1 $Id: NEWS,v 1.77 2003/12/13 11:22:15 gbazin Exp $
3 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4 ---------------------------------
7 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
8 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
9 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
10 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
11 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
12 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
13 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
16 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
21 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
22 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
23 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
24 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
25 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
26 * Reworked DVB tuning.
27 * Better Icecast support.
28 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
29 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
32 * Support for Theora video encoding.
33 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
34 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
35 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
36 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
37 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
38 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
41 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
42 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
43 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
44 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
45 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
46 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
47 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
48 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
49 * Preliminary RTP support.
50 * Fixes to SAP announces.
55 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
56 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
58 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
59 - Improvements and help in preferences
60 - New streaming wizard
62 - Improvements of the standard pages
63 - Support for new commands
64 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
67 * Many fixes to the SAP module
68 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
71 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
72 * Text subtitles autodetection.
73 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
74 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
75 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
76 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
77 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
78 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
79 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
82 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
84 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
85 * Support for Panther.
86 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
87 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
90 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
91 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
92 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
93 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
94 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
95 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
96 * Multimonitor support (untested).
97 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
100 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
101 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
102 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
105 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
108 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
109 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
110 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
111 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
113 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
114 ---------------------------------
117 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
120 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
121 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
124 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
125 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
128 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
131 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
132 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
135 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
138 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
141 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
142 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
145 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
146 ---------------------------------
149 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
150 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
154 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
155 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
156 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
158 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
159 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
162 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
165 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
168 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
169 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
172 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
173 ---------------------------------
176 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
177 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
181 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
182 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
183 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
184 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
185 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
188 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
189 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
190 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
193 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
194 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
195 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
198 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
199 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
200 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
201 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
202 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
205 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
206 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
207 * A new CORBA control plugin.
210 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
213 * Improved build system.
214 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
215 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
216 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
217 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
220 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
221 ---------------------------------
224 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
227 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
228 * Fixed large file support on Windows
229 * Video 4 Linux support
230 * CD Digital Audio support
231 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
234 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
235 * Support for OpenDML avi files
236 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
237 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
240 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
241 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
242 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
243 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
244 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
245 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
246 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
249 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
250 * New HTTP remote control interface
253 * 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.
254 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
255 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
256 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
259 * New reset option for the preferences
260 * You can set your language in the prefences
261 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
262 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
263 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
264 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
267 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
268 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
269 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
272 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
273 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
274 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
275 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
276 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
277 * New icons by Davor Orel.
278 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
279 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
280 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
281 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
284 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
285 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
286 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
287 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
288 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
289 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
290 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
293 * Interface localization
294 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
295 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
296 * New full-featured Preferences window
298 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
299 ---------------------------------
302 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
303 * support for skins at the interface level
304 * new OSD module using Freetype2
305 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
306 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
307 input level before dropping out of date frames.
308 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
311 * fixed HTTP redirects
312 * support for opening an entire directory
313 * EOF should be detected more reliably
314 * new video4linux access plug-in
315 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
318 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
319 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
320 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
323 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
324 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
325 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
326 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
327 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
328 * new codec for raw I420 video
329 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
332 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
333 (although it still misses some important features)
334 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
337 * new HTTP output support
338 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
339 * fixed AV synchronization issues
342 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
345 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
348 * reorderable playlist
349 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
350 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
351 * support for mono audio output devices
352 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
353 * fixed several cosmetic issues
354 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
355 * the messages window remembers more lines
356 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
357 * http and ogg stream output options
358 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
361 * new skinnable interface
362 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
364 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
365 * support for FLAC audio format
366 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
368 * network tab in the interface
369 * "apply" handling in preferences
372 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
373 ---------------------------------
376 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
377 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
378 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
379 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
381 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
385 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
386 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
387 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
388 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
391 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
392 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
395 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
398 * fixed the GNU-pth support
401 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
403 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
404 * rc interface is now fully useable
405 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
408 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
409 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
410 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
411 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
412 * VLC now uses the default audio device
414 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
415 * support for mouse gestures
416 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
419 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
420 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
423 * improved ID3 tag detection
424 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
425 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
426 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
428 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
431 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
432 ---------------------------------
435 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
436 English was set as the preferred language
439 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
440 --------------------------------
443 * new mouse gesture interface
444 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
448 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
449 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
450 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
453 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
454 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
458 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
461 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
462 without the user consent
465 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
467 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
468 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
469 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
472 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
473 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
474 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
475 * playlist enhancements
476 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
477 * new step forward/step backward commands
478 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
479 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
480 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
483 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
484 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
485 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
488 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
489 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
492 * native video output is working again
493 * only commandline interface support
494 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
497 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
498 --------------------------------
501 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
502 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
503 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
504 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
505 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
506 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
507 and A/52 streams are supported)
508 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
513 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
514 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
515 * VCD entry points support
516 * VCD image file support
519 * support for *.asf format
520 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
521 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
522 * support for ogg encapsulation
523 * support for raw DV format
524 * support for *.wav format
525 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
528 Stream discovery & playlists:
529 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
530 * support for .m3u file format
531 * support for .asx file format
532 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
535 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
536 (only available with the .avi demux)
537 * support for ADPCM audio codec
538 * support for raw PCM data
539 * support for Cinepak video codec
540 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
541 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
542 * support for Xvid codec
543 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
544 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
545 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
547 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
549 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
552 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
555 * new WxWindows interface
556 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
557 device and the channels configuration
558 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
559 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
560 format that VLC can play
561 * new swedish translation
562 * enhancements of the playlist window
563 * new messages window to see debug info
564 * fixed a few crashes
567 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
568 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
569 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
570 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working