1 $Id: NEWS,v 1.72 2003/11/17 06:31:22 hartman Exp $
3 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.6.3:
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7 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
8 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
9 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when these are used.
10 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
11 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
14 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 audio in DVB streams.
15 * Fixed seeking support in FLAC files.
16 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
17 * Reworked DVB tuning.
18 * Better Icecast support.
22 * Support for Speex audio.
23 * Support for AAC + SBR.
25 * removed old a52, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio codecs, since we are using others now.
28 * Bug fixes / improvements in the skins (eg. "stay on top" option).
29 * Improvements to the wxwindows playlist (Sort,Search, mode buttons).
30 * Help in the wxwindows preferences window.
31 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
32 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
33 * Improvements to the Web interface.
34 * Fixes of the SAP interface.
37 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
39 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
40 * Support for Panther.
41 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
42 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
45 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams...).
46 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
47 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
48 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
49 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
50 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
53 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
54 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
55 * Improved Ogg muxing and added theora, speex and subtitles support.
56 * Theora video encoding.
57 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
58 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
59 * Preliminary rtp support.
60 * Fixes to SAP announces.
63 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
64 * Text subtitles autodetection.
65 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
66 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
67 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
68 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
69 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
70 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
71 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
74 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
75 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
76 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
77 * SAP now supports HTTP streams.
78 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
80 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
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84 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
87 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
88 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
91 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
92 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
95 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
98 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
99 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
102 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
105 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
108 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
109 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
112 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
113 ---------------------------------
116 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
117 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
121 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
122 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
123 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
125 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
126 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
129 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
132 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
135 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
136 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
139 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
140 ---------------------------------
143 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
144 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
148 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
149 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
150 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
151 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
152 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
155 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
156 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
157 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
160 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
161 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
162 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
165 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
166 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
167 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
168 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
169 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
172 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
173 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
174 * A new CORBA control plugin.
177 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
180 * Improved build system.
181 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
182 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
183 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
184 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
187 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
188 ---------------------------------
191 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
194 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
195 * Fixed large file support on Windows
196 * Video 4 Linux support
197 * CD Digital Audio support
198 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
201 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
202 * Support for OpenDML avi files
203 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
204 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
207 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
208 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
209 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
210 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
211 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
212 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
213 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
216 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
217 * New HTTP remote control interface
220 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
221 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
222 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
223 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
226 * New reset option for the preferences
227 * You can set your language in the prefences
228 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
229 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
230 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
231 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
234 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
235 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
236 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
239 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
240 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
241 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
242 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
243 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
244 * New icons by Davor Orel.
245 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
246 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
247 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
248 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
251 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
252 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
253 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
254 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
255 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
256 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
257 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
260 * Interface localization
261 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
262 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
263 * New full-featured Preferences window
265 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
266 ---------------------------------
269 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
270 * support for skins at the interface level
271 * new OSD module using Freetype2
272 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
273 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
274 input level before dropping out of date frames.
275 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
278 * fixed HTTP redirects
279 * support for opening an entire directory
280 * EOF should be detected more reliably
281 * new video4linux access plug-in
282 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
285 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
286 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
287 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
290 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
291 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
292 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
293 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
294 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
295 * new codec for raw I420 video
296 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
299 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
300 (although it still misses some important features)
301 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
304 * new HTTP output support
305 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
306 * fixed AV synchronization issues
309 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
312 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
315 * reorderable playlist
316 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
317 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
318 * support for mono audio output devices
319 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
320 * fixed several cosmetic issues
321 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
322 * the messages window remembers more lines
323 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
324 * http and ogg stream output options
325 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
328 * new skinnable interface
329 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
331 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
332 * support for FLAC audio format
333 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
335 * network tab in the interface
336 * "apply" handling in preferences
339 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
340 ---------------------------------
343 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
344 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
345 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
346 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
348 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
352 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
353 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
354 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
355 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
358 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
359 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
362 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
365 * fixed the GNU-pth support
368 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
370 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
371 * rc interface is now fully useable
372 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
375 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
376 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
377 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
378 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
379 * VLC now uses the default audio device
381 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
382 * support for mouse gestures
383 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
386 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
387 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
390 * improved ID3 tag detection
391 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
392 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
393 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
395 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
398 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
399 ---------------------------------
402 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
403 English was set as the preferred language
406 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
407 --------------------------------
410 * new mouse gesture interface
411 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
415 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
416 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
417 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
420 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
421 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
425 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
428 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
429 without the user consent
432 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
434 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
435 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
436 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
439 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
440 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
441 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
442 * playlist enhancements
443 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
444 * new step forward/step backward commands
445 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
446 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
447 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
450 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
451 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
452 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
455 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
456 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
459 * native video output is working again
460 * only commandline interface support
461 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
464 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
465 --------------------------------
468 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
469 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
470 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
471 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
472 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
473 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
474 and A/52 streams are supported)
475 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
480 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
481 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
482 * VCD entry points support
483 * VCD image file support
486 * support for *.asf format
487 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
488 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
489 * support for ogg encapsulation
490 * support for raw DV format
491 * support for *.wav format
492 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
495 Stream discovery & playlists:
496 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
497 * support for .m3u file format
498 * support for .asx file format
499 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
502 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
503 (only available with the .avi demux)
504 * support for ADPCM audio codec
505 * support for raw PCM data
506 * support for Cinepak video codec
507 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
508 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
509 * support for Xvid codec
510 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
511 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
512 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
514 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
516 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
519 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
522 * new WxWindows interface
523 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
524 device and the channels configuration
525 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
526 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
527 format that VLC can play
528 * new swedish translation
529 * enhancements of the playlist window
530 * new messages window to see debug info
531 * fixed a few crashes
534 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
535 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
536 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
537 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working