 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3226 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3227 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3228 * new codec for raw I420 video
3229 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3232 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3233 (although it still misses some important features)
3234 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3237 * new HTTP output support
3238 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3239 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3242 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3245 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3248 * reorderable playlist
3249 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3250 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3251 * support for mono audio output devices
3252 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3253 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3254 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3255 * the messages window remembers more lines
3256 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3257 * http and ogg stream output options
3258 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3261 * new skinnable interface
3262 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3264 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3265 * support for FLAC audio format
3266 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3268 * network tab in the interface
3269 * "apply" handling in preferences
3272 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3273 ---------------------------------
3276 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3277 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3278 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3279 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3281 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3282 * DTS S/PDIF support
3285 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3286 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3287 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3288 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3291 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3292 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3295 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3298 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3301 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3303 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3304 * rc interface is now fully useable
3305 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3308 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3309 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3310 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3311 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3312 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3314 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3315 * support for mouse gestures
3316 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3319 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3320 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3323 * improved ID3 tag detection
3324 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3325 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3326 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3328 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3331 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3332 ---------------------------------
3335 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3336 English was set as the preferred language
3339 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3340 --------------------------------
3343 * new mouse gesture interface
3344 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3348 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3349 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3350 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3353 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3354 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3358 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3361 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3362 without the user consent
3365 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3367 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3368 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3369 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3372 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3373 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3374 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3375 * playlist enhancements
3376 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3377 * new step forward/step backward commands
3378 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3379 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3380 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3383 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3384 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3385 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3388 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3389 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3392 * native video output is working again
3393 * only commandline interface support
3394 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3397 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3398 --------------------------------
3401 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3402 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3403 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3404 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3405 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3406 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3407 and A/52 streams are supported)
3408 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3413 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3414 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3415 * VCD entry points support
3416 * VCD image file support
3419 * support for *.asf format
3420 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3421 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3422 * support for ogg encapsulation
3423 * support for raw DV format
3424 * support for *.wav format
3425 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3428 Stream discovery & playlists:
3429 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3430 * support for .m3u file format
3431 * support for .asx file format
3432 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3435 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3436 (only available with the .avi demux)
3437 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3438 * support for raw PCM data
3439 * support for Cinepak video codec
3440 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3441 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3442 * support for Xvid codec
3443 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3444 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3445 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3447 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3449 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3452 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3455 * new WxWindows interface
3456 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3457 device and the channels configuration
3458 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3459 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3460 format that VLC can play
3461 * new swedish translation
3462 * enhancements of the playlist window
3463 * new messages window to see debug info
3464 * fixed a few crashes
3467 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3468 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3469 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3470 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working