1 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 3rd party libraries (contrib):
5 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
8 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
11 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
14 * new remapping channel filter
15 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
16 * new VSXu visualization plugin
19 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
22 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
23 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
26 * fixed lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
29 * portaudio audio output
31 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
32 ---------------------------------
35 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
36 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
37 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
38 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
39 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
40 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
41 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
42 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
43 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
44 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
45 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
46 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
47 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
48 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
49 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
50 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
51 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
52 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
53 --http-crl (optional CRL).
54 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
55 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
56 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
57 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
58 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
59 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
60 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
62 Important changes for packagers:
63 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
64 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
65 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
66 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
67 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
68 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
69 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
70 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
71 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
72 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
75 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
76 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
77 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
78 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
79 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
80 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
81 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
84 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
85 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
86 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
87 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
88 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
89 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
90 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
91 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
92 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
93 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
94 * PulseAudio audio input support
95 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
96 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
97 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
98 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
99 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
100 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
101 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
102 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
105 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
106 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
107 are notably concerned.
108 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
109 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
110 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
111 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
112 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
113 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
114 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
115 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
116 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
117 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
118 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
119 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
120 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
121 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
122 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
125 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
126 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
127 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
128 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
129 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
130 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
131 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
132 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
133 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
134 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
135 * Improved support of tracker files
136 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
139 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
140 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
141 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
142 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
143 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
144 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
145 and important cleanups and optimisations
146 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
147 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
148 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
149 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
150 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
151 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
152 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
153 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
154 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
155 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
156 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
157 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
158 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
159 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
160 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
161 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
162 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
163 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
164 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
165 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
166 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
169 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
170 * New video output for iOS platform
171 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
172 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
173 * Various vmem improvements
174 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
175 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
176 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
177 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
178 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
179 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
181 Audio Output and Filters:
182 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
183 * New audio output in memory (amem)
184 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
185 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
186 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
187 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
188 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
189 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
190 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
191 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
194 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
195 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
196 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
197 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
198 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
199 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
200 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
201 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
202 * New anti-flickering filter
203 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
204 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
205 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
206 blackbox and customizable shadow.
207 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
208 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
209 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
212 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
213 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
214 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
215 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
216 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
217 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
218 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
219 * Major rework of VoD support
220 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
221 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
222 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
223 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
224 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
225 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
226 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
227 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
228 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
229 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
232 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
233 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
236 * New capabilities for libVLC:
237 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
238 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
239 list of available audio and video filters
240 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
241 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
242 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
245 * asademux, subsass: use libass
246 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
247 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
249 * upnp: use upnp_intel
250 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
251 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
252 * removal of the noise filter
253 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
254 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
255 removed in Growl's next release, too.
256 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
259 * Update of translations for most languages.
260 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
263 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
264 ----------------------------------
267 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
268 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
271 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
272 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
275 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
276 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
277 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
280 * Camtasia decoding fix.
283 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
284 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
287 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
290 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
291 ----------------------------------
294 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
295 including support for OS X Lion
296 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
297 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
300 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
303 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
304 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
305 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
308 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
311 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
312 ----------------------------------
315 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
316 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
319 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
320 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
321 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
322 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
323 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
325 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
326 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
327 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
329 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
330 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
333 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
336 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
339 * Fix quitting on Linux
340 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
344 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
347 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
350 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
351 ---------------------------------
353 Windows and Mac OS X:
354 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
357 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
358 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
361 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
364 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
367 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
369 Miscellaneous fixes in:
370 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
372 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
373 * RTP output and XML export
374 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
378 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
379 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
380 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
381 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
384 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
385 --------------------------------
387 Windows and Mac OS X:
388 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
391 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
394 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
395 * Improve Apple Remote handling
396 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
397 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
398 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
399 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
402 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
403 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
407 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
408 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
409 * New Luganda Translation
412 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
413 --------------------------------
416 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
419 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
420 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
421 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
422 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
425 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
427 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
428 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
429 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
430 * mp4 demuxer improvements
431 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
432 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
433 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
434 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
436 Miscellaneous fixes in:
437 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
438 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
439 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
440 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
441 * Configure and build system improvements
442 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
445 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
446 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
447 * New icelandic translation
450 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
451 --------------------------------
454 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
458 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
459 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
460 and stability reasons
463 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
467 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
470 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
471 ----------------------------------
474 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
477 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
478 ---------------------------------
481 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
482 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
483 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
484 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
487 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
490 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
491 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
492 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
493 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
496 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
497 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
498 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
500 Subtitles and renderer:
501 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
502 * Mark more freetype options as safe
503 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
504 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
505 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
508 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
509 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
510 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
511 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
514 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
515 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
518 * KDE device solid actions
520 * Transcode integer overflow
521 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
522 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
525 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
526 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
527 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
530 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
531 ----------------------------------
534 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
538 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
541 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
544 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
545 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
546 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
547 * Taglib thread-safety fix
550 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
554 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
557 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
560 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
561 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
563 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
567 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
568 * Miscellaneous fixes
571 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
572 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
574 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
575 * New Asturian translation
578 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
579 ----------------------------------
582 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
584 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
587 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
590 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
591 * Various fixes for Windows
594 * New Armenian translation
595 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
596 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
599 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
600 --------------------------------
603 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
605 * Fix folders opening from the interface
608 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
609 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
612 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
613 --------------------------------
616 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
617 * fix for podcasts parsing
618 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
621 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
622 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
625 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
626 * fix m3u playlists exports
629 * fix video autoresize behaviour
632 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
635 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
638 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
641 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
644 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
645 --------------------------------
648 * Avformat fps displaying fix
649 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
652 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
653 of mono streams, especially on Windows
656 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
657 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
658 * fix console output encoding
660 Interface and extensions:
661 * Youtube and other scripts updates
662 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
665 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
666 --------------------------------
669 * New capabilities for libVLC:
670 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
671 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
672 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
673 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
674 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
675 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
676 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
677 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
678 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
679 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
680 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
681 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
682 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
683 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
684 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
688 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
689 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
690 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
691 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
692 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
695 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
698 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
699 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
700 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
704 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
707 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
708 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
709 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
712 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
713 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
714 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
715 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
718 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
719 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
722 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
723 --------------------------------
725 Important changes for users:
726 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
727 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
729 Important changes for packagers:
730 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
731 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
732 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
733 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
734 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
736 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
738 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
739 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
740 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
741 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
742 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
745 * Support for the sftp protocol
746 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
747 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
748 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
749 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
750 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
753 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
754 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
755 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
757 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
758 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
759 * Invmem module improvements
760 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
761 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
762 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
763 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
764 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
765 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
766 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
767 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
768 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
769 * Support for VP8 codec
770 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
773 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
774 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
775 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
776 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
777 * Various EGP improvements
778 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
779 * Metadata and cover art improvements
782 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
783 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
784 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
785 * Podcast images are now displayed
788 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
789 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
790 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
791 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
792 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
793 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
794 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
795 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
796 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
797 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
798 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
801 * New content extensions lua framework
804 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
805 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
806 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
807 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
808 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
809 * NEON assembly audio converter module
810 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
813 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
814 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
815 * Service discovery based on libudev
816 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
819 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
820 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
821 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
822 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
823 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
824 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
825 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
828 * New smem module, streaming to memory
829 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
830 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
833 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
835 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
836 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
839 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
842 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
843 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
844 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
845 by Andy Matuschak et al.
846 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
847 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
848 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
851 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
852 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
855 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
856 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
857 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
861 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
862 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
863 * Improved Solaris port
866 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
867 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
870 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
871 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
872 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
873 * transrate: broken since too long
874 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
875 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
876 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
877 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
878 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
879 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
880 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
881 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
882 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
883 * cddax: use cdda instead.
884 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
885 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
886 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
887 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
890 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
891 --------------------------------
894 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
896 Decoders/Packetizers:
897 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
900 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
901 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
902 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
903 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
904 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
907 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
908 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
911 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
912 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
915 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
916 and Walloon translations updated
917 * Sinhala translation started
920 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
921 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
924 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
925 --------------------------------
928 * SubRip extra styles improvements
929 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
932 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
935 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
936 increase performance and fix x264 issues
939 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
940 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
941 Russian, Slovak translation updates
942 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
945 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
946 --------------------------------
949 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
950 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
953 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
954 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
957 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
958 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
961 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
964 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
965 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
968 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
969 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
972 * New Walloon translation
973 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
976 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
977 --------------------------------
980 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
981 regressions in most popular drivers
982 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
985 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
986 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
987 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
990 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
991 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
994 * Update for appletrailers lua script
995 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
996 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
997 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
998 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1001 * New udev module for linux
1004 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1007 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1010 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1011 --------------------------------
1014 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1015 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1016 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1019 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1020 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1023 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1024 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1027 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1030 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1031 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1032 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1033 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1036 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1037 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1038 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1039 - no support for Goom and SDL
1040 - limited text rendering support
1041 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1044 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1045 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1046 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1047 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1048 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1049 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1050 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1051 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1052 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1056 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1059 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1062 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1063 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1064 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1065 Arabic and French translation updates
1068 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1069 --------------------------------
1072 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1073 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1074 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1075 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1076 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1077 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1080 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1081 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1082 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1085 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1086 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1087 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1090 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1093 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1094 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1097 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1098 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1099 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1100 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1101 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1102 * Fix various crashes
1105 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1107 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1111 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1112 ---------------------------------
1116 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1117 See 'Access:' for more info.
1118 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1121 * Instantaneous pausing
1122 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1123 * Finer speed control
1124 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1125 * Timeshift for most medias
1126 * RTSP trickplay support
1127 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1130 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1131 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1132 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1133 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1134 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1135 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1136 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1137 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1138 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1139 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1142 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1143 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1144 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1145 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1146 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1147 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1148 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1151 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1152 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1155 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1156 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1157 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1158 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1159 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1160 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1161 * DVB scanning on linux
1162 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1163 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1164 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1165 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1166 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1167 * MTP device access on Unix
1168 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1169 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1172 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1173 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1174 Windows and Mac OS X.
1177 * Export the playlist in HTML
1178 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1179 * Better metadata handling and reading
1181 Linux/Windows interface:
1182 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1183 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1184 * Recently played items list
1185 * Interface toolbar customizations
1186 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1187 - More menus actions
1188 - Finer speed slider
1189 - Improvements on many dialogs
1190 - New dialog for plugins listing
1191 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1192 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1193 * Better integration in GTK environments
1196 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1197 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1198 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1199 * Additional usability improvements
1202 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1203 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1204 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1205 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1206 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1209 * New Maemo port with:
1210 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1211 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1214 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1217 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1218 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1219 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1220 * Support for latest iSight models
1223 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1224 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1227 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1228 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1229 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1230 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1231 The old image video output has been removed.
1232 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1233 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1236 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1244 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1245 --------------------------------------
1251 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1252 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1253 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1254 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1255 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1256 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1257 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1259 Various fixes to the following modules:
1262 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1263 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1264 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1266 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1271 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1272 ---------------------------------
1275 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1276 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1279 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1280 ---------------------------------
1283 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1286 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1289 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1290 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1291 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1292 main controller window.
1293 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1296 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1301 * Updates of other localizations
1304 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1305 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1306 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1307 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1308 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1311 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1312 ---------------------------------
1315 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1317 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1320 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1321 --------------------------------
1326 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1327 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1330 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1331 --------------------------------
1333 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1334 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1337 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1340 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1341 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1344 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1345 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1348 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1349 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1350 * Various fixed in playlist
1353 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1356 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1359 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1360 ------------------------------------
1362 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1363 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1366 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1367 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1368 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1371 * Stability fix for the video output.
1374 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1375 --------------------------------
1378 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1379 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1380 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1381 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1382 * Fixed update system bugs
1383 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1386 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1387 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1388 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1389 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1390 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1391 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1392 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1393 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1394 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1395 modern Mac OS X versions
1398 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1399 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1401 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1402 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1405 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1406 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1407 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1408 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1409 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1410 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1413 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1414 --------------------------------
1416 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1417 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1418 * Multiple bugfixes.
1421 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1422 --------------------------------
1424 * Multiple bug fixes.
1427 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1428 ---------------------------------
1432 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1433 recent to work correctly
1434 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1435 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1436 edit the ".hosts" file.
1437 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1438 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1439 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1440 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1441 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1442 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1443 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1444 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1445 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1446 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1447 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1448 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1449 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1450 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1451 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1452 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1453 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1454 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1455 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1456 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1457 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1458 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1459 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1460 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1461 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1462 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1463 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1464 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1465 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1466 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1467 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1468 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1469 and postproc modules.
1470 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1471 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1472 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1473 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1475 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1476 filter. For example:
1477 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1478 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1480 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1481 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1487 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1489 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1490 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1493 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1494 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1496 * Shoutcast TV listings
1497 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1499 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1500 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1502 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1505 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1506 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1507 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1508 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1509 * JACK audio input support
1510 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1511 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1512 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1513 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1514 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1515 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1516 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1517 (available as a separate download).
1518 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1519 * RTMP input support
1520 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1521 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1522 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1524 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1525 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1528 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1529 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1530 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1531 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1533 * APEv1/2 tags support
1534 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1535 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1537 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1538 * TiVo Series 2 support
1539 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1544 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1545 * Flash Screen Video support
1546 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1547 * DosBox Capture support
1548 * Karl Morton's Video support
1549 * limited atrac3 support
1551 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1552 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1553 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1554 * H.264 PAFF support
1555 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1556 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1557 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1558 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1559 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1562 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1563 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1564 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1565 * AQTitle subtitles support
1566 * MKV USF subtitles support
1567 * HTML-based subtitles support
1568 * MPSub subtitles support
1569 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1570 * MPL2 subtitles support
1571 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1572 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1573 * Realtext subtitle support
1574 * DKS subtitle support
1575 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1576 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1579 * Flash Screen Video support
1580 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1582 Video outputs and filters:
1583 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1584 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1585 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1586 * New puzzle video output filter
1587 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1588 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1590 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1591 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1592 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1593 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1594 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1595 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1596 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1597 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1598 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1599 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1600 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1601 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1602 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1603 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1605 Audio outputs and filters:
1606 * Replay gain support
1607 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1608 new scaletempo audio filter)
1609 * New spatializer audio filter
1610 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1613 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1614 * New RTP payload formats:
1615 * Speex voice audio codec
1616 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1617 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1618 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1619 * DCCP transport for RTP
1620 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1625 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1626 end-user suitable way.
1627 * Improved user interaction
1628 * Improved mouse gestures
1629 * Vastly improved Update checker
1630 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1632 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1633 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1635 * Improved video output features
1636 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1637 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1638 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1639 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1640 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1642 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1643 if libncursesw is available.
1644 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1645 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1646 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1648 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1649 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1650 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1651 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1652 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1653 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1654 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1655 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1658 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1659 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1660 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1663 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1664 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1665 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1666 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1667 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1668 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1671 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1672 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1682 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1683 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1684 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1687 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1688 ----------------------------------
1691 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1694 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1695 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1696 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1697 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1698 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1699 * Updated Polish translation
1702 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1703 ----------------------------------
1706 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1707 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1708 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1711 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1712 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1713 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1714 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1715 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1716 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1717 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1718 to an unexpected application termination
1719 * New Serbian translation
1720 * Updated Romanian translation
1723 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1724 ----------------------------------
1727 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1728 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1729 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1730 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1731 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1732 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1733 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1734 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1737 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1738 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1739 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1740 * Fixed AAC resampling
1741 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1742 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1745 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1746 ----------------------------------
1749 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1750 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1751 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1752 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1753 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1756 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1757 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1758 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1759 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1760 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1763 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1764 ----------------------------------
1767 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1768 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1771 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1772 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1773 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1774 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1776 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1780 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1783 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1786 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1789 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1792 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1793 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1794 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1795 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1796 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1798 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1799 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1800 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1801 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1804 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1807 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1808 ----------------------------------
1811 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1812 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1813 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1815 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1816 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1818 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1819 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1822 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1824 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1825 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1826 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1827 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1828 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1829 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1830 two different movies
1831 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1832 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1833 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1836 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1839 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1840 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1841 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1842 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1845 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1846 ----------------------------------
1848 Various bugfixes, notably:
1849 * Windows Vista compatibility
1850 * Cropping in Direct3D
1851 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1852 * RSS filter string overflow
1854 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1856 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1857 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1860 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1861 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1864 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1867 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1870 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1873 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1874 ----------------------------------
1876 Various bugfixes, notably:
1877 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1878 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1879 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1880 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1881 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1882 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1885 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1886 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1889 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1891 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1892 * Diverse usability improvements
1893 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1894 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1895 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1898 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1899 ---------------------------------
1901 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1902 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1905 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1908 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1909 --------------------------------
1912 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1915 * Support for RTSP authentication
1916 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1917 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1918 * ATSC support for DVB input
1919 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1920 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1921 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1924 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1925 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1926 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1927 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1928 * Matroska WavPack support
1929 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1930 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1931 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1934 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1935 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1936 * Improved libcaca support
1940 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1941 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1943 * Systray support in skins
1945 * Support for Apple Remote control
1946 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1947 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1948 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1949 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1951 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1954 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1955 Windows 9x/ME users:
1956 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1957 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1958 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1959 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1960 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1962 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1963 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1972 * Updates to the libvlc API
1973 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1976 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1977 --------------------------------
1980 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1981 * Support for downloading updates
1985 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1986 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1987 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1988 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1990 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1991 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1992 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1995 * Cook (Real audio) support
1997 Playlist / Services discovery:
1998 * XSPF playlist support
2000 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2003 * New JACK audio output
2006 * New video filters:
2007 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2008 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2009 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2010 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2011 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2012 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2015 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2018 * System to inform the user and request information
2019 - HTTP authentication
2023 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2024 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2025 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2028 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2029 - Improved playlist handling
2030 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2032 - Embedded Video output
2033 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2034 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2035 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2036 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2037 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2039 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2040 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2043 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2046 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2047 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2048 * Growl "Now playing" support
2051 * Ability to log to syslog
2052 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2055 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2057 * A bit more automatic testing
2060 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2061 ---------------------------------
2064 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2065 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2068 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2069 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2072 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2075 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2076 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2082 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2085 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2086 --------------------------------
2089 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2093 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2094 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2095 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2098 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2099 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2100 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2101 * GnomeVFS input module
2102 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2103 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2106 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2107 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2108 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2111 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2112 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2118 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2119 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2122 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2123 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2124 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2127 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2129 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2130 - New extended controls panel
2131 - New bookmarks window
2132 - Fixed playlist sorting
2133 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2135 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2136 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2137 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2138 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2142 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2143 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2145 - Include macro to include other files
2149 * Should now work outside IE as well
2152 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2155 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2156 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2159 The following languages were added:
2163 * Simplified Chinese
2164 The following languages were re-added:
2168 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2169 --------------------------------
2172 * Rewrite of the playlist
2174 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2175 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2176 * Preferences improvements:
2177 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2178 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2180 * Core image manipulation support
2181 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2182 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2183 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2184 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2185 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2186 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2187 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2188 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2189 * Access filter architecture
2190 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2191 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2195 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2196 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2197 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2198 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2199 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2200 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2201 * Massive Matroska improvements
2202 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2204 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2205 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2206 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2207 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2208 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2210 Decoders / Encoders:
2211 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2212 * PNG decoder/encoder
2213 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2214 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2217 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2220 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2221 * Brand new SAP module
2222 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2223 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2224 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2225 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2226 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2227 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2231 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2234 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2235 * Image file video output (png)
2236 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2237 * Improvements to wall video filter
2238 * Support for font color and opacity
2244 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2245 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2246 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2250 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2251 - Improved preferences
2252 - Improvements to the wizard
2253 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2255 - Redesigned playlist
2256 - Improved preferences
2258 - Support for multiple actions
2261 - Support for the new playlist system
2263 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2266 * Screensaver disabling fix
2267 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2268 * Support for no-decoration windows
2271 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2272 * The OpenGL video output is back
2273 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2274 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2275 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2276 is not yet available in the new module
2277 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2280 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2289 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2292 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2295 The following languages were added:
2301 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2302 --------------------------------
2305 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2306 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2309 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2310 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2311 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2314 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2317 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2320 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2323 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2324 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2325 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2329 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2331 * Support of playlist group announcement
2334 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2335 --------------------------------
2338 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2339 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2340 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2341 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2342 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2343 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2346 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2347 (Stream your desktop)
2348 * Improved DVD support:
2349 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2350 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2351 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2352 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2353 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2354 (selection of titles/chapters).
2357 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2358 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2359 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2360 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2361 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2362 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2363 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2364 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2365 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2366 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2369 * G.726 audio support
2370 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2371 * MPEG-4 text support
2372 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2373 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2374 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2378 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2379 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2380 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2381 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2382 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2383 * DVB subtitles encoder
2384 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2385 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2387 * Text track muxing for mp4
2388 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2389 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2390 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2391 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2392 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2393 * Improved ASF muxer
2395 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2396 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2397 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2400 * New audio equalizer filter
2401 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2402 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2403 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2404 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2407 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2408 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2409 with support for effects.
2410 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2411 - New filters can be streamed.
2412 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2413 - Centralized scaling and blending
2415 - "time", to display current time
2416 - "marq", to display a marquee
2419 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2420 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2421 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2422 * A few skins2 improvements
2423 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2424 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2425 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2426 * Improved CORBA control module
2429 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2430 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2431 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2434 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2435 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2436 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2439 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2440 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2441 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2442 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2443 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2446 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2449 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2450 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2453 * Server/client network synchronization module
2454 * VBrick streams fully supported
2455 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2459 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2460 --------------------------------
2463 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2464 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2465 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2466 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2469 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2470 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2471 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2472 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2473 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2474 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2475 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2478 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2479 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2480 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2481 * Improved directory access module.
2482 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2483 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2484 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2485 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2486 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2489 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2490 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2491 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2494 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2495 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2496 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2499 * Improved session announcement system.
2500 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2501 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2502 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2503 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2504 * Improved transrater.
2505 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2506 * New configuration system.
2507 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2510 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2511 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2512 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2513 * Supports scheduling.
2514 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2515 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2518 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2519 - Ability to embed video output.
2520 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2521 - Lots of improvements.
2522 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2523 - New design and set of icons.
2524 - Ability to embed video output.
2525 - Support for hotkeys.
2526 - Support for bookmarks.
2528 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2529 - Better hotkeys handling.
2532 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2533 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2534 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2535 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2538 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2539 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2540 * Improved Windows installer.
2546 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2547 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2550 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2551 ---------------------------------
2554 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2555 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2558 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2559 --------------------------------
2562 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2563 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2566 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2567 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2568 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2569 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2572 * Internal improvments
2573 * Improved import/export
2576 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2578 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2579 small and strange formats.
2581 * New MOD audio demux.
2582 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2583 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2584 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2585 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2588 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2589 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2590 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2596 * New opengl video output plugin.
2599 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2600 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2603 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2604 --------------------------------
2607 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2608 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2609 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2610 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2611 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2612 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2613 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2614 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2617 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2622 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2623 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2624 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2625 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2626 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2627 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2628 * Better Icecast support.
2629 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2630 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2633 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2634 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2635 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2636 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2637 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2638 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2639 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2642 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2643 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2644 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2645 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2646 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2647 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2648 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2649 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2650 * Preliminary RTP support.
2651 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2656 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2657 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2659 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2660 - Improvements and help in preferences
2661 - New streaming wizard
2662 - Revised Disc Open menu
2664 - Improvements of the standard pages
2665 - Support for new commands
2666 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2669 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2670 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2673 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2674 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2675 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2676 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2677 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2678 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2679 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2680 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2681 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2684 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2686 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2687 * Support for Panther.
2688 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2689 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2692 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2693 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2694 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2695 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2696 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2697 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2698 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2699 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2702 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2703 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2704 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2707 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2710 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2711 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2712 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2713 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2716 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2717 --------------------------------
2720 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2723 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2724 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2727 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2728 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2731 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2734 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2735 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2738 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2741 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2744 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2745 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2749 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2750 --------------------------------
2753 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2754 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2758 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2759 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2760 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2762 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2763 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2766 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2769 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2772 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2773 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2777 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2778 --------------------------------
2781 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2782 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2786 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2787 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2788 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2789 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2790 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2793 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2794 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2795 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2798 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2799 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2800 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2803 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2804 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2805 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2806 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2807 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2810 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2811 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2812 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2815 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2818 * Improved build system.
2819 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2820 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2821 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2822 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2825 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2826 --------------------------------
2829 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2832 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2833 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2834 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2835 * Video 4 Linux support
2836 * CD Digital Audio support
2837 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2840 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2841 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2842 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2843 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2846 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2847 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2848 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2849 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2850 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2851 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2852 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2855 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2856 * New HTTP remote control interface
2859 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2860 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2861 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2862 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2863 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2866 * New reset option for the preferences
2867 * You can set your language in the prefences
2868 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2869 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2870 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2871 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2874 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2875 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2876 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2879 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2880 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2881 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2882 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2883 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2884 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2885 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2886 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2887 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2888 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2891 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2892 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2893 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2894 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2895 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2896 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2897 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2900 * Interface localization
2901 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2902 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2903 * New full-featured Preferences window
2906 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2907 --------------------------------
2910 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2911 * support for skins at the interface level
2912 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2913 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2914 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2915 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2916 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2919 * fixed HTTP redirects
2920 * support for opening an entire directory
2921 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2922 * new video4linux access plug-in
2923 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2926 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2927 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2928 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2931 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2932 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2933 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2934 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2935 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2936 * new codec for raw I420 video
2937 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2940 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2941 (although it still misses some important features)
2942 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2945 * new HTTP output support
2946 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2947 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2950 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2953 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2956 * reorderable playlist
2957 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2958 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2959 * support for mono audio output devices
2960 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2961 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2962 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2963 * the messages window remembers more lines
2964 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2965 * http and ogg stream output options
2966 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2969 * new skinnable interface
2970 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2972 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2973 * support for FLAC audio format
2974 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2976 * network tab in the interface
2977 * "apply" handling in preferences
2980 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2981 ---------------------------------
2984 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2985 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2986 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2987 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2989 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2990 * DTS S/PDIF support
2993 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2994 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2995 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2996 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2999 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3000 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3003 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3006 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3009 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3011 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3012 * rc interface is now fully useable
3013 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3016 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3017 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3018 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3019 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3020 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3022 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3023 * support for mouse gestures
3024 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3027 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3028 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3031 * improved ID3 tag detection
3032 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3033 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3034 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3036 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3039 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3040 ---------------------------------
3043 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3044 English was set as the preferred language
3047 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3048 --------------------------------
3051 * new mouse gesture interface
3052 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3056 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3057 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3058 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3061 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3062 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3066 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3069 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3070 without the user consent
3073 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3075 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3076 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3077 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3080 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3081 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3082 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3083 * playlist enhancements
3084 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3085 * new step forward/step backward commands
3086 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3087 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3088 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3091 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3092 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3093 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3096 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3097 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3100 * native video output is working again
3101 * only commandline interface support
3102 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3105 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3106 --------------------------------
3109 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3110 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3111 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3112 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3113 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3114 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3115 and A/52 streams are supported)
3116 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3121 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3122 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3123 * VCD entry points support
3124 * VCD image file support
3127 * support for *.asf format
3128 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3129 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3130 * support for ogg encapsulation
3131 * support for raw DV format
3132 * support for *.wav format
3133 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3136 Stream discovery & playlists:
3137 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3138 * support for .m3u file format
3139 * support for .asx file format
3140 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3143 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3144 (only available with the .avi demux)
3145 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3146 * support for raw PCM data
3147 * support for Cinepak video codec
3148 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3149 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3150 * support for Xvid codec
3151 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3152 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3153 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3155 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3157 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3160 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3163 * new WxWindows interface
3164 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3165 device and the channels configuration
3166 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3167 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3168 format that VLC can play
3169 * new swedish translation
3170 * enhancements of the playlist window
3171 * new messages window to see debug info
3172 * fixed a few crashes
3175 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3176 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3177 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3178 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working