3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
12 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
13 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
14 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
15 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
16 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
17 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
18 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
19 interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
20 It will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version.
21 If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
22 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
23 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
24 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
25 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
26 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
27 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
28 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
29 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
30 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
31 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
32 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
33 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
34 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
35 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
36 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
37 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
38 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the avcodec, avformat,
39 swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build) and
46 * Vastly improved playlist support:
47 * Media library support
49 * Shoutcast TV listings
50 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
52 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
53 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
54 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
55 share/lua/meta/README.txt
58 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
59 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
60 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
61 * JACK audio input support
62 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
63 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
64 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
65 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
66 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
68 * APEv1/2 tags support
69 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
70 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
72 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
73 * TiVo Series 2 support
74 * v4l2 access module support
75 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
76 * CD+G karaoke Files support
78 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X using OpenGL
80 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
81 * Experimental EyeTV access module (Mac OS X only)
82 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
83 (available as a separate download).
84 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
86 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
87 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
91 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
92 * Flash Screen Video support
93 * CamStudio Screen Video support
94 * DosBox Capture support
95 * Karl Morton's Video support
96 * limited atrac3 support
97 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
98 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
99 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
100 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
102 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
103 * NellyMoser ASAO support
104 * APE (Monkey audio) support
105 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support
106 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
109 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
110 * AQTitle subtitles support
111 * MKV USF subtitles support
112 * HTML-based subtitles support
113 * MPSub subtitles support
114 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
115 * MPL2 subtitles support
116 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
117 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
118 * Realtext subtitle support
119 * DKS subtitle support
120 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
123 * Flash Screen Video support
124 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
126 Video output and filters:
127 * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
128 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
129 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
130 * New puzzle video output filter
131 * Re-written motion detection video filter
132 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
134 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
135 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
136 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
137 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
138 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
139 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
140 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
141 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
142 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
143 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
144 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
145 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
147 Audio output and filters
148 * Replay gain support
149 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
150 * New spatializer audio filter
151 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
154 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
155 * New RTP payload formats:
156 * Speex voice audio codec
157 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
158 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
159 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
160 * DCCP transport for RTP
161 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
166 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
168 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
169 end-user suitable way.
170 * Improved user interaction
171 * Improved mouse gestures
172 * Vastly improved Update checker
173 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
175 * Improved video output features
176 * Access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
177 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
178 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
179 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
181 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
182 if libncursesw is available.
183 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
184 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
186 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
187 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
188 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
189 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
190 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
191 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
192 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
193 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
196 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
197 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
198 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
201 * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
202 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
203 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
204 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
205 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 was discontinued.
208 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
209 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
217 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
218 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
219 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
221 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
222 ----------------------------------
225 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
226 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
227 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
228 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
229 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
232 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
233 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
234 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
235 * Close MMS access on network timeout
236 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
239 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
240 ----------------------------------
243 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
244 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
247 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
248 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
249 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
250 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
252 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
256 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
259 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
262 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
265 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
268 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
269 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
270 encoding on multi-cpu systems
271 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
272 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
274 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
275 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
276 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
277 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
280 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
283 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
284 ----------------------------------
287 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
288 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
289 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
291 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
292 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
294 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
295 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
298 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
300 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
301 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
302 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
303 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
304 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
305 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
307 * Support for current Ogg file formats
308 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
309 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
312 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
315 * The automatic updating facility was removed
316 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
317 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
318 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
321 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
322 ----------------------------------
324 Various bugfixes, notably:
325 * Windows Vista compatibility
326 * Cropping in Direct3D
327 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
328 * RSS filter string overflow
330 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
332 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
333 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
336 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
337 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
340 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
343 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
346 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
349 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
350 ----------------------------------
352 Various bugfixes, notably:
353 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
354 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
355 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
356 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
357 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
358 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
361 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
362 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
365 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
367 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
368 * Diverse usability improvements
369 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
370 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
371 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
374 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
375 ---------------------------------
378 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
381 * Fullscreen controller improvements
384 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
385 --------------------------------
388 * Shoutcast TV listings support
391 * Support for RTSP authentication
392 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
393 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
394 * ATSC support for DVB input
395 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
396 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
397 * Improved support for Flash Video files
400 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
401 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
402 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
403 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
404 * Matroska WavPack support
405 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
406 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
407 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
410 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
411 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
412 * Improved libcaca support
416 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
417 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
419 * Systray support in skins
421 * Support for Apple Remote control
422 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
423 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
424 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
425 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
427 * Notifications using notification-daemon
430 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
432 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
433 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
434 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
435 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
436 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
438 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
439 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
448 * Updates to the libvlc API
449 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
452 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
453 --------------------------------
456 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
457 * Support for downloading updates
461 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
462 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
463 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
464 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
466 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
467 * Improved subtitles encoding support
468 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
471 * Cook (Real audio) support
473 Playlist / Services discovery:
474 * XSPF playlist support
476 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
479 * New JACK audio output
483 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
484 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
485 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
486 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
487 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
488 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
491 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
494 * System to inform the user and request information
495 - HTTP authentication
499 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
500 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
501 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
504 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
505 - Improved playlist handling
506 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
508 - Embedded Video output
509 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
510 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
511 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
512 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
513 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
515 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
516 - A bunch of new RPN functions
519 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
522 * Mac-Intel compatibility
523 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
524 * Growl "Now playing" support
527 * Ability to log to syslog
528 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
531 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
533 * A bit more automatic testing
536 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
537 ---------------------------------
540 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
541 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
544 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
545 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
548 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
551 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
552 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
558 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
561 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
562 --------------------------------
565 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
569 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
570 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
571 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
574 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
575 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
576 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
577 * GnomeVFS input module
578 * Support for RTP packet reordering
579 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
582 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
583 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
584 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
587 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
588 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
594 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
595 Mixer and Dolby Surround
598 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
599 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
600 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
603 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
605 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
606 - New extended controls panel
607 - New bookmarks window
608 - Fixed playlist sorting
609 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
611 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
612 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
613 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
614 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
618 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
619 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
621 - Include macro to include other files
625 * Should now work outside IE as well
628 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
631 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
632 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
635 The following languages were added:
640 The following languages were re-added:
644 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
645 --------------------------------
648 * Rewrite of the playlist
650 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
651 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
652 * Preferences improvements:
653 - New organization, designed to improve usability
654 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
656 * Core image manipulation support
657 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
658 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
659 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
660 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
661 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
662 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
663 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
664 now separated by ':' instead of ','
665 * Access filter architecture
666 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
667 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
671 * Support for SOCKS proxy
672 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
673 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
674 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
675 * Better support for Kasenna streams
676 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
677 * Massive Matroska improvements
678 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
680 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
681 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
682 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
683 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
684 * Support for FTP over IPv6
687 * Dirac decoder and encoder
688 * PNG decoder/encoder
689 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
690 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
693 * New Record and Timeshift filters
696 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
697 * Brand new SAP module
698 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
699 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
700 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
701 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
702 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
703 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
707 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
710 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
711 * Image file video output (png)
712 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
713 * Improvements to wall video filter
714 * Support for font color and opacity
720 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
721 - Seeking support in VoD streams
722 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
726 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
727 - Improved preferences
728 - Improvements to the wizard
729 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
731 - Redesigned playlist
732 - Improved preferences
734 - Support for multiple actions
737 - Support for the new playlist system
739 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
742 * Screensaver disabling fix
743 * DirectShow tuner configuration
744 * Support for no-decoration windows
747 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
748 * The OpenGL video output is back
749 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
750 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
751 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
752 is not yet available in the new module
753 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
756 * Support for single-buffered overlay
765 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
768 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
771 The following languages were added:
777 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
778 --------------------------------
781 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
782 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
785 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
786 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
787 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
790 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
793 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
796 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
799 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
800 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
801 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
805 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
807 * Support of playlist group announcement
810 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
811 --------------------------------
814 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
815 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
816 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
817 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
818 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
819 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
822 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
823 (Stream your desktop)
824 * Improved DVD support:
825 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
826 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
827 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
828 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
829 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
830 (selection of titles/chapters).
833 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
834 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
835 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
836 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
837 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
838 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
839 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
840 * Improved Ogg demuxer
841 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
842 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
845 * G.726 audio support
846 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
847 * MPEG-4 text support
848 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
849 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
850 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
854 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
855 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
856 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
857 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
858 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
859 * DVB subtitles encoder
860 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
861 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
863 * Text track muxing for mp4
864 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
865 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
866 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
867 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
868 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
871 * H.263 RTP streaming support
872 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
873 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
876 * New audio equalizer filter
877 * Very trivial volume normalizer
878 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
879 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
880 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
883 * Roku HD1000 Video output
884 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
885 with support for effects.
886 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
887 - New filters can be streamed.
888 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
889 - Centralized scaling and blending
891 - "time", to display current time
892 - "marq", to display a marquee
895 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
896 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
897 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
898 * A few skins2 improvements
899 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
900 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
901 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
902 * Improved CORBA control module
905 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
906 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
907 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
910 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
911 * Experimental SVG rendering module
912 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
915 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
916 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
917 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
918 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
919 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
922 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
925 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
926 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
929 * Server/client network synchronization module
930 * VBrick streams fully supported
931 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
935 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
936 --------------------------------
939 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
940 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
941 * Improved HTTP daemon.
942 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
945 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
946 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
947 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
948 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
949 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
950 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
951 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
954 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
955 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
956 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
957 * Improved directory access module.
958 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
959 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
960 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
961 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
962 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
965 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
966 * mmsh streaming fixes.
967 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
970 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
971 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
972 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
975 * Improved session announcement system.
976 * Minimize threads usage by default.
977 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
978 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
979 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
980 * Improved transrater.
981 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
982 * New configuration system.
983 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
986 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
987 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
988 * Supports live streams and VoD.
989 * Supports scheduling.
990 * Telnet interface for vlm.
991 * HTTP interface for vlm.
994 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
995 - Ability to embed video output.
996 - Support for bitmap fonts.
997 - Lots of improvements.
998 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
999 - New design and set of icons.
1000 - Ability to embed video output.
1001 - Support for hotkeys.
1002 - Support for bookmarks.
1004 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1005 - Better hotkeys handling.
1008 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1009 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1010 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1011 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1014 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1015 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1016 * Improved Windows installer.
1022 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1023 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1026 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1027 ---------------------------------
1030 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1031 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1034 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1035 --------------------------------
1038 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1039 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1042 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1043 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1044 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1045 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1048 * Internal improvments
1049 * Improved import/export
1052 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1054 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1055 small and strange formats.
1057 * New MOD audio demux.
1058 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1059 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1060 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1061 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1064 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1065 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1066 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1072 * New opengl video output plugin.
1075 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1076 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1079 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1080 --------------------------------
1083 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1084 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1085 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1086 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1087 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1088 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1089 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1090 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1093 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1098 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1099 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1100 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1101 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1102 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1103 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1104 * Better Icecast support.
1105 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1106 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1109 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1110 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1111 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1112 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1113 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1114 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1115 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1118 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1119 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1120 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1121 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1122 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1123 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1124 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1125 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1126 * Preliminary RTP support.
1127 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1132 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1133 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1135 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1136 - Improvements and help in preferences
1137 - New streaming wizard
1138 - Revised Disc Open menu
1140 - Improvements of the standard pages
1141 - Support for new commands
1142 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1145 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1146 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1149 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1150 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1151 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1152 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1153 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1154 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1155 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1156 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1157 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1160 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1162 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1163 * Support for Panther.
1164 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1165 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1168 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1169 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1170 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1171 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1172 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1173 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1174 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1175 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1178 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1179 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1180 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1183 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1186 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1187 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1188 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1189 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1192 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1193 --------------------------------
1196 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1199 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1200 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1203 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1204 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1207 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1210 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1211 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1214 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1217 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1220 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1221 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1225 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1226 --------------------------------
1229 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1230 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1234 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1235 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1236 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1238 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1239 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1242 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1245 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1248 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1249 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1253 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1254 --------------------------------
1257 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1258 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1262 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1263 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1264 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1265 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1266 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1269 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1270 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1271 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1274 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1275 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1276 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1279 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1280 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1281 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1282 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1283 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1286 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1287 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1288 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1291 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1294 * Improved build system.
1295 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1296 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1297 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1298 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1301 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1302 --------------------------------
1305 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1308 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1309 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1310 * Video 4 Linux support
1311 * CD Digital Audio support
1312 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1315 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1316 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1317 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1318 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1321 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1322 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1323 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1324 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1325 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1326 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1327 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1330 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1331 * New HTTP remote control interface
1334 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1335 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1336 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1337 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1340 * New reset option for the preferences
1341 * You can set your language in the prefences
1342 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1343 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1344 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1345 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1348 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1349 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1350 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1353 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1354 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1355 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1356 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1357 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1358 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1359 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1360 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1361 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1362 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1365 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1366 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1367 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1368 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1369 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1370 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1371 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1374 * Interface localization
1375 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1376 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1377 * New full-featured Preferences window
1380 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1381 --------------------------------
1384 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1385 * support for skins at the interface level
1386 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1387 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1388 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1389 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1390 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1393 * fixed HTTP redirects
1394 * support for opening an entire directory
1395 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1396 * new video4linux access plug-in
1397 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1400 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1401 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1402 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1405 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1406 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1407 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1408 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1409 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1410 * new codec for raw I420 video
1411 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1414 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1415 (although it still misses some important features)
1416 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1419 * new HTTP output support
1420 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1421 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1424 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1427 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1430 * reorderable playlist
1431 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1432 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1433 * support for mono audio output devices
1434 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1435 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1436 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1437 * the messages window remembers more lines
1438 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1439 * http and ogg stream output options
1440 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1443 * new skinnable interface
1444 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1446 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1447 * support for FLAC audio format
1448 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1450 * network tab in the interface
1451 * "apply" handling in preferences
1454 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1455 ---------------------------------
1458 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1459 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1460 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1461 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1463 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1464 * DTS S/PDIF support
1467 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1468 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1469 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1470 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1473 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1474 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1477 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1480 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1483 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1485 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1486 * rc interface is now fully useable
1487 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1490 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1491 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1492 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1493 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1494 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1496 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1497 * support for mouse gestures
1498 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1501 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1502 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1505 * improved ID3 tag detection
1506 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1507 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1508 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1510 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1513 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1514 ---------------------------------
1517 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1518 English was set as the preferred language
1521 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1522 --------------------------------
1525 * new mouse gesture interface
1526 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1530 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1531 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1532 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1535 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1536 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1540 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1543 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1544 without the user consent
1547 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1549 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1550 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1551 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1554 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1555 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1556 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1557 * playlist enhancements
1558 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1559 * new step forward/step backward commands
1560 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1561 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1562 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1565 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1566 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1567 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1570 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1571 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1574 * native video output is working again
1575 * only commandline interface support
1576 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1579 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1580 --------------------------------
1583 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1584 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1585 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1586 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1587 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1588 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1589 and A/52 streams are supported)
1590 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1595 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1596 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1597 * VCD entry points support
1598 * VCD image file support
1601 * support for *.asf format
1602 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1603 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1604 * support for ogg encapsulation
1605 * support for raw DV format
1606 * support for *.wav format
1607 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1610 Stream discovery & playlists:
1611 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1612 * support for .m3u file format
1613 * support for .asx file format
1614 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1617 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1618 (only available with the .avi demux)
1619 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1620 * support for raw PCM data
1621 * support for Cinepak video codec
1622 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1623 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1624 * support for Xvid codec
1625 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1626 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1627 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1629 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1631 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1634 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1637 * new WxWindows interface
1638 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1639 device and the channels configuration
1640 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1641 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1642 format that VLC can play
1643 * new swedish translation
1644 * enhancements of the playlist window
1645 * new messages window to see debug info
1646 * fixed a few crashes
1649 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1650 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1651 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1652 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working