1 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
9 * The VLC plugins path can be overriden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
10 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
11 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
13 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
14 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
17 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
18 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
19 * DVB-S scanning support
20 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
21 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
22 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
23 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
24 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
25 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
26 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
27 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
30 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
31 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
32 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
33 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
34 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
37 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
38 * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
39 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
42 * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
43 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
44 * Ogg seeking improvements
45 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
48 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
49 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
50 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
51 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
52 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
53 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
54 and important cleanups and optimisations
55 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
58 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
59 * New video output for iOS platform
60 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
61 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
62 * Various vmem improvements
65 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
66 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
67 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
68 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
69 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
72 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
75 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
78 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
79 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
80 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
81 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
82 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
83 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
84 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
85 * Major rework of VoD support
86 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
87 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
88 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
89 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
90 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
91 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
94 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
97 * New capabilities for libVLC:
98 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
99 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
100 list of available audio and video filters
103 * asademux: use libass only
104 * fake: use the new image demuxers
105 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
107 * upnp: use upnp_intel
110 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
111 --------------------------------
114 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
118 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
119 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
120 and stability reasons
123 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
127 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
130 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
131 ----------------------------------
134 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
137 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
138 ---------------------------------
141 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
142 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
143 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
144 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
147 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
150 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
151 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
152 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
153 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
156 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
157 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
158 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
160 Subtitles and renderer:
161 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
162 * Mark more freetype options as safe
163 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
164 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
165 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
168 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
169 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
170 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
171 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
174 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
175 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
178 * KDE device solid actions
180 * Transcode integer overflow
181 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
182 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
185 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
186 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
187 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
190 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
191 ----------------------------------
194 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
198 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
201 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
204 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
205 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
206 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
207 * Taglib thread-safety fix
210 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
214 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
217 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
220 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
221 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
223 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
227 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
228 * Miscellaneous fixes
231 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
232 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
234 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
235 * New Asturian translation
238 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
239 ----------------------------------
242 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
244 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
247 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
250 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
251 * Various fixes for Windows
254 * New Armenian translation
255 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
256 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
259 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
260 --------------------------------
263 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
265 * Fix folders opening from the interface
268 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
269 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
272 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
273 --------------------------------
276 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
277 * fix for podcasts parsing
278 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
281 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
282 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
285 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
286 * fix m3u playlists exports
289 * fix video autoresize behaviour
292 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
295 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
298 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
301 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
304 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
305 --------------------------------
308 * Avformat fps displaying fix
309 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
312 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
313 of mono streams, especially on Windows
316 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
317 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
318 * fix console output encoding
320 Interface and extensions:
321 * Youtube and other scripts updates
322 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
325 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
326 --------------------------------
329 * New capabilities for libVLC:
330 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
331 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
332 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
333 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
334 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
335 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
336 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
337 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
338 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
339 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
340 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
341 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
342 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
343 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
344 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
348 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
349 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
350 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
351 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
352 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
355 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
358 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
359 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
360 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
364 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
367 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
368 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
369 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
372 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
373 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
374 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
375 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
378 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
379 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
382 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
383 --------------------------------
385 Important changes for users:
386 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
387 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
389 Important changes for packagers:
390 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
391 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
392 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
393 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
394 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
396 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
398 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
399 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
400 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
401 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
402 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
405 * Support for the sftp protocol
406 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
407 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
408 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
409 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
410 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
413 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
414 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
415 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
417 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
418 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
419 * Invmem module improvements
420 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
421 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
422 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
423 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
424 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
425 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
426 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
427 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
428 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
429 * Support for VP8 codec
430 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
433 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
434 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
435 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
436 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
437 * Various EGP improvements
438 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
439 * Metadata and cover art improvements
442 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
443 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
444 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
445 * Podcast images are now displayed
448 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
449 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
450 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
451 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
452 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
453 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
454 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
455 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
456 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
457 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
458 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
461 * New content extensions lua framework
464 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
465 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
466 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
467 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
468 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
469 * NEON assembly audio converter module
470 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
473 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
474 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
475 * Service discovery based on libudev
476 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
479 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
480 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
481 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
482 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
483 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
484 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
485 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
488 * New smem module, streaming to memory
489 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
490 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
493 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
495 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
496 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
499 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
502 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
503 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
504 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
505 by Andy Matuschak et al.
506 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
507 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
508 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
511 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
512 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
515 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
516 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
517 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
521 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
522 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
523 * Improved Solaris port
526 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
527 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
530 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
531 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
532 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
533 * transrate: broken since too long
534 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
535 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
536 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
537 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
538 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
539 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
540 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
541 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
542 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
543 * cddax: use cdda instead.
544 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
545 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
546 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
547 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
550 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
551 --------------------------------
554 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
556 Decoders/Packetizers:
557 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
560 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
561 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
562 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
563 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
564 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
567 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
568 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
571 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
572 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
575 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
576 and Walloon translations updated
577 * Sinhala translation started
580 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
581 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
584 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
585 --------------------------------
588 * SubRip extra styles improvements
589 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
592 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
595 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
596 increase performance and fix x264 issues
599 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
600 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
601 Russian, Slovak translation updates
602 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
605 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
606 --------------------------------
609 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
610 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
613 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
614 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
617 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
618 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
621 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
624 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
625 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
628 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
629 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
632 * New Walloon translation
633 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
636 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
637 --------------------------------
640 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
641 regressions in most popular drivers
642 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
645 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
646 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
647 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
650 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
651 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
654 * Update for appletrailers lua script
655 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
656 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
657 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
658 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
661 * New udev module for linux
664 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
667 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
670 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
671 --------------------------------
674 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
675 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
676 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
679 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
680 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
683 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
684 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
687 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
690 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
691 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
692 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
693 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
696 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
697 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
698 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
699 - no support for Goom and SDL
700 - limited text rendering support
701 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
704 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
705 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
706 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
707 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
708 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
709 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
710 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
711 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
712 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
716 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
719 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
722 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
723 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
724 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
725 Arabic and French translation updates
728 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
729 --------------------------------
732 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
733 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
734 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
735 * Fix Dailymotion access script
736 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
737 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
740 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
741 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
744 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
745 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
746 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
749 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
752 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
753 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
756 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
757 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
758 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
759 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
760 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
761 * Fix various crashes
764 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
766 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
769 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
770 ---------------------------------
774 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
775 See 'Access:' for more info.
776 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
779 * Instantaneous pausing
780 * Frame-by-Frame playback
781 * Finer speed control
782 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
783 * Timeshift for most medias
784 * RTSP trickplay support
785 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
788 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
789 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
790 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
791 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
792 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
793 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
794 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
795 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
796 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
797 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
800 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
801 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
802 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
803 * Metadata for mod files are supported
804 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
805 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
806 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
809 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
810 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
813 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
814 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
815 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
816 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
817 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
818 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
819 * DVB scanning on linux
820 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
821 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
822 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
823 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
824 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
825 * MTP device access on Unix
826 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
827 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
830 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
831 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
832 Windows and Mac OS X.
835 * Export the playlist in HTML
836 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
837 * Better metadata handling and reading
839 Linux/Windows interface:
840 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
841 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
842 * Recently played items list
843 * Interface toolbar customizations
844 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
847 - Improvements on many dialogs
848 - New dialog for plugins listing
849 - Fixed-size mode for videos
850 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
851 * Better integration in GTK environments
854 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
855 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
856 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
857 * Additional usability improvements
860 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
861 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
862 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
863 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
864 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
867 * New Maemo port with:
868 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
869 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
872 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
875 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
876 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
877 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
878 * Support for latest iSight models
881 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
882 * Surround support for PulseAudio
885 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
886 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
887 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
888 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
889 The old image video output has been removed.
890 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
891 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
894 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
902 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
903 --------------------------------------
909 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
910 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
911 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
912 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
913 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
914 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
915 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
917 Various fixes to the following modules:
920 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
921 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
924 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
929 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
930 ---------------------------------
933 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
934 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
937 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
938 ---------------------------------
941 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
944 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
947 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
948 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
949 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
950 main controller window.
951 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
954 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
959 * Updates of other localizations
962 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
963 * Lots of small bugfixes.
964 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
965 * Telnet fixes on Windows
966 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
969 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
970 ---------------------------------
973 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
975 Bunch of small bugfixes.
978 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
979 --------------------------------
984 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
985 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
988 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
989 --------------------------------
991 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
992 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
995 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
998 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
999 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1002 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1003 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1006 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1007 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1008 * Various fixed in playlist
1011 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1014 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1017 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1018 ------------------------------------
1020 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1021 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1024 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1025 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1026 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1029 * Stability fix for the video output.
1032 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1033 --------------------------------
1036 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1037 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1038 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1039 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1040 * Fixed update system bugs
1041 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1044 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1045 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1046 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1047 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1048 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1049 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1050 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1051 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1052 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1053 modern Mac OS X versions
1056 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1057 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1059 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1060 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1063 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1064 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1065 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1066 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1067 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1068 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1071 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1072 --------------------------------
1074 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1075 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1076 * Multiple bugfixes.
1079 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1080 --------------------------------
1082 * Multiple bug fixes.
1085 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1086 ---------------------------------
1090 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1091 recent to work correctly
1092 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1093 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1094 edit the ".hosts" file.
1095 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1096 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1097 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1098 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1099 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1100 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1101 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1102 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1103 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1104 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1105 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1106 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1107 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1108 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1109 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1110 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1111 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1112 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1113 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1114 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1115 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1116 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1117 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1118 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1119 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1120 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1121 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1122 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1123 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1124 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1125 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1126 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1127 and postproc modules.
1128 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1129 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1130 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1131 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1133 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1134 filter. For example:
1135 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1136 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1138 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1139 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1145 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1147 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1148 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1151 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1152 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1154 * Shoutcast TV listings
1155 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1157 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1158 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1160 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1163 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1164 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1165 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1166 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1167 * JACK audio input support
1168 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1169 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1170 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1171 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1172 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1173 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1174 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1175 (available as a separate download).
1176 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1177 * RTMP input support
1178 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1179 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1180 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1182 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1183 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1186 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1187 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1188 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1189 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1191 * APEv1/2 tags support
1192 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1193 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1195 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1196 * TiVo Series 2 support
1197 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1202 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1203 * Flash Screen Video support
1204 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1205 * DosBox Capture support
1206 * Karl Morton's Video support
1207 * limited atrac3 support
1209 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1210 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1211 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1212 * H.264 PAFF support
1213 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1214 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1215 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1216 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1217 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1220 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1221 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1222 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1223 * AQTitle subtitles support
1224 * MKV USF subtitles support
1225 * HTML-based subtitles support
1226 * MPSub subtitles support
1227 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1228 * MPL2 subtitles support
1229 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1230 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1231 * Realtext subtitle support
1232 * DKS subtitle support
1233 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1234 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1237 * Flash Screen Video support
1238 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1240 Video outputs and filters:
1241 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1242 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1243 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1244 * New puzzle video output filter
1245 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1246 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1248 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1249 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1250 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1251 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1252 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1253 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1254 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1255 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1256 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1257 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1258 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1259 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1260 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1261 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1263 Audio outputs and filters:
1264 * Replay gain support
1265 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1266 new scaletempo audio filter)
1267 * New spatializer audio filter
1268 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1271 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1272 * New RTP payload formats:
1273 * Speex voice audio codec
1274 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1275 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1276 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1277 * DCCP transport for RTP
1278 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1283 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1284 end-user suitable way.
1285 * Improved user interaction
1286 * Improved mouse gestures
1287 * Vastly improved Update checker
1288 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1290 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1291 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1293 * Improved video output features
1294 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1295 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1296 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1297 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1298 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1300 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1301 if libncursesw is available.
1302 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1303 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1304 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1306 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1307 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1308 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1309 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1310 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1311 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1312 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1313 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1316 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1317 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1318 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1321 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1322 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1323 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1324 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1325 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1326 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1329 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1330 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1340 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1341 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1342 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1345 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1346 ----------------------------------
1349 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1352 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1353 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1354 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1355 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1356 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1357 * Updated Polish translation
1360 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1361 ----------------------------------
1364 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1365 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1366 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1369 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1370 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1371 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1372 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1373 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1374 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1375 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1376 to an unexpected application termination
1377 * New Serbian translation
1378 * Updated Romanian translation
1381 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1382 ----------------------------------
1385 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1386 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1387 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1388 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1389 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1390 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1391 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1392 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1395 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1396 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1397 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1398 * Fixed AAC resampling
1399 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1400 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1403 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1404 ----------------------------------
1407 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1408 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1409 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1410 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1411 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1414 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1415 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1416 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1417 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1418 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1421 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1422 ----------------------------------
1425 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1426 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1429 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1430 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1431 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1432 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1434 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1438 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1441 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1444 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1447 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1450 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1451 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1452 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1453 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1454 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1456 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1457 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1458 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1459 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1462 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1465 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1466 ----------------------------------
1469 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1470 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1471 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1473 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1474 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1476 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1477 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1480 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1482 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1483 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1484 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1485 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1486 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1487 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1488 two different movies
1489 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1490 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1491 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1494 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1497 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1498 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1499 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1500 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1503 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1504 ----------------------------------
1506 Various bugfixes, notably:
1507 * Windows Vista compatibility
1508 * Cropping in Direct3D
1509 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1510 * RSS filter string overflow
1512 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1514 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1515 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1518 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1519 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1522 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1525 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1528 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1531 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1532 ----------------------------------
1534 Various bugfixes, notably:
1535 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1536 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1537 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1538 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1539 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1540 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1543 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1544 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1547 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1549 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1550 * Diverse usability improvements
1551 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1552 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1553 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1556 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1557 ---------------------------------
1559 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1560 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1563 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1566 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1567 --------------------------------
1570 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1573 * Support for RTSP authentication
1574 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1575 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1576 * ATSC support for DVB input
1577 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1578 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1579 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1582 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1583 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1584 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1585 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1586 * Matroska WavPack support
1587 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1588 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1589 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1592 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1593 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1594 * Improved libcaca support
1598 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1599 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1601 * Systray support in skins
1603 * Support for Apple Remote control
1604 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1605 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1606 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1607 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1609 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1612 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1613 Windows 9x/ME users:
1614 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1615 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1616 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1617 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1618 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1620 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1621 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1630 * Updates to the libvlc API
1631 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1634 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1635 --------------------------------
1638 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1639 * Support for downloading updates
1643 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1644 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1645 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1646 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1648 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1649 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1650 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1653 * Cook (Real audio) support
1655 Playlist / Services discovery:
1656 * XSPF playlist support
1658 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1661 * New JACK audio output
1664 * New video filters:
1665 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1666 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1667 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1668 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1669 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1670 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1673 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1676 * System to inform the user and request information
1677 - HTTP authentication
1681 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1682 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1683 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1686 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1687 - Improved playlist handling
1688 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1690 - Embedded Video output
1691 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1692 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1693 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1694 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1695 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1697 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1698 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1701 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1704 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1705 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1706 * Growl "Now playing" support
1709 * Ability to log to syslog
1710 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1713 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1715 * A bit more automatic testing
1718 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1719 ---------------------------------
1722 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1723 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1726 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1727 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1730 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1733 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1734 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1740 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1743 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1744 --------------------------------
1747 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1751 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1752 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1753 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1756 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1757 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1758 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1759 * GnomeVFS input module
1760 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1761 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1764 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1765 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1766 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1769 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1770 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1776 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1777 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1780 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1781 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1782 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1785 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1787 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1788 - New extended controls panel
1789 - New bookmarks window
1790 - Fixed playlist sorting
1791 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1793 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1794 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1795 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1796 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1800 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1801 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1803 - Include macro to include other files
1807 * Should now work outside IE as well
1810 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1813 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1814 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1817 The following languages were added:
1821 * Simplified Chinese
1822 The following languages were re-added:
1826 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1827 --------------------------------
1830 * Rewrite of the playlist
1832 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1833 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1834 * Preferences improvements:
1835 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1836 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1838 * Core image manipulation support
1839 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1840 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1841 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1842 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1843 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1844 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1845 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1846 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1847 * Access filter architecture
1848 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1849 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1853 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1854 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1855 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1856 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1857 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1858 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1859 * Massive Matroska improvements
1860 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1862 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1863 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1864 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1865 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1866 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1868 Decoders / Encoders:
1869 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1870 * PNG decoder/encoder
1871 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1872 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1875 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1878 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1879 * Brand new SAP module
1880 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1881 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1882 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1883 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1884 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1885 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1889 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1892 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1893 * Image file video output (png)
1894 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1895 * Improvements to wall video filter
1896 * Support for font color and opacity
1902 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1903 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1904 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1908 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1909 - Improved preferences
1910 - Improvements to the wizard
1911 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1913 - Redesigned playlist
1914 - Improved preferences
1916 - Support for multiple actions
1919 - Support for the new playlist system
1921 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1924 * Screensaver disabling fix
1925 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1926 * Support for no-decoration windows
1929 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1930 * The OpenGL video output is back
1931 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1932 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1933 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1934 is not yet available in the new module
1935 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1938 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1947 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1950 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1953 The following languages were added:
1959 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1960 --------------------------------
1963 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1964 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1967 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1968 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1969 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1972 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1975 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1978 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1981 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1982 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1983 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1987 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1989 * Support of playlist group announcement
1992 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1993 --------------------------------
1996 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1997 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1998 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1999 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2000 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2001 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2004 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2005 (Stream your desktop)
2006 * Improved DVD support:
2007 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2008 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2009 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2010 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2011 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2012 (selection of titles/chapters).
2015 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2016 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2017 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2018 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2019 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2020 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2021 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2022 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2023 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2024 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2027 * G.726 audio support
2028 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2029 * MPEG-4 text support
2030 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2031 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2032 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2036 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2037 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2038 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2039 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2040 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2041 * DVB subtitles encoder
2042 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2043 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2045 * Text track muxing for mp4
2046 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2047 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2048 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2049 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2050 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2051 * Improved ASF muxer
2053 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2054 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2055 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2058 * New audio equalizer filter
2059 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2060 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2061 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2062 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2065 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2066 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2067 with support for effects.
2068 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2069 - New filters can be streamed.
2070 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2071 - Centralized scaling and blending
2073 - "time", to display current time
2074 - "marq", to display a marquee
2077 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2078 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2079 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2080 * A few skins2 improvements
2081 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2082 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2083 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2084 * Improved CORBA control module
2087 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2088 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2089 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2092 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2093 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2094 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2097 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2098 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2099 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2100 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2101 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2104 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2107 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2108 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2111 * Server/client network synchronization module
2112 * VBrick streams fully supported
2113 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2117 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2118 --------------------------------
2121 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2122 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2123 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2124 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2127 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2128 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2129 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2130 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2131 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2132 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2133 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2136 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2137 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2138 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2139 * Improved directory access module.
2140 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2141 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2142 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2143 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2144 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2147 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2148 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2149 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2152 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2153 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2154 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2157 * Improved session announcement system.
2158 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2159 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2160 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2161 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2162 * Improved transrater.
2163 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2164 * New configuration system.
2165 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2168 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2169 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2170 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2171 * Supports scheduling.
2172 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2173 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2176 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2177 - Ability to embed video output.
2178 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2179 - Lots of improvements.
2180 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2181 - New design and set of icons.
2182 - Ability to embed video output.
2183 - Support for hotkeys.
2184 - Support for bookmarks.
2186 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2187 - Better hotkeys handling.
2190 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2191 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2192 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2193 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2196 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2197 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2198 * Improved Windows installer.
2204 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2205 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2208 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2209 ---------------------------------
2212 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2213 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2216 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2217 --------------------------------
2220 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2221 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2224 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2225 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2226 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2227 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2230 * Internal improvments
2231 * Improved import/export
2234 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2236 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2237 small and strange formats.
2239 * New MOD audio demux.
2240 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2241 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2242 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2243 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2246 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2247 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2248 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2254 * New opengl video output plugin.
2257 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2258 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2261 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2262 --------------------------------
2265 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2266 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2267 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2268 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2269 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2270 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2271 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2272 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2275 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2280 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2281 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2282 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2283 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2284 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2285 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2286 * Better Icecast support.
2287 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2288 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2291 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2292 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2293 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2294 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2295 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2296 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2297 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2300 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2301 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2302 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2303 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2304 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2305 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2306 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2307 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2308 * Preliminary RTP support.
2309 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2314 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2315 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2317 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2318 - Improvements and help in preferences
2319 - New streaming wizard
2320 - Revised Disc Open menu
2322 - Improvements of the standard pages
2323 - Support for new commands
2324 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2327 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2328 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2331 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2332 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2333 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2334 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2335 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2336 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2337 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2338 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2339 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2342 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2344 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2345 * Support for Panther.
2346 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2347 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2350 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2351 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2352 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2353 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2354 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2355 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2356 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2357 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2360 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2361 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2362 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2365 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2368 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2369 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2370 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2371 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2374 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2375 --------------------------------
2378 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2381 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2382 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2385 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2386 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2389 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2392 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2393 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2396 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2399 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2402 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2403 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2407 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2408 --------------------------------
2411 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2412 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2416 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2417 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2418 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2420 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2421 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2424 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2427 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2430 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2431 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2435 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2436 --------------------------------
2439 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2440 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2444 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2445 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2446 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2447 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2448 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2451 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2452 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2453 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2456 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2457 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2458 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2461 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2462 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2463 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2464 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2465 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2468 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2469 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2470 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2473 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2476 * Improved build system.
2477 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2478 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2479 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2480 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2483 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2484 --------------------------------
2487 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2490 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2491 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2492 * Video 4 Linux support
2493 * CD Digital Audio support
2494 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2497 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2498 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2499 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2500 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2503 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2504 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2505 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2506 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2507 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2508 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2509 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2512 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2513 * New HTTP remote control interface
2516 * 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.
2517 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2518 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2519 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2522 * New reset option for the preferences
2523 * You can set your language in the prefences
2524 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2525 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2526 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2527 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2530 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2531 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2532 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2535 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2536 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2537 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2538 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2539 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2540 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2541 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2542 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2543 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2544 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2547 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2548 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2549 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2550 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2551 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2552 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2553 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2556 * Interface localization
2557 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2558 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2559 * New full-featured Preferences window
2562 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2563 --------------------------------
2566 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2567 * support for skins at the interface level
2568 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2569 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2570 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2571 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2572 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2575 * fixed HTTP redirects
2576 * support for opening an entire directory
2577 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2578 * new video4linux access plug-in
2579 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2582 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2583 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2584 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2587 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2588 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2589 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2590 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2591 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2592 * new codec for raw I420 video
2593 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2596 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2597 (although it still misses some important features)
2598 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2601 * new HTTP output support
2602 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2603 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2606 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2609 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2612 * reorderable playlist
2613 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2614 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2615 * support for mono audio output devices
2616 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2617 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2618 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2619 * the messages window remembers more lines
2620 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2621 * http and ogg stream output options
2622 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2625 * new skinnable interface
2626 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2628 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2629 * support for FLAC audio format
2630 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2632 * network tab in the interface
2633 * "apply" handling in preferences
2636 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2637 ---------------------------------
2640 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2641 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2642 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2643 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2645 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2646 * DTS S/PDIF support
2649 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2650 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2651 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2652 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2655 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2656 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2659 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2662 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2665 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2667 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2668 * rc interface is now fully useable
2669 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2672 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2673 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2674 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2675 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2676 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2678 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2679 * support for mouse gestures
2680 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2683 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2684 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2687 * improved ID3 tag detection
2688 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2689 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2690 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2692 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2695 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2696 ---------------------------------
2699 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2700 English was set as the preferred language
2703 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2704 --------------------------------
2707 * new mouse gesture interface
2708 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2712 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2713 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2714 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2717 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2718 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2722 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2725 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2726 without the user consent
2729 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2731 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2732 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2733 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2736 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2737 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2738 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2739 * playlist enhancements
2740 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2741 * new step forward/step backward commands
2742 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2743 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2744 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2747 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2748 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2749 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2752 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2753 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2756 * native video output is working again
2757 * only commandline interface support
2758 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2761 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2762 --------------------------------
2765 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2766 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2767 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2768 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2769 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2770 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2771 and A/52 streams are supported)
2772 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2777 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2778 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2779 * VCD entry points support
2780 * VCD image file support
2783 * support for *.asf format
2784 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2785 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2786 * support for ogg encapsulation
2787 * support for raw DV format
2788 * support for *.wav format
2789 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2792 Stream discovery & playlists:
2793 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2794 * support for .m3u file format
2795 * support for .asx file format
2796 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2799 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2800 (only available with the .avi demux)
2801 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2802 * support for raw PCM data
2803 * support for Cinepak video codec
2804 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2805 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2806 * support for Xvid codec
2807 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2808 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2809 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2811 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2813 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2816 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2819 * new WxWindows interface
2820 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2821 device and the channels configuration
2822 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2823 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2824 format that VLC can play
2825 * new swedish translation
2826 * enhancements of the playlist window
2827 * new messages window to see debug info
2828 * fixed a few crashes
2831 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2832 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2833 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2834 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working