1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
8 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
9 * New SMB access module using libdsm
10 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
11 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
12 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
13 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
14 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
15 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
16 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
17 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
18 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
21 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
22 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
23 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
24 * Support for Daala video
25 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
26 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
27 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
28 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
29 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
32 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
33 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
34 * Support Daala in Ogg
35 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
36 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
37 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
38 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
39 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
40 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
41 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
42 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
45 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
48 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
49 * Wayland shell surface window provider
50 * Wayland shared memory video output
51 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
52 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
53 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
56 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
57 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
60 * Chromecast output module
63 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
66 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
67 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
71 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
74 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
75 * Port to Yosemite X.10
78 * Batch convert support
81 * Support key accelerators
84 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
85 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
86 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
87 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
88 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
89 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
90 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
91 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
92 identifier (if there is one available)
95 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
96 --------------------------------
99 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
100 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
103 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
104 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
105 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
106 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
109 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
110 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
111 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
112 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
114 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
115 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
118 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
119 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
120 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
121 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
122 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
123 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
124 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
125 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
126 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
127 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
128 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
129 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
130 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
131 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
132 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
133 * New jpeg image decoder
134 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
135 * New SVG image decoder
136 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
137 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
138 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
141 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
142 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
143 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
144 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
145 * New png image encoder using libpng
148 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
149 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
150 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
151 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
152 synchronization and tracks exclusion
153 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
154 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
155 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
156 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
157 * Support Opus in MKV
159 * Basic support for WebVTT
160 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
161 * Support HDPR TS files
162 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
163 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
164 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
165 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
166 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
167 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
168 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
169 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
170 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
171 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
172 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
173 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
176 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
177 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
178 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
179 * New Android native window provider module
180 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
181 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
182 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
185 * New Oldmovie effect filter
186 * New VHS effect filter
187 * New Freeze effect filter
188 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
189 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
190 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
193 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
194 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
195 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
196 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
197 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
198 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
201 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
202 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
204 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
207 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
208 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
209 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
210 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
211 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
212 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
213 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
214 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
215 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
217 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
218 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
219 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
222 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
223 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
226 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
227 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
230 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
231 * Add record button in Qt menus
232 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
233 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
234 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
237 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
238 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
239 * Fixes for advanced preferences
240 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
241 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
242 * Option to increase playlist font size
243 * Improved crash log reporting
246 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
247 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
248 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
251 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
254 * iOS video output: use ios2
255 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
256 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
259 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
260 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
261 * Update of all translations:
262 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
263 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
264 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
265 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
266 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
267 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
268 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
271 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
272 --------------------------------
275 * Fix compilation on OS/2
278 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
280 Mac OS X audio output:
281 * Fix channel ordering
282 * Increase the buffersize
285 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
286 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
287 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
290 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
293 * Correctly support video-on-top
294 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
295 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
298 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
301 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
302 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
305 * Update British English
308 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
309 --------------------------------
312 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
315 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
318 * Fix DVD playback regression
319 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
320 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
323 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
324 --------------------------------
327 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
328 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
331 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
332 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
333 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
336 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
337 by updating codec libraries
338 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
339 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
340 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
343 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
344 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
345 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
346 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
349 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
350 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
353 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
354 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
355 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
356 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
357 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
360 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
361 * Fix record file names
364 * Fix minimal size possible on start
365 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
366 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
367 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
368 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
371 * Fix album art display on Windows
374 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
375 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
376 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
377 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
378 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
379 and Simplified Chinese translations
380 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
383 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
384 --------------------------------
387 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
388 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
389 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
390 audio devices on OS X
391 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
392 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
395 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
396 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
399 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
400 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
403 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
406 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
407 * Improve A-B loop control
408 * Fix album art update when changing media
411 * Add a language option in the interface
412 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
413 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
414 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
415 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
416 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
417 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
418 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
421 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
424 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
425 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
426 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
427 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
430 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
431 --------------------------------
434 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
436 * Fix some subtitles track selection
439 * VP9 support in WebM
440 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
441 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
444 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
445 * Support Speex in ogg files
446 * Fix some .mov playlists support
447 * Support Alac in mkv
448 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
449 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
452 * Fix DVB options parsing
453 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
454 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
457 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
458 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
461 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
462 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
465 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
466 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
467 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
468 * Fix play after drag'n drop
469 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
472 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
473 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
476 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
477 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
480 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
481 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
482 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
483 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
484 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
485 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
486 * Improves interface resizings
489 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
490 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
491 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
492 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
493 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
497 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
498 --------------------------------
501 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
502 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
503 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
504 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
505 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
507 3rd party libraries (contrib):
508 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
511 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
512 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
513 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
514 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
515 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
518 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
519 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
523 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
524 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
525 * Support for Ulead DV audio
526 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
527 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
528 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
529 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
530 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
531 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
532 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
533 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
534 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
535 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
538 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
539 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
540 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
543 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
544 remove support for previous OS X releases
545 * Major improvements in DASH support
546 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
547 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
548 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
549 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
550 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
551 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
552 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
553 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
554 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
555 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
556 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
559 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
560 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
561 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
562 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
563 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
564 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
565 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
566 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
567 * Support for more MJPEG streams
568 * Add support for liveleak streams
569 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
570 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
571 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
574 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
575 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
576 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
577 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
578 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
579 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
580 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
581 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
582 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
583 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
584 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
587 * New remapping channel filter
588 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
589 * New VSXu visualization plugin
590 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
591 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
592 * New gain audio filter
595 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
596 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
597 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
598 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
599 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
600 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
601 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
602 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
603 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
606 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
607 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
608 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
609 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
610 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
611 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
612 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
615 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
616 * Options support for AVIO output module
617 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
618 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
619 * Livehttp stream encryption support
620 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
621 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
624 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
627 * configurable password for the HTTP server
628 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
629 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
630 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
631 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
632 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
633 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
634 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
638 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
641 * Add support for multiple video outputs
642 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
644 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
645 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
646 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
647 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
648 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
649 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
650 VLC's internal volume level
651 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
653 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
654 selection and to manage the list of presets
655 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
656 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
657 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
658 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
659 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
660 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
661 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
662 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
663 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
664 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
666 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
667 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
668 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
669 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
670 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
671 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
672 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
673 3rd party applications
674 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
675 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
676 (system-wide settings)
677 * Add support for the Video Title option
678 * Add support for the Boss Key
679 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
680 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
683 * Partial support for Qt5.0
684 * Menus modifications and improvements
685 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
686 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
687 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
688 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
689 * EPG display fixes and improvements
690 * Add SD pixmap sources
691 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
692 * Display playlist total duration
693 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
694 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
695 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
700 * Extend sliders, offsets options
701 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
702 * Numerous fixes and improvements
703 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
706 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
707 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
708 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
709 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
710 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
711 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
712 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
713 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
714 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
715 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
718 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
719 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
720 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
721 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
722 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
723 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
725 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
726 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
727 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
728 * Broken crop video filter
730 * OSD parser and menu
731 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
732 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
733 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
734 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
738 * Update of all translations
741 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
742 --------------------------------
745 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
746 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
749 * Fix modplug security issues
752 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
753 --------------------------------
757 * Fix crash in QTsound
758 * Fix screen mouse file location
759 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
762 * Fix use after free in sgimb
763 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
766 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
769 * Fix interface crashes
770 * Fix autostart playback option
771 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
774 * update Welsh translation
775 * New Kannada translation
778 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
779 --------------------------------
782 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
783 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
787 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
790 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
793 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
796 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
800 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
803 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
806 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
807 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
808 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
811 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
812 --------------------------------
815 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
818 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
821 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
822 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
823 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
824 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
825 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
826 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
829 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
830 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
831 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
832 * 3rd party codecs updates
835 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
836 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
837 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
838 in the advanced preferences panel
839 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
840 * Fix crash within the video output code
841 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
842 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
843 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
844 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
846 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
849 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
852 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
853 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
856 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
859 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
860 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
861 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
862 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
863 Dutch, Danish, translations
864 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
867 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
868 --------------------------------
871 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
874 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
875 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
876 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
879 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
880 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
881 * Fix koreus lua parser
882 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
883 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
884 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
885 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
888 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
889 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
892 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
895 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
896 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
897 * Fix Time counter UI look
898 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
901 * Fix https streaming
904 * Fix audio and video track selection:
905 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
906 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
909 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
910 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
911 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
912 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
913 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
916 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
917 --------------------------------
920 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
921 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
922 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
923 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
924 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
925 during playback on Mac OS X
928 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
929 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
930 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
933 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
934 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
935 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
936 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
937 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
940 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
941 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
942 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
943 * Support Youtube live streams
946 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
949 * Fix media info dialog update
950 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
951 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
952 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
953 * Fix album art display at start
956 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
957 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
958 * Fix menus display and behavior
959 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
960 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
961 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
962 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
963 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
964 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
965 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
968 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
969 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
970 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
971 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
972 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
973 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
974 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
975 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
976 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
979 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
980 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
981 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
982 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
983 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
986 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
987 --------------------------------
990 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
993 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
994 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
997 * Add GateKeeper support
998 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
999 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1000 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1003 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1006 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1007 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1008 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1009 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1010 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1013 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1014 --------------------------------
1017 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1018 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1019 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1020 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1021 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1022 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1023 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1024 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1025 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1026 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1027 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1031 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1032 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1033 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1034 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1035 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1036 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1037 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1038 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1039 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1040 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1041 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1042 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1045 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1046 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1048 * Fix MP3 free format support
1051 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1052 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1053 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1054 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1055 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1058 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1059 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1061 Audio filters and output:
1062 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1063 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1064 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1065 * Do not apply volume in file output
1066 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1067 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1070 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1071 the persistant media library
1072 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1073 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1074 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1075 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1076 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1077 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1078 press on the Play/Pause button
1079 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1080 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1081 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1082 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1083 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1084 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1085 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1086 Synchronization panel
1087 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1088 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1089 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1090 * Fix crashes on exit
1091 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1093 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1094 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1095 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1096 automatically reset on the first launch.
1097 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1098 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1099 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1102 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1103 * Fixes for icecast SD
1106 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1107 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1108 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1109 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1110 * Fix tags and file names display
1111 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1114 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1115 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1118 * Fix display of some buttons
1119 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1120 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1123 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1124 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1125 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1128 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1129 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1130 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1131 Thai translations update
1132 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1135 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1136 --------------------------------
1139 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1140 * fix the samba module compilation
1141 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1142 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1143 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1144 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1147 * Support for MXPEG files
1148 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1149 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1152 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1153 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1154 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1157 * Fix ogm header creation
1160 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1161 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1164 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1165 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1166 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1167 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1170 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1173 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1174 * allow to hide the sidebar
1175 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1176 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1177 * noticebly faster launch time
1178 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1179 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1180 * improve track synchronization panel
1181 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1182 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1185 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1186 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1187 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1188 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1191 * fix for menus display
1192 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1193 * documentation update
1196 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1197 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1200 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1201 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1202 * Update Jamendo selections
1206 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1207 * fix a crash on VLM close
1210 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1211 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1212 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1213 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1216 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1219 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1220 ---------------------------------
1223 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1224 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1225 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1226 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1227 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1228 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1229 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1230 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1231 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1232 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1233 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1234 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1235 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1236 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1237 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1238 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1239 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1240 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1241 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1242 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1243 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1244 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1245 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1246 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1247 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1248 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1250 Important changes for packagers:
1251 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1252 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1253 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1254 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1255 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1256 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1257 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1258 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1259 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1260 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1263 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1264 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1265 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1266 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1267 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1268 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1269 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1272 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1273 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1274 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1275 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1276 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1277 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1278 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1279 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1280 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1281 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1282 * PulseAudio audio input support
1283 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1284 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1285 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1286 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1287 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1288 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1289 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1290 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1293 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1294 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1295 are notably concerned.
1296 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1297 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1298 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1299 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1300 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1301 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1302 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1303 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1304 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1305 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1306 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1307 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1308 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1309 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1310 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1313 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1314 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1315 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1316 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1317 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1318 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1319 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1320 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1321 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1322 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1323 * Improved support of tracker files
1324 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1327 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1328 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1329 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1330 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1331 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1332 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1333 and important cleanups and optimisations
1334 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1335 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1336 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1337 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1338 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1339 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1340 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1341 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1342 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1343 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1344 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1345 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1346 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1347 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1348 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1349 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1350 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1351 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1352 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1353 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1354 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1357 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1358 * New video output for iOS platform
1359 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1360 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1361 * Various vmem improvements
1362 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1363 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1364 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1365 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1366 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1367 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1369 Audio Output and Filters:
1370 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1371 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1372 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1373 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1374 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1375 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1376 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1377 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1378 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1379 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1382 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1383 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1384 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1385 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1386 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1387 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1388 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1389 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1390 * New anti-flickering filter
1391 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1392 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1393 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1394 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1395 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1396 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1397 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1400 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1401 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1402 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1403 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1404 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1405 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1406 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1407 * Major rework of VoD support
1408 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1409 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1410 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1411 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1412 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1413 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1414 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1415 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1416 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1417 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1420 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1421 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1424 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1425 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1426 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1427 list of available audio and video filters
1428 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1429 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1430 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1433 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1434 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1435 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1436 * id3tag: use taglib
1437 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1438 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1439 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1440 * removal of the noise filter
1441 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1442 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1443 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1444 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1447 * Update of translations for most languages.
1448 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1451 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1452 ----------------------------------
1455 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1456 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1459 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1460 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1463 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1464 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1465 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1468 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1471 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1472 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1475 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1478 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1479 ----------------------------------
1482 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1483 including support for OS X Lion
1484 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1485 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1488 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1491 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1492 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1493 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1496 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1499 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1500 ----------------------------------
1503 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1504 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1507 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1508 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1509 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1510 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1511 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1513 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1514 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1515 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1517 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1518 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1521 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1524 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1527 * Fix quitting on Linux
1528 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1532 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1535 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1538 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1539 ---------------------------------
1541 Windows and Mac OS X:
1542 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1545 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1546 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1549 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1552 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1555 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1557 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1558 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1560 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1561 * RTP output and XML export
1562 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1566 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1567 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1568 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1569 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1572 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1573 --------------------------------
1575 Windows and Mac OS X:
1576 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1579 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1582 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1583 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1584 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1585 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1586 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1587 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1590 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1591 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1595 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1596 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1597 * New Luganda Translation
1600 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1601 --------------------------------
1604 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1607 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1608 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1609 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1610 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1613 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1615 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1616 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1617 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1618 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1619 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1620 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1621 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1622 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1624 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1625 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1626 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1627 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1628 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1629 * Configure and build system improvements
1630 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1633 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1634 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1635 * New icelandic translation
1638 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1639 --------------------------------
1642 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1643 #234484 and #260719.
1646 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1647 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1648 and stability reasons
1651 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1655 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1658 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1659 ----------------------------------
1662 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1665 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1666 ---------------------------------
1669 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1670 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1671 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1672 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1675 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1678 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1679 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1680 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1681 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1684 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1685 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1686 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1688 Subtitles and renderer:
1689 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1690 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1691 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1692 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1693 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1696 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1697 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1698 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1699 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1702 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1703 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1705 Miscellaneous fixes:
1706 * KDE device solid actions
1708 * Transcode integer overflow
1709 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1710 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1713 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1714 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1715 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1718 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1719 ----------------------------------
1722 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1726 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1729 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1732 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1733 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1734 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1735 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1738 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1742 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1745 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1748 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1749 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1751 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1755 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1756 * Miscellaneous fixes
1759 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1760 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1761 French and Ukrainian
1762 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1763 * New Asturian translation
1766 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1767 ----------------------------------
1770 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1772 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1775 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1778 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1779 * Various fixes for Windows
1782 * New Armenian translation
1783 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1784 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1787 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1788 --------------------------------
1791 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1792 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1793 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1796 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1797 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1800 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1801 --------------------------------
1803 Access and demuxers:
1804 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1805 * fix for podcasts parsing
1806 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1809 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1810 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1813 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1814 * fix m3u playlists exports
1817 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1820 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1823 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1826 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1829 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1832 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1833 --------------------------------
1836 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1837 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1840 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1841 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1844 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1845 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1846 * fix console output encoding
1848 Interface and extensions:
1849 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1850 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1853 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1854 --------------------------------
1857 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1858 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1859 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1860 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1861 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1862 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1863 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1864 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1865 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1866 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1867 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1868 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1869 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1870 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1871 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1872 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1876 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1877 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1878 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1879 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1880 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1883 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1886 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1887 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1888 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1892 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1895 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1896 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1897 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1900 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1901 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1902 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1903 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1906 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1907 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1910 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1911 --------------------------------
1913 Important changes for users:
1914 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1915 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1917 Important changes for packagers:
1918 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1919 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1920 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1921 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1922 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1924 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1926 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1927 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1928 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1929 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1930 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1933 * Support for the sftp protocol
1934 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1935 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1936 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1937 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1938 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1941 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1942 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1943 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1945 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1946 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1947 * Invmem module improvements
1948 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1949 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1950 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1951 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1952 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1953 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1954 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1955 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1956 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1957 * Support for VP8 codec
1958 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1961 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1962 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1963 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1964 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1965 * Various EGP improvements
1966 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1967 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1970 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1971 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1972 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1973 * Podcast images are now displayed
1976 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1977 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1978 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1979 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1980 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1981 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1982 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1983 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1984 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1985 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1986 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1989 * New content extensions lua framework
1992 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1993 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1994 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1995 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1996 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1997 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1998 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2001 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2002 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2003 * Service discovery based on libudev
2004 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2007 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2008 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2009 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2010 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2011 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2012 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2013 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2016 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2017 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2018 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2021 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2023 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2024 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2027 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2030 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2031 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2032 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2033 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2034 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2035 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2036 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2039 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2040 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2043 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2044 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2045 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2049 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2050 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2051 * Improved Solaris port
2054 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2055 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2058 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2059 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2060 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2061 * transrate: broken since too long
2062 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2063 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2064 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2065 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2066 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2067 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2068 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2069 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2070 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2071 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2072 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2073 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2074 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2075 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2078 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2079 --------------------------------
2082 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2084 Decoders/Packetizers:
2085 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2088 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2089 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2090 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2091 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2092 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2095 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2096 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2099 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2100 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2103 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2104 and Walloon translations updated
2105 * Sinhala translation started
2108 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2109 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2112 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2113 --------------------------------
2116 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2117 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2120 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2123 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2124 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2127 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2128 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2129 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2130 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2133 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2134 --------------------------------
2137 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2138 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2141 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2142 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2145 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2146 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2149 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2152 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2153 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2156 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2157 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2160 * New Walloon translation
2161 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2164 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2165 --------------------------------
2168 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2169 regressions in most popular drivers
2170 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2173 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2174 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2175 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2178 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2179 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2182 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2183 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2184 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2185 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2186 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2189 * New udev module for linux
2192 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2195 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2198 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2199 --------------------------------
2202 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2203 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2204 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2207 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2208 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2211 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2212 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2215 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2218 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2219 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2220 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2221 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2224 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2225 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2226 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2227 - no support for Goom and SDL
2228 - limited text rendering support
2229 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2232 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2233 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2234 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2235 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2236 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2237 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2238 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2239 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2240 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2244 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2247 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2250 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2251 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2252 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2253 Arabic and French translation updates
2256 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2257 --------------------------------
2260 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2261 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2262 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2263 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2264 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2265 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2268 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2269 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2270 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2273 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2274 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2275 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2278 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2281 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2282 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2285 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2286 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2287 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2288 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2289 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2290 * Fix various crashes
2293 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2295 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2299 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2300 ---------------------------------
2304 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2305 See 'Access:' for more info.
2306 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2309 * Instantaneous pausing
2310 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2311 * Finer speed control
2312 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2313 * Timeshift for most medias
2314 * RTSP trickplay support
2315 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2318 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2319 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2320 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2321 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2322 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2323 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2324 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2325 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2326 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2327 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2330 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2331 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2332 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2333 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2334 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2335 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2336 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2339 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2340 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2343 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2344 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2345 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2346 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2347 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2348 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2349 * DVB scanning on linux
2350 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2351 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2352 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2353 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2354 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2355 * MTP device access on Unix
2356 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2357 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2360 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2361 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2362 Windows and Mac OS X.
2365 * Export the playlist in HTML
2366 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2367 * Better metadata handling and reading
2369 Linux/Windows interface:
2370 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2371 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2372 * Recently played items list
2373 * Interface toolbar customizations
2374 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2375 - More menus actions
2376 - Finer speed slider
2377 - Improvements on many dialogs
2378 - New dialog for plugins listing
2379 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2380 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2381 * Better integration in GTK environments
2384 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2385 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2386 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2387 * Additional usability improvements
2390 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2391 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2392 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2393 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2394 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2397 * New Maemo port with:
2398 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2399 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2402 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2405 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2406 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2407 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2408 * Support for latest iSight models
2411 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2412 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2415 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2416 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2417 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2418 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2419 The old image video output has been removed.
2420 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2421 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2424 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2432 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2433 --------------------------------------
2439 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2440 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2441 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2442 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2443 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2444 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2445 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2447 Various fixes to the following modules:
2450 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2451 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2452 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2454 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2459 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2460 ---------------------------------
2463 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2464 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2467 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2468 ---------------------------------
2471 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2474 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2477 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2478 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2479 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2480 main controller window.
2481 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2484 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2489 * Updates of other localizations
2492 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2493 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2494 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2495 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2496 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2499 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2500 ---------------------------------
2503 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2505 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2508 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2509 --------------------------------
2514 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2515 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2518 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2519 --------------------------------
2521 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2522 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2525 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2528 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2529 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2532 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2533 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2536 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2537 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2538 * Various fixed in playlist
2541 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2544 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2547 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2548 ------------------------------------
2550 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2551 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2554 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2555 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2556 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2559 * Stability fix for the video output.
2562 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2563 --------------------------------
2566 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2567 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2568 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2569 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2570 * Fixed update system bugs
2571 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2574 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2575 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2576 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2577 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2578 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2579 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2580 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2581 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2582 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2583 modern Mac OS X versions
2586 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2587 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2589 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2590 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2593 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2594 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2595 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2596 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2597 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2598 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2601 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2602 --------------------------------
2604 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2605 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2606 * Multiple bugfixes.
2609 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2610 --------------------------------
2612 * Multiple bug fixes.
2615 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2616 ---------------------------------
2620 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2621 recent to work correctly
2622 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2623 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2624 edit the ".hosts" file.
2625 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2626 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2627 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2628 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2629 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2630 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2631 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2632 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2633 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2634 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2635 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2636 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2637 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2638 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2639 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2640 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2641 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2642 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2643 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2644 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2645 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2646 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2647 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2648 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2649 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2650 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2651 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2652 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2653 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2654 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2655 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2656 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2657 and postproc modules.
2658 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2659 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2660 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2661 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2663 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2664 filter. For example:
2665 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2666 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2668 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2669 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2675 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2677 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2678 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2681 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2682 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2684 * Shoutcast TV listings
2685 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2687 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2688 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2690 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2693 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2694 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2695 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2696 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2697 * JACK audio input support
2698 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2699 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2700 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2701 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2702 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2703 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2704 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2705 (available as a separate download).
2706 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2707 * RTMP input support
2708 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2709 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2710 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2712 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2713 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2716 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2717 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2718 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2719 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2721 * APEv1/2 tags support
2722 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2723 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2725 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2726 * TiVo Series 2 support
2727 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2732 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2733 * Flash Screen Video support
2734 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2735 * DosBox Capture support
2736 * Karl Morton's Video support
2737 * limited atrac3 support
2739 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2740 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2741 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2742 * H.264 PAFF support
2743 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2744 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2745 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2746 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2747 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2750 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2751 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2752 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2753 * AQTitle subtitles support
2754 * MKV USF subtitles support
2755 * HTML-based subtitles support
2756 * MPSub subtitles support
2757 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2758 * MPL2 subtitles support
2759 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2760 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2761 * Realtext subtitle support
2762 * DKS subtitle support
2763 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2764 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2767 * Flash Screen Video support
2768 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2770 Video outputs and filters:
2771 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2772 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2773 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2774 * New puzzle video output filter
2775 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2776 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2778 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2779 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2780 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2781 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2782 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2783 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2784 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2785 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2786 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2787 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2788 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2789 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2790 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2791 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2793 Audio outputs and filters:
2794 * Replay gain support
2795 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2796 new scaletempo audio filter)
2797 * New spatializer audio filter
2798 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2801 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2802 * New RTP payload formats:
2803 * Speex voice audio codec
2804 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2805 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2806 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2807 * DCCP transport for RTP
2808 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2813 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2814 end-user suitable way.
2815 * Improved user interaction
2816 * Improved mouse gestures
2817 * Vastly improved Update checker
2818 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2820 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2821 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2823 * Improved video output features
2824 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2825 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2826 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2827 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2828 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2830 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2831 if libncursesw is available.
2832 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2833 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2834 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2836 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2837 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2838 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2839 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2840 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2841 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2842 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2843 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2846 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2847 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2848 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2851 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2852 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2853 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2854 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2855 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2856 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2859 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2860 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2870 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2871 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2872 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2875 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2876 ----------------------------------
2879 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2882 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2883 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2884 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2885 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2886 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2887 * Updated Polish translation
2890 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2891 ----------------------------------
2894 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2895 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2896 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2899 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2900 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2901 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2902 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2903 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2904 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2905 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2906 to an unexpected application termination
2907 * New Serbian translation
2908 * Updated Romanian translation
2911 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2912 ----------------------------------
2915 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2916 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2917 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2918 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2919 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2920 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2921 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2922 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2925 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2926 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2927 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2928 * Fixed AAC resampling
2929 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2930 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2933 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2934 ----------------------------------
2937 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2938 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2939 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2940 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2941 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2944 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2945 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2946 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2947 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2948 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2951 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2952 ----------------------------------
2955 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2956 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2959 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2960 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2961 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2962 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2964 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2968 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2971 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2974 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2977 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2980 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2981 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2982 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2983 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2984 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2986 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2987 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2988 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2989 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2992 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2995 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2996 ----------------------------------
2999 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3000 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3001 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3003 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3004 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3006 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3007 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3010 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3012 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3013 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3014 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3015 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3016 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3017 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3018 two different movies
3019 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3020 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3021 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3024 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3027 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3028 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3029 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3030 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3033 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3034 ----------------------------------
3036 Various bugfixes, notably:
3037 * Windows Vista compatibility
3038 * Cropping in Direct3D
3039 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3040 * RSS filter string overflow
3042 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3044 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3045 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3048 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3049 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3052 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3055 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3058 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3061 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3062 ----------------------------------
3064 Various bugfixes, notably:
3065 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3066 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3067 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3068 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3069 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3070 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3073 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3074 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3077 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3079 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3080 * Diverse usability improvements
3081 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3082 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3083 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3086 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3087 ---------------------------------
3089 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3090 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3093 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3096 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3097 --------------------------------
3100 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3103 * Support for RTSP authentication
3104 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3105 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3106 * ATSC support for DVB input
3107 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3108 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3109 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3112 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3113 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3114 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3115 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3116 * Matroska WavPack support
3117 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3118 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3119 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3122 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3123 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3124 * Improved libcaca support
3128 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3129 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3131 * Systray support in skins
3133 * Support for Apple Remote control
3134 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3135 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3136 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3137 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3139 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3142 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3143 Windows 9x/ME users:
3144 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3145 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3146 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3147 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3148 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3150 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3151 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3160 * Updates to the libvlc API
3161 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3164 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3165 --------------------------------
3168 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3169 * Support for downloading updates
3173 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3174 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3175 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3176 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3178 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3179 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3180 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3183 * Cook (Real audio) support
3185 Playlist / Services discovery:
3186 * XSPF playlist support
3188 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3191 * New JACK audio output
3194 * New video filters:
3195 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3196 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3197 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3198 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3199 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3200 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3203 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3206 * System to inform the user and request information
3207 - HTTP authentication
3211 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3212 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3213 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3216 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3217 - Improved playlist handling
3218 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3220 - Embedded Video output
3221 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3222 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3223 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3224 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3225 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3227 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3228 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3231 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3234 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3235 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3236 * Growl "Now playing" support
3239 * Ability to log to syslog
3240 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3243 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3245 * A bit more automatic testing
3248 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3249 ---------------------------------
3252 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3253 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3256 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3257 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3260 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3263 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3264 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3270 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3273 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3274 --------------------------------
3277 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3281 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3282 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3283 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3286 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3287 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3288 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3289 * GnomeVFS input module
3290 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3291 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3294 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3295 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3296 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3299 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3300 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3306 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3307 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3310 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3311 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3312 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3315 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3317 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3318 - New extended controls panel
3319 - New bookmarks window
3320 - Fixed playlist sorting
3321 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3323 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3324 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3325 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3326 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3330 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3331 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3333 - Include macro to include other files
3337 * Should now work outside IE as well
3340 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3343 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3344 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3347 The following languages were added:
3351 * Simplified Chinese
3352 The following languages were re-added:
3356 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3357 --------------------------------
3360 * Rewrite of the playlist
3362 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3363 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3364 * Preferences improvements:
3365 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3366 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3368 * Core image manipulation support
3369 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3370 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3371 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3372 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3373 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3374 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3375 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3376 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3377 * Access filter architecture
3378 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3379 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3383 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3384 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3385 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3386 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3387 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3388 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3389 * Massive Matroska improvements
3390 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3392 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3393 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3394 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3395 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3396 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3398 Decoders / Encoders:
3399 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3400 * PNG decoder/encoder
3401 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3402 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3405 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3408 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3409 * Brand new SAP module
3410 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3411 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3412 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3413 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3414 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3415 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3419 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3422 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3423 * Image file video output (png)
3424 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3425 * Improvements to wall video filter
3426 * Support for font color and opacity
3432 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3433 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3434 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3438 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3439 - Improved preferences
3440 - Improvements to the wizard
3441 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3443 - Redesigned playlist
3444 - Improved preferences
3446 - Support for multiple actions
3449 - Support for the new playlist system
3451 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3454 * Screensaver disabling fix
3455 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3456 * Support for no-decoration windows
3459 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3460 * The OpenGL video output is back
3461 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3462 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3463 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3464 is not yet available in the new module
3465 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3468 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3477 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3480 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3483 The following languages were added:
3489 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3490 --------------------------------
3493 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3494 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3497 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3498 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3499 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3502 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3505 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3508 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3511 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3512 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3513 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3517 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3519 * Support of playlist group announcement
3522 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3523 --------------------------------
3526 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3527 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3528 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3529 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3530 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3531 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3534 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3535 (Stream your desktop)
3536 * Improved DVD support:
3537 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3538 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3539 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3540 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3541 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3542 (selection of titles/chapters).
3545 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3546 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3547 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3548 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3549 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3550 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3551 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3552 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3553 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3554 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3557 * G.726 audio support
3558 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3559 * MPEG-4 text support
3560 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3561 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3562 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3566 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3567 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3568 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3569 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3570 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3571 * DVB subtitles encoder
3572 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3573 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3575 * Text track muxing for mp4
3576 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3577 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3578 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3579 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3580 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3581 * Improved ASF muxer
3583 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3584 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3585 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3588 * New audio equalizer filter
3589 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3590 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3591 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3592 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3595 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3596 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3597 with support for effects.
3598 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3599 - New filters can be streamed.
3600 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3601 - Centralized scaling and blending
3603 - "time", to display current time
3604 - "marq", to display a marquee
3607 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3608 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3609 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3610 * A few skins2 improvements
3611 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3612 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3613 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3614 * Improved CORBA control module
3617 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3618 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3619 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3622 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3623 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3624 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3627 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3628 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3629 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3630 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3631 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3634 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3637 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3638 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3641 * Server/client network synchronization module
3642 * VBrick streams fully supported
3643 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3647 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3648 --------------------------------
3651 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3652 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3653 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3654 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3657 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3658 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3659 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3660 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3661 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3662 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3663 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3666 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3667 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3668 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3669 * Improved directory access module.
3670 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3671 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3672 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3673 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3674 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3677 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3678 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3679 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3682 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3683 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3684 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3687 * Improved session announcement system.
3688 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3689 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3690 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3691 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3692 * Improved transrater.
3693 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3694 * New configuration system.
3695 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3698 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3699 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3700 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3701 * Supports scheduling.
3702 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3703 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3706 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3707 - Ability to embed video output.
3708 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3709 - Lots of improvements.
3710 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3711 - New design and set of icons.
3712 - Ability to embed video output.
3713 - Support for hotkeys.
3714 - Support for bookmarks.
3716 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3717 - Better hotkeys handling.
3720 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3721 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3722 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3723 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3726 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3727 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3728 * Improved Windows installer.
3734 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3735 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3738 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3739 ---------------------------------
3742 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3743 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3746 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3747 --------------------------------
3750 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3751 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3754 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3755 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3756 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3757 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3760 * Internal improvments
3761 * Improved import/export
3764 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3766 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3767 small and strange formats.
3769 * New MOD audio demux.
3770 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3771 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3772 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3773 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3776 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3777 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3778 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3784 * New opengl video output plugin.
3787 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3788 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3791 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3792 --------------------------------
3795 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3796 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3797 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3798 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3799 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3800 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3801 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3802 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3805 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3810 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3811 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3812 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3813 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3814 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3815 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3816 * Better Icecast support.
3817 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3818 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3821 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3822 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3823 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3824 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3825 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3826 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3827 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3830 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3831 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3832 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3833 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3834 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3835 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3836 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3837 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3838 * Preliminary RTP support.
3839 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3844 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3845 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3847 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3848 - Improvements and help in preferences
3849 - New streaming wizard
3850 - Revised Disc Open menu
3852 - Improvements of the standard pages
3853 - Support for new commands
3854 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3857 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3858 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3861 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3862 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3863 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3864 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3865 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3866 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3867 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3868 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3869 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3872 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3874 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3875 * Support for Panther.
3876 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3877 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3880 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3881 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3882 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3883 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3884 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3885 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3886 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3887 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3890 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3891 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3892 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3895 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3898 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3899 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3900 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3901 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3904 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3905 --------------------------------
3908 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3911 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3912 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3915 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3916 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3919 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3922 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3923 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3926 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3929 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3932 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3933 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3937 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3938 --------------------------------
3941 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3942 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3946 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3947 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3948 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3950 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3951 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3954 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3957 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3960 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3961 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3965 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3966 --------------------------------
3969 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3970 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3974 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3975 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3976 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3977 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3978 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3981 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3982 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3983 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3986 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3987 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3988 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3991 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3992 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3993 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3994 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3995 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3998 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3999 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4000 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4003 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4006 * Improved build system.
4007 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4008 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4009 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4010 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4013 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4014 --------------------------------
4017 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4020 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4021 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4022 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4023 * Video 4 Linux support
4024 * CD Digital Audio support
4025 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4028 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4029 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4030 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4031 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4034 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4035 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4036 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4037 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4038 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4039 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4040 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4043 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4044 * New HTTP remote control interface
4047 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4048 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4049 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4050 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4051 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4054 * New reset option for the preferences
4055 * You can set your language in the prefences
4056 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4057 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4058 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4059 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4062 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4063 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4064 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4067 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4068 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4069 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4070 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4071 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4072 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4073 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4074 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4075 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4076 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4079 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4080 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4081 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4082 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4083 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4084 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4085 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4088 * Interface localization
4089 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4090 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4091 * New full-featured Preferences window
4094 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4095 --------------------------------
4098 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4099 * support for skins at the interface level
4100 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4101 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4102 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4103 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4104 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4107 * fixed HTTP redirects
4108 * support for opening an entire directory
4109 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4110 * new video4linux access plug-in
4111 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4114 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4115 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4116 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4119 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4120 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4121 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4122 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4123 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4124 * new codec for raw I420 video
4125 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4128 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4129 (although it still misses some important features)
4130 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4133 * new HTTP output support
4134 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4135 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4138 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4141 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4144 * reorderable playlist
4145 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4146 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4147 * support for mono audio output devices
4148 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4149 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4150 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4151 * the messages window remembers more lines
4152 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4153 * http and ogg stream output options
4154 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4157 * new skinnable interface
4158 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4160 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4161 * support for FLAC audio format
4162 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4164 * network tab in the interface
4165 * "apply" handling in preferences
4168 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4169 ---------------------------------
4172 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4173 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4174 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4175 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4177 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4178 * DTS S/PDIF support
4181 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4182 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4183 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4184 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4187 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4188 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4191 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4194 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4197 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4199 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4200 * rc interface is now fully useable
4201 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4204 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4205 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4206 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4207 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4208 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4210 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4211 * support for mouse gestures
4212 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4215 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4216 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4219 * improved ID3 tag detection
4220 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4221 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4222 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4224 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4227 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4228 ---------------------------------
4231 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4232 English was set as the preferred language
4235 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4236 --------------------------------
4239 * new mouse gesture interface
4240 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4244 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4245 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4246 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4249 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4250 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4254 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4257 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4258 without the user consent
4261 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4263 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4264 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4265 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4268 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4269 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4270 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4271 * playlist enhancements
4272 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4273 * new step forward/step backward commands
4274 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4275 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4276 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4279 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4280 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4281 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4284 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4285 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4288 * native video output is working again
4289 * only commandline interface support
4290 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4293 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4294 --------------------------------
4297 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4298 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4299 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4300 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4301 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4302 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4303 and A/52 streams are supported)
4304 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4309 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4310 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4311 * VCD entry points support
4312 * VCD image file support
4315 * support for *.asf format
4316 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4317 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4318 * support for ogg encapsulation
4319 * support for raw DV format
4320 * support for *.wav format
4321 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4324 Stream discovery & playlists:
4325 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4326 * support for .m3u file format
4327 * support for .asx file format
4328 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4331 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4332 (only available with the .avi demux)
4333 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4334 * support for raw PCM data
4335 * support for Cinepak video codec
4336 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4337 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4338 * support for Xvid codec
4339 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4340 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4341 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4343 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4345 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4348 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4351 * new WxWindows interface
4352 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4353 device and the channels configuration
4354 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4355 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4356 format that VLC can play
4357 * new swedish translation
4358 * enhancements of the playlist window
4359 * new messages window to see debug info
4360 * fixed a few crashes
4363 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4364 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4365 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4366 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working